May 29, 2023. This heavily modified vehicle was spotted in the Metro parking lot here in town today. It has European license plates and is obviously a live-in expedition vehicle used by one of those truck/van adventurers. I tried to find this particular one online, but had no luck. Anyhow,…

May 28, 2023. We went for an ambling walk along the Mer Bleue trail today. Again, it’s good to be out in the sunshine. The water levels are still pretty high, but the forest has come to live and was particularly lust and beautiful today. I’ve started sleeping on the…

May 27, 2023. A farm with cows along the road to St. Albert. I spent a lot of the day on the cot but forced myself to get out for a short ride to St. Albert. At 16.9 kph, this is one of the slowest rides I’ve ever taken on…

May 26, 2023. This is Charlemagne having a look outside the window on the shelf where I sit in the kitchen. Another sick day, another day on the cot in the basement. https://flic.kr/p/2oF23WF…

May 25, 2023. Hard to be cuter than Julia fast asleep in her furry cave on the shelf right behind where I sit. I took a sick day today; the itch was so bad I couldn’t sit, so I lay most of the day on a cot in the cold…

May 24, 2023. This is the Starbucks near my office (‘near’ being about a kilometer away). I’m *way* behind in uploading photos, because the stupid itch continues to assail me. Working in the office really really doesn’t help with this. https://flic.kr/p/2oEZGpz…

May 21, 2023. This was the view from the old rail bridge along the Prescott Russell trail. I rode it for a short distance along my endurance-level 70 km ride mostly into a stiff breeze on a sunny but cool day. I was completely wiped out by the end of…

May 20, 2023. This is my campsite for the first night of my weekend trip, at Domaine du Sapin near Greenfield (just soiutheast of Maxville). Though it rained most of the day (and most of the night) it held off just long enough to enjoy a campfile and nice dinner.…

May 17, 2023. This is an apple tree in bloom just outside my office in the city. It was a work-in-office day today (plus two hours in a traffic jam right after) but I got quite a bit done – project closing report, online course, more corporate paperwork. Pretty tired…

May 16, 2023. This flower appeared in the tree in our front yard. We were not expecting a flower; the tree is just this scraggly bush we’ve been allowing to grow because it’s too much work to remove it – and then, suddenly, this! It appears our bush is actually…

May 14, 2023. Our walk this week took us to the Ottawa tulip festival, where we spent a cool but sunny afternoon enjoying the spring flowers. Nice win by the Blue Jays too. https://flic.kr/p/2oAzvuN…

May 11, 2023. Choir and orchestra in the Byward Market, Ottawa. I took a quick break from the conference to get more hot sauce and pasta from the European foods store at the market. https://flic.kr/p/2oA8Tmj…

May 7, 2023. A break station in the cycle for CHEO event in Ottawa. I signed up for the 70 k. ride, forgot my helmet, went and bought one, started two hours late, and rode 25 km. With all of that, still a nice day: the ride, along with a…

May 1, 2023. These are my new favourite flavours, one a paprika paste, and the other a pepper-tomato paste (I think), both from Hungary. I use them with my salmon-pasta soup, and it’s out0-of-this-world delicious. Now that my projects have concluded, I can soend my NRC time on more ordinary…

April 22, 2023. This is a train with two engines and two cars in Finch, Ontario. I thought it was going to rain all day, but instead the rain held off until evening and the result was a beautiful day for cycling (if you don’t count the 50 kph wind…