Claire 🇨🇦

@jemmscee.bsky.social

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I taught the world from my comfy corner in NS. Now widowed, retired, & past my prime. ESC & Never 51! 🇨🇦 💖 ☮️

A female ruby-throated hummingbird, in shimmering green, from behind with wings spread, zeroing in on a bright, red Lucifer crocosmia flower.
A scene from the movie, “Strange Brew” with characters Bob & Doug McKenzie sitting amid a variety of stubby beer bottles and 2-4 cases, with a map of Canada labelled as The Great White North in the background.
A Canadian flag hanging almost fully open with the greenery of the lush Annapolis Valley in the background.
Freshly cut greying hair, seen from behind.
A drawing of a woman with her hand and nails covering her face as an add for Classy Hair & Nail Salon.
A black cat lying on light sheets, claiming the bed as his own.
A historical painting depicting the Deportation of the Acadians (1755) near Grand Pré, NS.
A white planter filled with houseplants including pothos and a pink-blossoming euphorbia.
A female ruby-throated hummingbird with its bill deep into a pink foxglove bloom.
Two small potted plants, one a cactus, on a ledge with a window covered in snowy patterns in the background.
A red bird feeder tipped into the snow with a red cardinal perched on it.
A starling and a blue jay, covered in ice, on a spike with a seed cake during a blinding blizzard.
A cartoon depicting two side by side movie theatres. The first announces the movie, “Melania”, with no attendees. The second announces “Root Canals” and has long line ups.
A polar bear chewing on a bone with a red hat in the foreground snow.
A weather app showing continuous snowfall.
An owl on an electric wire.
A newspaper in a pink wrapper on the edge of a roof.
A stainless steel fork on the ground near the base of a tree, a road visible in the background.
A Blockbuster store front and sign in blue and yellow.
A “pumpkin person” made of old clothes with small pumpkins. One is painted as a grinning face with white features looking back. The figure is pulling pants up over 2 side by side small pumpkins, giving the impression of butt cheeks.
A blue jay in flight.
Two blue jay diving toward a feeder.
Three pumpkins painted for the Blue Jays; one in white, with “Let’s Go” in blue, one in orange with a Blue Jays logo, and below a white painted like the face of a blue jay. A vertical board printed “Go Jays” sits alongside them.
A white pumpkins painted to look like a baseball with Let’s Go in Blue Jays blue.
A black cat sitting on a mantle, casting a slight shadow on the light wall, behind.,There’s a violin-shaped clock ornament above and slightly out of left frame.
A blue-toned aerial view of Nova Scotia where Dimitri Neonakis and Jason Crowell flew a path spelling in cursive, “let’s go Blue Jays”.
A black & white cat grooming a black cat as they’re curled up, together.
The Bombardier airplane logo, black on white.
A white trash bag being placed in an opened trash chute.
A group of 5 cedar waxwings getting giddy on bright, red, & ice-dripping rowan berries.
Diagram instructions for assembling banker’s boxes.
A black cat, head cocked & looking down, lying on a green hassock.
A scene of multicoloured rhododendrons against a fresh, green lawn with a lily pond and willow tree.
A scene of multicoloured rhododendrons amid fresh, green grass by a pond with a willow tree.
A scene from b&w A Christmas Carol where Alastair Sim, as Scrooge exclaims, “Are there no prisons? Are there no prisons?”
Cover of Maria Ressa’s book How to Stand up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future. It is blue toned with an image of Ressa behind the white and yellow print. It also states: Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Cover, green with brown sketched images of a mother duck and her brood, & illustrated page from the book Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey.
Ornately dressed courtiers at Louis XVI th’s court, one bowing and kissing the hand of the queen while others look on.
Medieval serfs doing various tasks such as hauling heavy bundle, hoeing, and working with crops.
A puffy black & white cat staring straight into the camera.
Two white crocuses open with a bee emerging from the left-hand flower.
Cover of the book, The Boys from Brazil, by Ira Levin. The cover features squares of the same boy in red or various shades of grey.