Spike the Cat

Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec September 14 2025:

@hunterhockey @oldcanadaseries I worked in the Eatons across the road from it for a short time in the late ‘60s!

@oldcanadaseries Simpsons. Loved the downtown Toronto store; even worked there a couple of times in my youth.

If you could save only one..

Here’s a #ThrowbackThursday image to May of 2022 and the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador.

@Lighthouse_Hunt Thrilled for you! Congrats 🎉

Yes, I’m officially a Lighthouse Keeper! Lighthouse Docent Training complete.

@motelpopmachine @oldcanadaseries I remember it! (Toronto 1960s) And also a very plain chocolate covered fudge bar (not pictured).

@oldcanadaseries Omg! Treasures bar! It had a gold foil inside. Nobody I talk to seems to remember it. That was the best. Childhood memories unlocked here.

Choose one 🇨🇦

Evening duties. Closing the shutters on another day and sometimes that uncanny sense of catching a room in conversation with a different century.

This is the tiny hamlet of Leadmill near Hathersage, and it's a scene that I could stand and watch for ages, as the light shifts through the Hope Valley. Zoom in if you can, to see the swoops of land, the stone walls dividing fields, the little cottages on hawthorn-dotted lanes. There are just so many stories in these landscapes, so many lives and histories, all interwoven with the hollows and hills, and I think we are so much richer for standing awhile and appreciating them. 📍 Peak District, England

“The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.” Rumi A painting that went viral back in the day. And changed things for me so much. I wish I knew the recipe as I'd do it all the time! #womensart

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Sam Hurt.

@ythoccor @AMAZlNGNATURE thank you!

@AMAZlNGNATURE Torino: basilica di Superga e Monviso.

Italian photographer Valerio Minato waited six years to capture the perfect alignment of the moon, a mountain, and a basilica This image earned NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day, recognizing Valerio Minato’s years of planning and precision.

#California One of the many endearing features of the little Channel Island fox is their lack of fear of humans. Unfortunately, humans brought them to the brink of extinction in the 1990's due to the use of DDT, a series of subsequent ecological disasters, and introducing canine distemper. Now, a sailor's flare has set fire to Santa Rosa Island—its largest blaze in modern history—which it is feared will wipe out the pups in their dens, and set back their impressive recovery. Note to visitors: DO NOT TOUCH OR FEED THEM. This is a biologist checking a collar.

For Ukrainians, the vyshyvanka is more than a traditional embroidered shirt – it’s a symbol of culture, heritage, national identity, and unity. As we mark Vyshyvanka Day, Canada remains steadfast in its support for Ukraine and its fight for sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Thursday evening walk in Ely Country Park 🧡 No jacket needed tonight, summer weather has arrived 🌤️🙏🏻 There was a “sun-dog” by Ely Cathedral (a little rainbow on each side of the sun).

Group of young ballet dancers practising beside Vermillion Lake. Mt. Rundle can be seen in the background in Alberta in 1957. credit: library & archives of canada 🇨🇦

A comic by Lonnie Easterling

A foggy morning on the Dutch countryside.

The Walter Cup is coming to Canada 🇨🇦 Congratulations to @PWHL_Montreal on their hard-fought series victory and for becoming the first Canadian team to be crowned @thepwhlofficial champions. Photo credit: PWHL

Happy Vyshyvanka Day from our friends Alex @aliashukua and Shayba the cat in Ukraine.

Bruce Springsteen appeared on Stephen Colbert’s show tonight and COOKED Trump and his goons “I’m here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who lost his show because we got a president who can't take a joke…. and because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Stephen, these are small minded people. They got no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about”

An absolute cracker from the foreshore this afternoon 🥰 Possibly 'hastalis', is thought to be ancestral to the great white.