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The roses are having a lovely time this summer #bloomscrolling

A close up of a red/magenta rose bloom just starting to open with dappled lighting in the background

Close up of a white rose in full bloom with many more blossoms in the background

Close up of a pink rose blossom in full bloom

Photo down a row of rose bushes showing them covered in white blossoms in full bloom

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These are supposedly a weed but I couldn't bear to pull these out. Plus the bees seem to like them. #bloomscrolling

A flush of 4 petalled white and purple flowers completely filling in this garden area under our apple tree

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Best wishes from a very sleepy Granny Weatherwax this #caturday

Close up of a black cat curled up on her fuzzy bed with one paw extended toward the camera

Dragonfly's June newsletter covering film #Sinners (beware, spoilers) and new #ecofiction novels. #blues: https://buttondown.com/dragonfly.eco/archive/june-2025-on-music-conjuring-spirits-from-the/

Robert Johnson (fair use, Wikipedia), early blues musician playing guitar, smoke in background, wearing pin stripe suit

Book cover showing black and white line drawings of mountains and trees

Collage representing concept art for the film: top row has a black man's hand playing a chord on the guitar neck, woman African dancer, fields of Irish heather. Second row has a church, a crossroads, and a woman who practices hoodoo lighting a candle. Third row has sparks of fire in the night sky, fireflies at night, and a woman's vampire face with red eyes.

Two new goodies today at Dragonfly. Solarpunk anthology, Bright Green Futures, and a middle-grade chapter book, Lissa Loves Bugs. https://dragonfly.eco/indie-corner-susan-kaye-quinn-bright-green-futures/ and https://dragonfly.eco/lissa-loves-bugs-tracy-blom/. Thanks to Susan Kaye Quinn and Tracy Blom.

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Forget-me-nots and dandelions getting prettttty high toward the end of no-mow-may #Bloomscrolling

A ground level side-view of some tiny blue forget-me-not flowers interspersed with a bunch of dandelions.

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Who dares disturb her highness for a mere #caturday

Granny Weatherwax stares down the cameraman while flopped onto her side with her feetsies tucked up to her chest and belly exposed

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Our "Frost" peach tree is blooming nicely. Maybe we'll actually get some fruit this year before the deer pluck them away from us. I tried to get some pictures of the bees pollinating the flowers but they're too quick for me. #bloomscrolling #novascotia

A pink peach tree blossom dominates the foreground, framed against a deep blue sky. An out of focus bee is flying toward the blossom from the right side of the frame

Dragonfly's May's newsletter covering #ecofiction is out. https://buttondown.com/dragonfly.eco/archive/may-2025-and-when-the-peepers-peep-then-it-is/. In this issue, ChloroPhilia and interview with Cristina Jurado, the film 2073, and Clara Hume's Back to the Garden.

Face growing vines and other foliage out of its nose, mouth, eyes and hair

Flowers and trees with blue sky backdrop. Back to the Garden book cover by Clara Hume.

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Our peach tree is coming into blossom now #bloomscrolling

A young cherry tree covered in pink blossoms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BszU7zKgkhs&t=22s Congrats, Mark Carney! #CanadianElection #markcarney

#earthday2025 newsletter is out! Free to read for everyone: https://buttondown.com/dragonfly.eco/archive/april-2025-i-was-raised-among-books-making/. Celebrating the power of stories about Earth with Isaac Yuen, Hayao Miyazaki, the new Happy Land novel, and Katy Wimhurst.

An Orchid in My Belly Button by Katy Wimhurst. Book cover with a woman sprouting flowers, vines, and leaves on her body as she is tossing mushrooms, spores, and flowers behind her.

Photo of Hayao Miyazaki holding a microphone.

Book cover of Happy Land with photo of black woman with flowers in her hair, with a backdrop of blue Appalachian mountains.

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Tried making sourdough for the first time and wayyy overproofed it. Let's call it... focaccia? And it still tastes good!

slices of a flat overproofed sourdough loaf. It has some nice looking bubbles and crumb though

a sourdough loaf that has collapsed into a shapeless blob

https://dragonfly.eco/isaac-yuen-on-hayao-miyazaki-spotlight/ Celebrating #Earthday early with Isaac Yuen as we discuss the commitment to and power of stories and the ecological works of Hayao Miyazaki.

Photo of Japanese animator Hahao Miyazaki

Collage of Earth Day photos spanning Hayao Miyazaki's environmental films:
Upper left: Nausicaä in the Valley of the Wind (film) poster: Fair use
Upper right: Hayao Miyazaki by Natasha Baucas, CC BY 2.0
Middle: Princess Mononoke Japanese poster by IMDb, Fair use
Lower left: By Poster scan, Fair use
Lower right: Ocean waves in surreal filter, art by Canva

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My ebook store is finally open at https://dragonflypub.ca. Support indie authors who don't want to distribute via large corporations that buy into unfair politics. https://dragonflypub.ca. The press publishes fiction about #nature and #climate. #ecofiction

Dragonfly.eco has two indie corner interviews right now. The newest is with Katy Wimhurst: https://dragonfly.eco/indie-corner-katy-wimhurst/ The stories in the anthology An Orchid in my Belly Button savour the surreal, flirt with magical realism, and dabble with dystopia. #ecofiction #weird #magicalrealism

An Orchid in my Belly Button book cover. A women who is turning into fauna drops is in the focus.

Dragonfly.eco's March newsletter is out at https://buttondown.com/dragonfly.eco/archive/march-2025-a-book-is-not-an-isolated-being-it-is/. In this issue, my talk with Aneesa Jamal and one with Lynn Hutchinson Lee about her upcoming novella. Also some flashbacks: my first interview with Jeff VanderMeer, and what we were reading for Earth Day in 2021. And more! #EarthDay, #ecofiction.

Book cover for Lynn Hutchinson Lee's "Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens". Art of a heron, leaves, and a snake.

This month I talk with Aneesa Jamal, founder of Cogitation Club in India. The program allows climate- and Earth-based fiction to be written and illustrated by children and teens. What an amazing program! #ecofiction, #climate, #childrenslit, #picturebooksThis month I talk with Aneesa Jamal, founder of Cogitation Club in India. The program allows climate- and Earth-based fiction to be written and illustrated by children and teens. #ecofiction, #climate https://dragonfly.eco/aneesa-jamal-spotlight/