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  1. Downes

    Election Day

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    September 22, 2014
    September 22, 2014. I love elections! No matter who wins, I just feel extra happy on election day. This place - the polling place (that's it's actual name, 'Polling Place') is the core of our democracy. It's very low-tech. You are given a voting card a...
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    Frankfurt

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    September 21, 2014
    September 21, 2014. The view from inside the Air Canada lounge at Frankfurt airport, the first stop on the trip home from Saudi Arabia. Six hours completed, another ten or so to go.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1v5jFwj
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    View From The Top

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    September 21, 2014
    September 20, 2014. At the top of the Kingdopm Tower, 99th floor, the view looking south over Riyadh. In the distance you can see the Globe restaurant where we had dinner a few days earlier (and from which I took a photo of this very tower).from Flick...
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    Friday

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    September 19, 2014
    September 19, 2014. Yes, it's the same building again, but I couldn't resist after capturing this interesting effect on a nice Friday afternoon walk - the Kingdom Center Tower can be seen lighting up the Arabian desert dust in a fan reflecting the sun...
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    In a Ball Suspended in the Sky…

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    September 18, 2014
    September 18, 2014. If you look at the picture I took the other day - this one of the city skyline - and you see the round ball at the top of a skyscraper, you can see the restaurant where I shot this photo (and had a gourmet meal). Today was a good d...
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    Chinese Food

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    September 17, 2014
    September 17, 2014. My excellent hosts here in Riyadh join us for Chinese food downtown (I'd say where but I'm not exactly sure where, but it was quite near the 7-star hotel) (which I'm not in).from Flickr http://ift.tt/1u1J7G7
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    Cityscape

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    September 17, 2014
    September 16, 2014. Jet lag day. Slept a bit, had a meeting, and went out for a short walk in the evening, when I was able to take this shot of Riyadh.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1mfxdFU
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    Riyadh

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    September 17, 2014
    September 15, 2014. Spent the entire day in an airplane flying from Bogota to Frankfurt to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. After a longish stay in customs, I enjoyed a high-speed drive along miles of empty highway to my hotel, seeing only the occasional billboa...
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    El Dorado

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    September 14, 2014
    September 14, 2009. Today I spent the day at El Dorado airport in Bogota. Flew here this morning from Pereira, flying out this evening headed for Riyadh. It's a nice airport, and now I know it intimately.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1BEzSMX
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    Plaza De Bolivar

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    September 14, 2014
    September 13, 2014. Just one of many beautiful photos I took during an all-day 18.5 km walk all through Pereira today; I can't wait to share them all.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1qUtnlV
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    Hummingbirds

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    September 14, 2014
    September 12, 2014. The last day of the conference. Watched a talk by Diego Leal, took part in a panel, then spent some time at the botanical gardens at the university having lunch and then taking pictures of hummingbirds.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1sP...
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    All The World’s A Stage

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    September 12, 2014
    I took this photo just before my presentation in Pereira today, and used it as my closing slide, to underline the idea that people associate and create and share on their own, in a self-organized sort of way, just as was happening right outside the co...
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    Pereira

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    September 12, 2014
    September 10, 2014. This is the view across the street from my hotel in Pereira, Colombia, where I'm presenting at the 'Desconectado' conference. It has been difficult uploading photos from here so I'm a bit behind.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1qQXgCb
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    New York

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    September 11, 2014
    September 9, 2014. I spent the nine hour layover in New York walking up Broadway from Penn Station at 32nd Street up to the top of Central Park at 105th Street.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1BvOZYY
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    The Office in Morning

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    September 10, 2014
    September 8, 2014. I knew this would be my only real time to take a photo in a very busy day, wall-to-wall meetings and work, as I prepare for my trip and tie up loose ends.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1AyKquK
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    Bumper Crop

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    September 7, 2014
    September 7, 2014. Quiet day indoors, lost of rest to recover from last week and get ready for the next coupld weeks, which will be busy. Hence this photo from my front garden featuring a bumper crop of coneflowers and brown-eyed susans.from Flickr ht...
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    Haze

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    September 7, 2014
    September 6, 2014. Farmland seen from Homestead Road on the last 30 degree day just half an hour or so before the cold front came through and pushed away the summer haze. Beautiful day for a ride.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1AnRpX8
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    Cat and Keyboard

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    September 5, 2014
    September 5, 2014. This is why I can't get any work done at home. Alex is now attracted by the sound of typing, which means to him that it's time to jump on my desk to be petted.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1xmPWV3
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    Lunch

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    September 4, 2014
    September 4, 2014. This is a typical lunch I eat when I'm in my office. It's composed of one pepper, one carrot, four small tomatos, a small tin of flavoured tuna, an unsalted spice mix, and some curry powder, mised with 4 tuna tins of water (also use...
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    Krups

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    September 3, 2014
    September 3, 2014. So shiny it hurts. This is a Krups coffee maker on display in Sears, the twin of the new coffee maker we just bought to replace the old one (the electronics didn't survive the camping trip)(yes we take a coffee maker camping). Obvio...
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    Chicken Thighs

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    September 2, 2014
    September 2, 2014. Back in town, back at Costco, looking at massive quantities of food. I'm not eating chicken these days buy I did buy bulk frozen farmed salmon (farmed, because when we fish from the wild, we can't be trusted not to overfish until it...
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    Garage

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    September 1, 2014
    September 1, 2014. Back at home and running errands - this view is of my garage as seen through the front windshield of my car (yes those are rain drops on the screen). I don't really like the garage; it wasn't well-constructed, and the roof is fallin...
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    Baskets

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    August 30, 2014
    August 30, 2014. We stopped by at Island Traditions Store - with the big basket out front - near Richmond on highway 2. The baskets, I discovered, are actually made out of white ash, and consequently are much nicer than I had expected.from Flickr http...
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    Andrea Looking for Fish

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    August 30, 2014
    August 29, 2014. Quiet day at the campsite. We walked up the coast to the creek, which was currently blocked by a sandbar, causing the fish in the stream to vacate and hide somewhere.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1qSpopn
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    Inuksuit

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    August 29, 2014
    August 28, 2014. People have alwways built inuksuit at North Cape but this year they proliferated in the hundreds for some reason ('inuksuit' is the plural of 'inukshuk') Beyond you can see the famous kilometer long cap of North Cape, covered with sea...
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    Oyster Creek Bridge

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    August 29, 2014
    August 27, 2014. View from the bridge as I cycled 120km to Richmond and back. This would be at the 99km mark of my ride. It's one of my favorite sights on the island and I always look forward to it.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1pq3JFP
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    Port Elgin

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    August 29, 2014
    August 26, 2014. Bridge in Port Elgin, a pretty little town we visited detouring around construction on our way into town to feed the cats. OK, it's not so pretty. But it could be!from Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/14886754879
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    Harvest

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    August 26, 2014
    August 25, 2014. An Island farmer pilots his John Deere Harvester in a grain field just off Mill Road, one of the sights I was treated to on a quick 60km ride to O'Leary and back. Another sight was Hackeney Road, a PEI Heritage Road (ie, sandy and dif...
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    Miscouche

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    August 25, 2014
    August 24, 2014. The Church of Jean the Baptist at Miscouche, PEI. This is the church I tried to photograph the other day. Now, enjoying a day of rest after yesterday's ride, I was able to capture the image.from Flickr http://ift.tt/1wrK8cn
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