Bryn Robinson, PhD

@brynphd.com

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A creative and curious sort, writing poetry and photographing all the birds on Wolastoqey lands. UNB PhD '10. Wife, stepmom, she/her. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️☕️ Campfire Notebook: brynphd.com Book Reviews: @theseaboardreview.ca

Hand-painted sign in Yarmouth NS, portraying a Victorian-era woman riding a cart pulled by two harnessed lobsters. As one does. On the cart also sits one giant lace-up ankle boot.
A wood cutting board with five pastries sitting on checkered wax paper.
GIS map of Saint John with neighbourhoods blacked out that are experiencing a power outage on a hot sunny day
Blue and white Coleman lunch box with “Saint John Sexual Health Centre, 28 Richmond St” written in Sharpie on top.
Napoleon Dynamite slapping his brother Kip in the face.
A tiny airport at night, as seen from the plane.
Maude Flanders exclaiming, “Won’t someone think of the middle-aged white men?”
A smol toad in a smaller frying pan on a pink and white towel. The toad is mouth open with its strangely large tongue protruding out. The caption underneath is in brackets and says, (violent gag).
A black and white photo of the U St station on the DC Metro in June 2019. The ceiling is curved and indented like an ice cube tray. The train runs along the right hand side to the vanishing point, exaggerated in effect by the ceiling. More joyous is the lack of Nazis patrolling the concourse.
Mr Crabs squinting at a chalkboard that says “0 days without nonsense”.
Mocking SpongeBob meme with the text “Just a cold” over his head.
A panoramic photo of 100 toy dinosaurs painted with greenish-black glitter paint, then wrapped with different colours of embroidery floss. The colours run from white, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, indigo. With a few rainbow and biro/ace thrown in 😊
Selfie of two people in sunglasses and hats on a sunny morning in front of a yellow Elections Canada sign.
People sitting on couches and comfy chairs in a cafe with pink walls and white ceilings as two men prepare a microphone for an open mic night.
A splendid yellow warbler on an apple tree resplendent with white blossoms.
Shot of tan and black deer hair caddis dry fly on a tiny #16 hook in a vise, with blurred supplies on table in background.
Four used records, clockwise from top: Kenny Rogers “The Gambler”, The Moody Blues “Long Distance Voyager”, Bonnie Raitt “Sweet Forgiveness”, and Boney M “Night Flight to Venus”.
Dark Montreal on a #8 hook. A claret-coloured fly with a brown and white turkey wing.
Woman with short hair sits at table, demonstrating fly tying (with a TV screen showing close ups of her vise behind her).
Glittery body dry fly with white poly yarn wing and post, with hackle parachute.
Close to 70 people in a room with stone walls and pillars painted with green hops. A man on a stage introducing films on a screen behind him.
A grey and white Boston Terrier puppy gnawing on my left hand.
Text reads: The Saint John Harbour Bridge will be reduced to one lane of traffic in each direction starting March 32, 2025 to allow for the continuation of multi-phase work on the project. During this work, the on-ramp and off-ramp from Chelsey Drive will also be closed to traffic. Delays are expected for traffic in both directions approaching the bridge during this period.
An olive green and gold bead head woolly bugger in a vise up close, with blurred supplies in background.
A piñata of Blue the Dog, of “Blues Clues” fame.
Cast of “Under the Umbrella Tree”, a Canadian children’s show from 1987-1993. The picture is the human lady, Holly, with three anthromorphic puppet roommates: an iguana named Iggy, a blue jay named Jacob, and a gopher named Gloria. Together they lived in an Ottawa suburb.
Harrison Ford as Richard Kimble in “The Fugitive” scene where he’s wearing a green bowler and trying to weave through the Chicago St. Patrick’s Day parade unnoticed.
100 toy dinosaurs arranged on laminate floor. They are painted a green-gold shifting glitter top coat over matte black.
White plate with portion of Steak and Guinness pie and whipped potatoes.
The Littlest Hobo - German Shepherd/Husky cross - points his nose to a door in a building on fire, as a firefighter follows him through the smoke.
A dry fly in a vise with various supplies blurred in the background. The fly is on a dark #12 hook with yellow tail, gold foil body with reddish bushy feathers secured with brass wire and white duck feathers as wings. It’s a weird critter.
The Wolastoq River feeding into Saint John Harbour at low tide, facing the Harbour Bridge. The sky is bright blue and there are shiny grey rocks with black seaweed.
A nymph fly held in a pair of pliers. It has an olive green vinyl ribbed body, neon green tag behind a brass bead head and white yarn jutting from the top.
A toy T-Rex painted black on cardboard. Brush soap, black paint, and brushes lay behind the dino. Behind all this is a wicker basket of 99 more toy dinosaurs, all painted black.
Storefront of The Write Cup, white walls with black doorframe and black painted “header” that says Bookstore Cafe in white serif font. Sandwich board written in red marker: Now Open! Same People Different Place! Welcome.
Young bald eagle, brownish with outstretched wings, flying against a bright white sky.
A series of matte black painted toy dinosaurs on a blue and white checked tablecloth on a dark brown dining room table.
A tired forty-something standing outside a hospital, waiting for their ride home with splinted wrist raised to camera.
Series of toy dinosaurs painted matte black on a piece of corrugated cardboard.
Closeup of one of 60+ toy plastic dinosaurs being upcycled for an art project. The one in focus is yellow with a long snout and a grimace. Behind it is a green spiky one. Then the horde is blurry.
A streamer fly in a vise. The hook shank is wrapped in silver flat foil with a spiral silver rib. The wing is two strips of yellow tail fur sandwiching a strip of red tail fur. The head is black thread and glossy from the sealant.
Tiny brown stonefly for fly fishing in a vise, with blurred supplies in background. It has a white and brown wing from grizzly hackle feathers pulled against the grain to make a curved “wing”, a brown body, and a fuzzy collar made from the same feathers.
An olive green fly in a vise, with lots of hairs sticking out to make it look “buggy” to a trout. In the blurred background is a plastic tote of fly tying materials.
Picture of two donuts to depict possible winter weather in the Maritimes on Thursday, February 13. The left donut is glazed and the caption reads, “Freezing Rain: Glaze of ice” and the right donut has rainbow sprinkles and a caption reading, “Ice Pellets: Sprinkles of ice”. The top of the photo states: Freezing Rain vs Ice Pellets. And now I’m hungry.
Artist trading card ink doodle of an astronaut floating in space, holding up one arm and hand to block a pencil eraser. Some of space around the eraser and in a bottom corner has already been scrubbed.
Artist trading card of Moo Deng. The Pygmy hippo baby is drawn in black ink and Copic markers (yellow, grey, pink-red). She is facing the viewer with open mouth and joyous expression. Three hearts float around her head and body. Her name in Thai is written below.
Artist trading card with a black ink, Copic marker, and pencil crayon sketch of a sassy black-capped chickadee on a branch, looking back at the viewer with a gleam of defiance in its eye. The background is a gradient sky of red (bottom) to yellow to blue (top) - colours of the New Brunswick flag.
Man in a blue suit standing at a podium with a maple leaf on it, on the phone with his left hand and holding a blank white card in front of his face with his right. Four Canadian flags are behind him.
Reversing Falls Bridge in Saint John on a rare sunny day. Blue sky with clouds, full green trees in foreground.
Ink sketch of human heart. Above it are the words, “Fix your”, and below it, “or die”. So together it reads, “Fix your heart or die.”
White-breasted nuthatch standing perpendicular to pine tree, with blurred greenery behind it. It curves its neck up and stares at me, posing so well.
Homer and Bart in the dark on the couch, looking possessed. Homer is patting the couch, welcoming the viewer. In this meme, the Bears logo is on Homer, the Saints logo is on Bart, and the Jets logo is on the lamp. They are all looking at the Patriots, who couldn’t even lose tonight to get the number 1 draft pick and just fired their coach, too.
The famous Onions from NYU Listserv fame; a dappled dachshund wearing bespoke chainmail, being held up by tattooed arms, and giving epic side eye.
Saint John Harbour. The foreground has the Harbour Lights tree lit up, with about 8 sparkling white puffs of fireworks in the clear sky above it.
Chocolate cheesecake with whipped cream and ganache rosettes and candy tree sprinkles.
A map of Poland with various yellow plan icons and a red sleigh with three reindeer flying north of Warsaw. Screenshot of the FlightRadar app, with the “airplane code” as R3DN053, flight path as North Pole (XMS) to North Pole (XMS) and aircraft type as “Sleigh”, and registration number as HOHOHO. Says it departed 29:34 ago and will be arriving in 1:12.
Dry fly in vise. A curved hook with black and gold body, white nylon yarn wing, grizzly hackle, and black head.
A tiny green and yellow Santa hat and a yellow, orange, and red wraparound sweater, crocheted. Each on a tiny coat hanger attached to a card; one says “Haus of Gecko”, the other, “The latest in crested attire”.
Acrylic painting of a blue-violet octopus with peach tentacle undersides floating in a starry green galactic sky.
Tiny pencil sketch on brown Kraft note of a woman’s lips and bottom half of her nose. Between her teeth she clenches a lit match, whose flame extends almost the length of the frame.