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    Fry Thyme

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 4, 2021
    March 4, 2021. There was a time when Ottawa was well-known for its chip wagons. These wagons (trailers, really) dispensed greasy thick-cut well-salted french fries that were to die for. We're past that now, but there's still a good representation of se...
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    Shelf Cat

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 4, 2021
    March 3, 2021. This is Charlemagne resting in a nook just behind my chair in the kitchen. It's a place where he can be secure but close to where things are happening. Today was day 2 of the furnace issues, but I think we have them sorted out. Otherwise...
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    Lexi and the RedBlacks

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 3, 2021
    March 2, 2021. It's a cat photo, so you know my day was disrupted. The goblins of technology attacked us today, making it a bit stressful. When I woke up it was cold and the furnace wasn't running. We also had issues with the wifi. The scale started re...
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    Woodpecker

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    | 2021365, casselman, Syndicated, woodpecker
    March 1, 2021
    March 1, 2021. I spotted this very large and healthy woodpecker along the Nation River on my daily walk. Today was a good day: I started by giving back-to-back presentations to different groups, both of which went well, then I successfully ran a gRSSho...
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    The Subdivision

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 28, 2021
    February 28, 2021. This was taken from my walk today, looking across the tracks at the new subdivision. When we moved here this was all forest. Obviously I preferred the forest, but we still live in a rural area just a short walk from other forests and...
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    Birch and Branches

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 27, 2021
    February 27, 2021. I went out snowshoeing again today, paused to take a photo, and pitched forward as the snow gave out. I found myself trapped and unable to get up, my legs pinned by the snowshoes wedged in cement-like snow. "I've fallen and I can't g...
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    Behind the A&W

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 26, 2021
    February 26, 2021. If you're going to stack bread trays, why not stack them all fit together squarely? Anyhow, this was the view behind the A&W near the Costco on Ogilvie Road. After a couple of days off, I got my regular walk in today. I also made...
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    Emma

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 25, 2021
    February 25, 2021. This is Emma on the upper landing preening for the camera. It was another indoor day today because I was expecting a package that never came (new shoes for biking season, so there's no rush). I recorded a couple of videos today, one ...
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    Two Spruce

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 24, 2021
    February 24, 2021. We had a third straight day of snow and I made it an indoor day today, taking a photo of these two spruce in our front yard after supper in the evening. I cleared up some remaining issues with my gRSShopper configuration but mostly s...
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    Snow and Cedars

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 22, 2021
    February 22, 2021. It snowed pretty much all day today. This is a shot of some neighbourhood cedars in the snowfall, taken on my daily walk. Today was reasonably productive: I did a video session, wrong a blog post, and read a bunch of things/ But my e...
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    Larose Forest

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 21, 2021
    February 21, 2021. We went snowshoeing in Larose Forest this afternoon, our longest of the season at 4.5 km on a beautiful sunny and not-too-cold day. This looks as if it would be a one-in-a million catch of a pine cone, but I looked around and saw two...
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    White Trees

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 20, 2021
    February 20, 2021. No need for any photos today beyond this one I took in the first 30 seconds of the day. This is what it looked like outside when I woke up this morning. I did not sleep at all well last night, as a result of taking the wrong pill. So...
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    The 4802

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 19, 2021
    February 19, 2021. This train, which proved to be much shorter than I thought it would be, passed by in the snowstorm just as I was heading out for my walk. I spent the entire day today attending the Canada School of Public Services data Conference, at...
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    Dead Tree Walking

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 18, 2021
    February 18, 2021. It's hard when the tree in your front yard dies but this household made the best of it. I spent part of today walking around the Gloucester area listening to a government data conference and taking this photo. It was that kind of day...
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    Pipes

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 17, 2021
    February 17, 2021. I revisited our local construction site. The mystery deepens. That's a lot of pipes for a few houses. Anyhow, work continues despite the cold and snow. For me, it was a full day focused on Research Ethics Board duties. It makes for a...
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    The Railway Bridge

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 16, 2021
    February 16, 2021. Today was a grey day in all respects with a winter snowfall and dull light washing out all colour. This photo from my walk is of the railway bridge leading into town, just barely visible behind the trees. It wasn't an especially prod...
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    The Imminent Storm

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 15, 2021
    February 15, 2021. The big storm so far exists more in theory than reality, but the signs of it were in the sky as I took my daily walk today. It was a good day today, I got three major tasks off my desk, which qualifies it already as a successful week...
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    The Old Homestead

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 14, 2021
    February 14, 2021. This was spotted along the trail to the Old Homestead, a bit of a clearing in the south part of Warwick forest, where we went snowshoeing today. We were out about two hours and did 3.8 kilometers, which Strava assures us is our longe...
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    Taskmaster

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 13, 2021
    February 13, 2021. This guy sits on my desk and reminds me to keep working. He wasn't very effective today as I took a rest day for the most part, doing a few posts but mostly playing video games. Another very cold day, too cold really to enjoy a walk....
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    Charlemagne versus the Ledge

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 12, 2021
    February 12, 2021. The stairs leading down into the basement have a ledge along one side. It's easy for Charlemagne to walk onto it, but then he gets stuck. He can't turn around, and he can't jump down, so he stands there and wails. I had a meeting tod...
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    Café

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 11, 2021
    February 11, 2021. This is a Presse Café at the base of four office buildings at Commerce Place, right next to the Costco. When I look at a place like this I can imagine that there's a whole world inside - the people who work there, the regulars who ar...
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    Optimist Park

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 10, 2021
    February 10, 2021. This is an oak tree in Optimist Park, exactly one block from our house, and a frequent point on my daily walks. I wish it had a different name; I'm not a fan of service clubs naming parks after themselves. Today was unexpectedly fun ...
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    Three Trees

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 9, 2021
    February 9, 2021. These three trees have looked perfectly ordinary every other day but today they contrasted perfectly with the sky as I went by on my daily walk. A better day today, even though I still felt off-kilter from yesterday. But I figured out...
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    Playing With Emma

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 9, 2021
    February 8, 2021. Not such a good day and I didn't go out so we have a photo of me playing with Emma in the evening. The day began with back-to-back meetings, each of which required a presentation with slides, and while one went fine the other did not....
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    Cedars

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 7, 2021
    February 7, 2021. We went snowshoeing in Warwick Forest (north side) this afternoon, about 15 km south of Casselman. There's a nice stretch of the trail that ruins through a thick stand of cedar, something you don't see that often any more. It was only...
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    The Bridge at St-Albert

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 7, 2021
    February 6, 2021. I drove down to Embrun to spend the afternoon visiting family today and all seems well at the Gregoire homestead. On the way back I took a detour looking for photos and stepped out for a bit in St-Albert. It was miserably cold and win...
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    Wagon

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 5, 2021
    February 5, 2021. This is a wagon at the side of a local antique store about a kilometer away form our house. Today I had the whole day to work on coding, and it's a good thing, because it's really hard to debug data returned from an API with fetch. I ...
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    Urban Wildlife

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 4, 2021
    February 4, 2021. A typical black Ottawa squirrel hides in the tree as I walked past getting some exercise while Andrea did the rounds at the Costco over lunch. It was a nice day today, not too cold, and while I wasn't overly productive I got in some m...
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    Ice Wine

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 4, 2021
    February 3, 2021. I was back out snowshoeing today. These are grapes (maybe) growing on the fence along the railway tracks, well and truly frozen. With cron working properly I turned my attention to the harvester again, cleaned up logging and error not...
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    Playing With Emma

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    February 4, 2021
    February 2, 2021. This is Emma seen from the self-portrait mode on my phone, looking toward our kitchen ceiling. She's almost totally black, except for that distinctive chin patch and collar. I wasn't able to get out today but in addition to a couple o...
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