Grace Seybold

@graceseybold.bsky.social

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Author, copy editor, gardener, small goblin in a strange world. she/her

A small jade deer pinned to a museum display board
Posting from play-now-my-lord ME: hold up. you see that? train's been through here FRIEND: how can you tell ME: tracks. they're not fresh, maybe 60, 80 years old FRIEND: no chance it'll come back, then ME: don't be so sure. That's well within their lifespan... and they're highly territorial
A hand holding a light grey snail shell and a dark grey fossil ammonite, nearly the same size.
A snowy footbridge with dramatic shadows. The bay is entirely frozen all the way to the island on the horizon.
Downwards view of bare tree past photographer's leg
View through bare branches at a stone building, from about the safe height as its roof. The photographer's other hand is gripping a branch.
A view out through bare branches at a neighbourhood street in late autumn, from about five metres up
A hatching turtle about the size of a human fingertip, in the bottom half of its shell, with its head fully retracted.
View from up in the branches of a maple tree whose leaves are mostly golden yellow. Tree is afflicted with tar spot fungus and coral spot canker. An empty running track is visible below.
View downwards from a height of about five metres in the branches of a maple tree. The photographer's knee is visible braced against a branch.
A view looking up at the thin upper branches and canopy of a mostly green maple tree, in the evening.
A view downwards from about five metres up a maple tree, showing the lower branches and the ground below. There are autumn leaves scattered on the ground. The maple is afflicted with tar spot fungus. The photographer's bare legs and black shoes are visible.
A view down through the branches of a maple tree to a park and sidewalk about five metres below. The photographer's foot is visible in the shot, braced on a branch.
A Google query of "can I drink ginger ale that a house centipede fell into" followed by an AI Overview saying "No, you should not drink the ginger ale. Even though house centipede bites are not dangerous to humans, ingesting them can expose you to pathogens and parasites that can be harmful, such as the rat lungworm Angiostrongylus cantonensis. To be safe, it is best to discard the beverage."
A golden stone displaying chatoyance.
A woman is sitting cross-legged with her hands folded in her lap. A small brown bird is perched on her knee, eyeing the plastic container of pasta salad beside her.
Google Street View image of the North Railway Station in Bucharest
Screenshot of the GeoGuessr end screen showing a perfect score (5000 points) with my guess being 88 meters from the spawn point, the North Railway Station building in Bucharest.
The corner of a raised garden bed containing some rather wilted cucumber vines, out of which a chipmunk is poking its head
Bridge going into Montreal from the west, maybe at Dorion, I forget. Big red metal arch thing.
Five cobs of baby corn, three still in their husks, on a counter with paring knife for scale
A Google Street View image of a somewhat ramshackle house on a rural road in Laraquete, Chile. Two fluffy white dogs stand at the top of the steps, looking at the camera.
An ad for the TV show Due South, showing Paul Gross as Constable Benton Fraser, a Mountie, and his half-wolf companion Diefenbaker, played by a husky whose name I don't know
A few dozen undersized bulbs of garlic, stems still attached, laid out to dry on sheets of newspaper
Four bowls of fresh raw food on a table: mixed purple and yellow beans, peas, gooseberries, and black raspberries, plus a small yellow zucchini sitting on the rim of two of the bowls.
A bathroom sign forbidding something involving a hand, a toilet, and an icon that looks like a startled ghost.
A yellow bean that has grown partly doubled, with two tips growing from one stem.
A plastic basket of yellow beans, red beans and snow peas
Two gooseberry bushes, full of ripe red gooseberries, stand against faded grey-painted siding. Bright yellow and red blanketflowers grow between them.
Part of a community garden bed planted with corn, the largest stalks of which are about half a meter tall
Three rows of bok choy growing in a garden. They are crowding each other slightly; a hand for scale shows them about the size a finger and thumb can stretch apart.
A yard sale table featuring a hand-painted Montreal Canadiens logo
A yard sale table featuring two Montreal Canadiens jerseys and a Boston Bruins baseball cap.
A woman in a blue top, an N-95 and glasses looks with mild surprise at the green dragon curled on her shoulder while sitting in the audience of a convention hall.
Twitter post from Alexander C. Image: a hotel coffeemaker with raw chicken and a slab of butter inside. Text: "I'm traveling for work and instead of eating a fancy dinner out, I've decided to cook a cheaper meal in the hotel room. Even though the hotel room didn't have a kitchen, I managed to use the coffee machine to cook chicken with butter and garlic. Although my company allows me to expense dinner while traveling, I wanted to save money because I know that every dollar counts on the P&L. It's the little things that get you promoted. #work #money #hotel #coffee #promotion #careeradvice"
A large hand-carved spoon made of maple, with a handle that has a twist halfway along and then ends in a dragon's head. It is held in a woman's hand resting on a grey marble table, with dishes and a banana in the background.
A handmade basswood box, with a sliding lid carved in rosettes, partly open to show a bunch of pencils
Poem: At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border by William E. Stafford This is the field where the battle did not happen, where the unknown soldier did not die. This is the field where grass joined hands, where no monument stands, and the only heroic thing is the sky. Birds fly here without any sound, unfolding their wings across the open. No people killed—or were killed—on this ground hallowed by neglect and an air so tame that people celebrate it by forgetting its name.
A hand holds a crudely carved wooden turtle with an oversized head and flattened shell
A rectangular basswood pencil box with the ends not yet attached. The lid is elaborately carved with overlapping circles and partly slid open. A simple leaf design is carved around the sides. The box stands on a sheet of newspaper and a bottle of glue can be seen in the background.
A hand holds together the four long sides of a rectangular basswood pencil box with elaborate carving on the lid. The lid is partly slid back showing the grooves that it fits into in the sides.
A piece of basswood 20cm by 7.5 carved in a pattern of seven overlapping rosettes
A frame from the Simpsons, with Homer sporting a Quebec flag, Bart next to him with an Alberta flag, and Marge behind with a Canadian flag. Homer is saying "Back you Americans! Nobody threatens Canadian sovereignty but me and maybe Alberta!"
A piece of basswood 20 cm long and 7.5 cm wide, chip-carved with a design of five overlapping rosettes.
A grocery store vegetable fridge with handwritten labels indicating the national origins of the vegetables: zucchini from Canada, bell peppers and green onions from Mexico, cucumbers and lettuces from the USA.
An instruction sheet showing how to plant potatoes in a grow-bag: put dirt and potatoes in the bottom of the bag, keep adding dirt as the plant grows, and when it's mature, you can pull the potatoes out through the window at the bottom.
The same carved wooden fish, nailed to a wall beside a window and wrapped in a windowshade pull-cord
Hand holding a 10cm cleat carved from maple in the shape of a head-down fish
The Japanese cartoon character Gudetama, an anthropomorphic fried egg, pulling a slice of bacon over itself as a blanket and saying "five more minutes"
The Drake meme redone with the character Zathras from Babylon 5. Top text in Impact font with Zathras looking away: "Using the dusty old Drake format"; bottom text in Babylon 5 font with Zathras pointing to it: "Using the shiny new Zathras format"
The map from a chocolate box, showing the flavours caramel, hazelnut, hazelnut, hazelnut, hazelnut, coffee, orange, hazelnut, raspberry, and hazelnut.
A screenshot of a video titled "Derivative as a concept" and showing images of a straight line labelled "slope" and a curve with a tangent line labelled "dy/dx" and "Derivative!" The subtitle reads "So be very, very excited."
A pair of hand-carved maplewood salad tongs holding a clementine
A screenshot of a Khan Academy math video, showing two graphs with the title "Limits of composite functions: internal limit doesn't exist" and asking the student to determine the limit of g of h of x as x approaches negative 1. The subtitle says "So your temptation might be to give up at this point," because Sal understands me.
An angled scraping spoon hand-carved from maple, lying on a table. The handle is carved with decorative curved lines and the letter C.
A maple branch about 50 cm long, split lengthwise for two-thirds of the way down its length, with the split wedged open by a crosswise wedge. It is lying in the steam of a boiling pot on a kitchen stove, being slowly steamed open to increase the angle of the split.
A wooden box about 15cm wide, partly open to show rows of wooden teeth and a felt tongue inside.
A screenshot of an email saying "Here are the form and the invoice." A Gmail grammar-check pop-up incorrectly suggests correcting "are" to "is".
A baby turtle emerges open-mouthed from an egg the size of a person's thumbnail