Willow

@willowsword.bsky.social

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Physicist, mathematician, computer programmer, radiation protection professional, teacher, and school administrator so far. Mother. Wife. Canadian Gen X. Interested in nature and music. Concerned about climate change and social justice.

Rose bush with numerous red roses in front of a wooden dividing wall with numerous small metal buckets containing yellow and orange marigolds. A metal frog is attached to the wall at the top right. On the cement patio stones is a grey elephant flower pot with pink flowers.
Japanese painted fern with ostrich fern in the background
Magpie photo taken in Lake Louise, AB in April 2026.
Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada in April, 2026 with tourists walking on the thin ice despite warning signs. Picture has a shadow of my finger on the left.
Bleeding heart plant just starting to flower.
Orange lichen on a boulder.
Banff Springs Hotel from across the Bow Falls.
Dinosaur bones
Mount Robson, BC.
Raven in front of a snow covered mountain.
Black-billed Maggie on a coniferous tree. Iridescent blue visible on the wings.
Daffodils emerging from the soil. A few crocuses too.
Night flight incoming to #YYG (Toronto), 2024.
Solar light in the snow.
Apricot poodle with stuffed hydrogen leaning across a grey couch.
Apricot poodle on stairs resting his chin on a stuffed hedgehog which has its nose just about chewed off.
Fabler Björn of Ikea fame has taken control of my remote instead of playing with the dog.
My old VIC20 in its original (well worn) box with a number of games.
Apricot poodle sitting onbthe stairs after a home groom.
A wet apricot poodle with long curly hair hanging down over his right eye. Appears betrayed.
Indiana Jones replacing the golden idol with a bag of sand in two panels. The first panel has Jones labeled, "Me, as a teenager" and the idol, "My parents [sic] vodka". The second panel has the bag of sand labeled as water.
Sunset in West Point, PEI, Canada with lighthouse and people in the distance.
Cairns terrier / miniature schnauzer dog in a woods with cedar litter and fallen trees.
Our tabby on his cat tree.
Crow and bald eagle
Crow and bald eagle
Crow flying around a bald eagle perching on an electrical pole.
Goldflame honeysuckle blooms and leaves in front of a brown fence.
A video of almonds in an air fryer, where one is jiggling around, and then two more do, and then the 3 of them stop moving. I have a weird sense of humour. I thought it was funny.
A fly that looks like a bumble be on a pink clemantis.
White feather hosta, solar light, and aother green hosta at night.
Standard issue cat in a sunbeam.
Daffodil
The missing piece of gluten free coffee cake.
Standard issue cat in a grey bed backbiting by a sunbeam..
3 little purple crocuses.
Some yellow crocuses with tulips coming up but not blooming.
Fully bloomed yellow crocuses, purple ones on their way to blooming, and some tulip leaves just coming up.
Herb garden and calla lilies.
Standard issue cat enjoying a sunbeam, resting on the base of a scratching post, beside a pet bed.
Apricot poodle side eye.
Home-made vanilla cheesecake with gluten-free graham cracker crust, whipped cream, a caramel sauce on a Hite plate.
Two small, brown mushrooms in a bed of moss, with small twigs in the foreground. Cedar trees and spruce in the background.
A wooded path with bright but diffuse sunlight. The forest floor is green and includes moss. Cedar trees are visible, and some of their fronds are orange.
Five white mushrooms, four with black slimy edges.
Unknown orange fungi along with lichen on a fallen branch.