An exciting free talk by past APS speaker Sally Hurst! This time she'll be discussing the opalised dinosaur fossils of Lightning Ridge. This is a free event!

Facebook event: https://business.facebook.com/events/1074313864739466/
Homepage: https://www.foundafossil.com/events

Her November talk on the Found a Fossil project was fascinating, so I'm sure this one will be as well!

Texas is freaking out and Alberta has 10x the cases per capita ??

Measles in Texas 505 in population of 30,503,301 (2023 est)
0.001 %

Measles in Alberta 46 in estimated 4,96,0097 (2024 est)
0.01 %

http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2019/06/vintage-edmonton-television-cfrn-tv.html

I would die to go to The Three Sisters, in #Alberta, #Canada . The #CanadianRockies are simply stunning. I'm in love with Canada.

I had forgotten how poignant the movie Brokeback Mountain was until my professor, today, started talking about the novel by Annie Proulx and the movie directed by Ann Lee (2005). That was the year when the same-sex marriage law was passed, both in Canada and in #Spain. It allowed couples of the same sex to legally enjoy the same rights and responsibilities as heterosexual couples.

When I watched the movie back then, I was shocked. It was unthinkable to see two rough men exploring their emotional and sexual orientation in the midst of a hostile dominant homophobic culture. #LGBTQ+phobia destroys human beings, and this novel/movie sends an important message that still resonates nowadays: no one should suffer for loving someone else, no one should feel guilty for who they are. We all need to feel accepted, we all need to feel supported, and we all need to feel loved without fear.

Photo by Lisa Bourgeault: https://www.pexels.com/photo/three-sisters-mountain-with-reflections-on-river-11521734/

A little #ForestFloor vignette from yesterday afternoon. There is no fresh green here, yet, though Aspen and Willow catkins are bursting out and should soon be flowering, leaves and non-woody plants will follow..
Meantime #WildflowerWednesday #WildflowerHour will have to settle for the resilient leaves of Pink-flowered #Wintergreen Pyrola asarifolia against a backdrop of beautiful #lichen on a fallen bit of birch trunk. #LichenSubscribe #BorealForest #Alberta #Canada #spring #SolaceInNature

The Red Deer population may be a bit too politically blue but the city itself often does good things.

"The City of Red Deer will no longer use social media platform X as a regular communication tool starting May 1"

I hope frozen water counts for #WaterWednesday

An image from 2022 of the infamous Abraham Lake in #Alberta #Canada with its frozen methane bubbles trapped just below the surface.

The bubbles from my understanding are a result of organics buried in the lake bed after it was created by the nearby manmade dam. This place has unsurprisingly become a huge photo attraction as a result.

April 9, 1979 and For the Love Of God, Go See The Bill Evans Trio From New York at Vintage Edmonton:

http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2025/04/april-9-1979.html

That’s the way the money goes, pop goes the measles!

From the same time as the B+W shots (though it probably matters not at all, I shoot the B+W photos that way, rather than converting in editing) another calf, still curious but trying to act tough! #Calves are super frisky, curious, #cute
#animals #BabyAnimals #spring #CountryLiving #Alberta #Canada

So now boards won't be able to reprimand or remove any a$$hats no matter what they say or do. The province can do it without any justification whatever though. I don't imagine that could lead to corruption (more) at all though.

#AlbertaUCP #UCPfail #UnitedCorruptionParty #SchoolBoard #Alberta

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/alberta-moves-restrict-public-boards-203354611.html

#Western #Canadian Select is now a mere $12 in the black for #Alberta

In case there were ANY Albertans left wondering how Danni's Sure-Fire Quick-Drawing Grovelling Tour paid off;

it didn't.

In fact the only thing that really resulted is her showing everyone just how little she and the #UCP deserve to be in Canada at all, freely, anyway.

Alberta's Big Oil cleanup bill estimated between $45 to $130 billion dollars. Indigenous people and taxpayers to pay the price for Big Oil's greed. #Indigenous #Canada #Alberta #bigoil #environment #tarsands
First Nation launches legal ac...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/first-nation-launches-legal-action-over-alberta-oilsands-cleanup-fund-1.7501246

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xPwu0v81mgM&si=O2jhOUdXuK-OCjJO

Danielle Smith's plan to destroy #Alberta #HealthCare

Traitorous pseudo-Canadian, Danielle Smith, demands “unfettered” access to pipelines going west, east and north. She has plans to tighten the “Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act” so federal employees will not be able to gather data on Alberta's carbon emissions. #bigoil #daniellesmith #canada #alberta #tarsands #pollution #globalwarming https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/danielle-smith-sends-message-that-carney-will-win-allowing-her-to-continue-undermining-canada/article_5ec556c5-e6f0-45ec-8f80-cccc3df81bce.html

April 8, 1931 and the Alleged 'Rabbitcat' Is An Actual Kitty at Vintage Edmonton:

http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2025/04/april-8-1931.html