Gary Roberts

@paradoxus.ca

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Cycling, walking, science, reason, cats, dogs, ramen. Mostly vegan, sometimes vegetarian, periodically pescatarian. 🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦 #accessibility #A11y #yyj #victoriaBC

A plate of Singapore-style noodles, with vegetables and shrimp, very golden in colour and looking delicious!
At the corner of Yonge and Wellesley Streets in Toronto, my favorite noodle bar is completely boarded up uncovered with graffiti, now closed permanently. The restaurant's signage hangs above the boarding displaying its name, Not Just Noodles. A group of people stand to the right, waiting for their walk sign to change.
A view of my Scrabble tiles, in which I scored a bingo by getting rid of all 7 letters to spell the word ASPIRIN on my next turn. The video then pans to a travel Scrabble board with a few words already played by my partner and me, then pans to the left to take in the view of the Salish Sea, a cruise ship in the distance, with lots of cyclists, pedestrians, kite surfers and people just out and about enjoying the sunshine and sea breeze.
Sunlight shines into a basement bedroom, highlighting a wood headboard and blue and white cushions and pillows, and illuminates an otherwise dark room. The window blinds create a horizontal shadow effect on the far wall to give an overall Zen look to the bedroom.
A large pelican is cruising from the right of the video to the left, searching for food possibly. The video does not represent the actual size of the bird, which was quite huge as we watched it from around 20 ft away.
My partner and I with the Salish sea in the background
A pint of hazy IPA in front of me on the bar, alongside my Kobo eReader, as I settle down for a relaxing evening at my local.
A golden sunset on Vancouver Island with a lonely tree in the foreground and the sunset's warm light reflecting on the Salish Sea.
A peacock with a long colorful tail perches on a sequoia tree branch in Beacon Hill park. Another male peacock to the left and on the ground is looking up at the tree. In the foreground and to the left, a peahen appears on the scene and is looking up at the peacock on the branch.
Zebedee, a 5-month-old Maine coon mix cat sits on a rug in my friend's living room and stares at me as I sit on the couch and point my finger at him. at this point in our relationship he seems unsure of me, but over time he became a little buddy whenever I was cat sitting for my friend
A darkened landscape provides the perfect canvas for a thin red sky in the background as the sun sets on Vancouver Island, BC.
The refried beans have started to thicken and at this point you can taste it regularly and add more salt, pepper, and other spices until you get the perfect taste and texture for the mix.
The beans are now simmering in the stock for 2 minutes.
Add two cups of cooked Romano beans (or pinto, chickpeas) and 1 Cup of stock to the pan along with the onion and garlic and reduce the heat until simmering.
I chopped half a medium sized onion and three cloves of garlic, minced, and sauteed them in a pan with some olive oil until the onion started to brown.
A group of carolers sit at the local cafe, the moka house, playing music and singing festive songs on the patio, for patrons and passersby in cook street village.
Five Christmas cards stand in a row on a mantel above a black-painted fireplace. Artwork can be seen on the walls, as well as some armchairs, a floor lamp, and side table. Some large green dieffenbachia leaves are peeking out from an alcove corner of the living room.
Two homemade lighter cases, one orange, one pink, stand on a glass coffee table. The cases look like caricatures of human faces with big eyes and big lips and various piercings. The pink case has a Bic lighter fitted inside already
A hummingbird feeder hangs from a black metal pole in the backyard. Just to the left of the feeder is a young deer staring right at me from maybe 10 feet away, in among the rhododendrons and heather growing in a raised garden area.
Walking past a cafe in my neighborhood the other evening and a group of peahens are outside; two are preening themselves on the sidewalk while three or four others are on top of a bistro table, watching me as I walk by.
A Christmas tree filled with ornaments and lights stands in the corner of my living room, bringing warm light into the home on evenings when night falls more quickly, and you can hear the wind blowing outside.
A business card for a new Indian grocery store in our neighbourhood. The information on the card reads Masala Mart, Telephone 778-321-1294. Address, 1010 Fort St Victoria BC.
Two French presses containing sliced mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, garlic, and chili peppers, completely submerged in brine and ready to ferment over the next week or so.
Waves crashing onto the shore down by the Salish Sea this evening. My partner can be seen starting out at the sea, wearing a green jacket, as I pan my phone camera to the right.
Purple sweet potatoes on a shelf in a grocery store. The store's label on the shelf claims that they're a Product of Canada, but the label's small print on each potato reads: Product of USA.
A thick tree trunk can be seen on the left of the photo with sunlight shining on it in the early evening. The scene then the expands towards a black lamppost forward the middle of the scene and a green lawn in the distance.
Three friends stand side by side as they fly kites, of the same shape and design, at Clover Point, Victoria BC. The kites are flying in a synchronized arial display that's quite impressive.
A view of the full moon in the morning, from a kitchen window with blue sky and some trees, and a partial view of building to the left side
As the sun sets this evening, it's orange glow can be seen reflected in the sea.
A rectangular planter on my front deck containing five small shoots of basil planted a few weeks ago.
A screenshot of posts related to trending for Mike Johnson. The first two posts are very similar in the way the content is formatted, as are the handles, or usernames, for the two users, in that they both follow a very similar formatting (l-una9.bsky.social and p-rincess5.bsky.social). They look suspiciously like bot accounts.
A beautiful stained glass window in the British Columbia legislature building. According to the text beneath the BC coat of arms in the window, it was installed to celebrate the golden jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. On the left and right sides of the stained glass window there are some animals native to BC displayed. A bear, a sea otter, some salmon, a bald eagle, a moose, a cougar, and an orca. The upper left hand pane of glass is not displayed, so I don't know which type of animal was depicted there.
my partner and I at a viewpoint at the top of Stony Hill in Cowichan Bay. In the background you can see a dead tree stump, the wake of a small boat on the water, and Salt Spring Island in the distance, all seen from a high elevation.
A large horse chestnut tree in Cook Street Village, Victoria BC. the tree has a thick trunk with huge branches and a very large base that you can see as it pushes up from the ground.
A close up photo of a western tiger swallowtail butterfly that landed on a geranium flower on my deck. The butterfly has striking black and yellow striped wings with a flash of blue and orange towards the tail end of the wings.
A view of Mount Baker in the distance, as seen from Oak Bay, with a beautiful blue sea in between, and a sail boat on the horizon. There are white clouds forming above Baker that look like a larger version of the mountain's silhouette.
A single, lonesome plant with pink flowers grows up from a small crack at ground level beside a grey concrete wall. The rest of the ground area is also grey concrete and so at first glance it seems the environment is desolate and inhospitable to anything that grows. Yet life manages to gain a foothold and survives against all odds.
A freeze frame of a video in which a faun appears and approaches the doe, its mother, as she munches on leaves.
A video of a female deer across the street, munching on some horse chestnut leaves. A pedestrian walks by on his phone and glances briefly at the deer before continuing without missing a step.
A photo of me, from the 80s, holding my newborn niece in my arms. My hair colo6r was very ginger then!
A theatre stage arranged as a living room from the 1960s, with authentic looking furniture, décor, and burnt orange walls. Very mid-century looking.
A plant pot on a kitchen windowsill containing multiple sundew plants. There are flies already caught in the sticky hairs on the leaves of the sundews. Great plants to have around to help reduce the number of fruit flies in the kitchen!
A wooden crate filled with sticks of all shapes and sizes displays a sign reading "Stick Library" and a cutout shaped like a dog's paw. The photo was taken back in February 2020. Any dog could take a stick and bring it down to Spiral Beach, Victoria BC, for a fun time.
A solitary peacock stands on the rooftop of the Rexall drugstore and Canada outlet post in Cook St village. The Peacock has its head held high as it gazes into the distance from its vantage point.
A handmade, wooden signpost bearing the words Galloping Gosling, carved and painted into the wood. Stumbled upon the sign on a hard-to-find, small side trail, just off of the much larger Galloping Goose regional trail in Metchosin, Vancouver Island.
A screenshot of the search bar in the lower left hand section of Windows Taskbar which normally displays a graphic depicting whatever global or international event it is on any given day. Today for Earth Day 2025 the search bar is completely empty of a graphic depicting the event.
A large round boulder is tucked in amongst larger rocks, some of which are covered with patches of orange lichen, that form part of a breakwater at Clover Point, Victoria, BC. The boulder has a friendly-looking smiling face chiselled into the outward facing side of the boulder.
An extremely narrow and old street in the walled, fortified city of Kotor, Montenegro. A couple of wood framed windows can be seen on the side of one of the stone walls of a building in this ancient town, as tourists walk around and gaze up at the beautiful old homes.
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A cute and colourful street scene filled with restaurants, cafes, and people walking along a tiled pedestrian precinct.
A golden retriever looks out from a second-floor balcony above a bicycle shop, with its two front paws hanging over the edge of the balcony, as it watches life go by one evening in Victoria, BC.
Looking out through a window from the inside of a Toronto Victorian row house we used to live in. Sunlight shines through the stained-glass in the window, creating a mix of light and shadow. Some balloons can be seen outside, when looking through the window, that a friend had purchased for my partner's birthday that day. The balloons are black, and one of them has the word "BITCH" written in white letters.
Screenshot of a tweet by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which he thanks America for their support, for this visit, and @POTUS personally.
An homage to a chance encounter, written on a stone tablet that reads as follows: "IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT, 24 of May 2015 Ok, he's here now! That was too close for comfort. He was definitely curious, it actually became quite amusing the way we circled each other at 50 yards or so. He with his big lens, me feigning casual disinterest. It lasted a good 15 minutes, felt like an eternity, that funny circle dance, stalker and prey We won you and I! He tired first and rode off. Byeee! Our secret safe another day." The stone tablet, with it's story written with a marker pen on the flat surface of one side, was then left with the rest of the detritus on the beach at the Leslie Street Spit, Toronto. I found it in August 2015. The beach is made completely of time- and storm-worn bricks, cinderblocks, rebar, and other construction waste, and is used as a dumping ground for this type of material.
A tube of wood filler and a spatula can be seen on top of an unfinished bistro tabletop attached to a black metal tubular bistro table base. The gaps between the wooden boards need to be filled with putty, then sanded and finally stained to finish it off.
A view of the bar at Bartholomew's pub where my Kobo is on the bar, along with a beer and an "I Just Voted sticker".
A view of an intersection in Victoria BC, where traffic lights, the sky, cars' rear lights, and reflections of the pub's string lights on the inside of the window all combine to make a colorful scene.
16 jars of homemade salsa lined up on the kitchen counter, next to the stove. 8 jars of regular salsa, and 8 of mango salsa, that we canned this afternoon.
Clouds in the sky, lit from underneath by the setting sun, shine with an orange glow and can be seen reflected in the waters of the Victoria Inner Harbour. This photo was taken through the window when I was inside at the Flying Otter Bar and Grill.