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    Asters

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 19, 2021
    September 18, 2021. These are asters in our back yard. As promised, it was a work day today, though I wasn't as productive as I would have liked. Still, I got caught up on some correspondence and writing. Otherwise, played video games. https://flic.kr/...
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    Long Sault Parkway

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 18, 2021
    September 17, 2021. A heron flies across the water of the St. Lawrence near the Long Sault Parkway, my destination in a 107 km ride I took today. It was a nice summery day so I decided to take a weekend day Friday and to work Saturday. Of course I ende...
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    Morning Fog

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 18, 2021
    September 16, 2021. This is looking out the back window to see the morning fog and rays of light from the rising sun. The camera on my phone (a Google Pixel 4) is pretty good for ordinary shots, but for low light or zooming, as in the last three days, ...
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    Sunset

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 18, 2021
    September 15, 2021. We had a brilliant red sunset today and I'm afraid this photo does not do it justice. Today was online conference day as I followed the proceedings of the Open Data summit, and also took part in a Creative Commons ethics of sharing ...
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    Redbird

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 18, 2021
    September 14, 2021. This is a quick shot through the window with my phone of a cardinal sporting his fall colours at the bird feeder. The seal in the window has failed and it's getting more and more opaque. Not sure what it costs to fix. I gave my pres...
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    Soybeans

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    | 2021365, crop, farm, ontario, soybeans, Syndicated
    September 13, 2021
    September 13, 2021. This is a pretty typical scene in the fields around here as the crops mature, a very large field of soybeans (I figured there's probably a billion individual soybeans in the shot). My ride today can after a full day thinking about a...
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    Recuse With Love

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 12, 2021
    September 11, 2021. I spotted this guy while cycling south of town, and he gave me permission to take a photo. In all I cycled around 75 easy kilometers, including a stop where I ate too much at Rockin Ronda's and more stops to record a total of 12 Tik...
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    Looking Up

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 12, 2021
    September 10, 2021. This is Charlemagne looking at the phone, self-portrait style, which is flat on the shelf. Today was moderately productive; I got some paperwork finished and did some writing. https://flic.kr/p/2moW3rs
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    The Wasp

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    | 2021365, Syndicated, wasp
    September 10, 2021
    September 8, 2021. Like this wasp, I spent the day working. The wasp was in the flowers outside the garage, I was in my home office working on a project proposal, writing newsletter items, and preparing for upcoming presentations. Oh, and I created ano...
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    Barn Raising

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 10, 2021
    September 9, 2021. I read a while back that under today's laws, traditional barn raisings would probably be illegal. But observing this effort, where a barn appears to be being built by one single person, I'm not convinced of that statement. In fact, t...
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    The Office Plant

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 8, 2021
    September 7, 2021. I've had this plant for five or six years now; it was my office plant in Moncton, and I brought it home and set it up in my home office. I would imagine my new plants for my Ottawa office are long dead. Today was a work day, back fro...
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    Dodging Rainstorms

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 6, 2021
    September 6, 2021. It was cool and rainy this morning when I set out and pictured is one of the several rainstorms I found myself trying to avoid on my ride. In all I covered 88 km cycling for the first time to Sarsfield and also to Navan. It never did...
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    Garry Fen

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 5, 2021
    September 5, 2021. We went for a shortish hike around Garry Fen near Alexandria today. The clouds were so heavy it felt like late evening, and eventually it was raining heavily. It made for a nice moody photo set (quite the contrast to our spirits). Al...
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    Fighting for the High Ground

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 5, 2021
    September 4, 2021. Lexi (left) and Julia (right) swat at each other in a dispute over the high ground in advance of tuna being dispensed. As the cat photo suggests, I made it an indoor day, and in fact, recorded five episodes of a new No Man's Sky seri...
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    The Blade

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    | 2021365, canada, ontario, ottawa, rnation, Syndicated
    September 4, 2021
    September 3, 2021. This is on display at the RedBlacks game and inscribed on it are all the season ticket holder names (I looked and ours were there). The game itself was one-sided the wrong way, but we saw enough flashes to give us hope. I also had a ...
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    Charlemagne and the Shadows

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 2, 2021
    September 2, 2021. Though there are shadows everywhere, Charlemagne has fixated on this one little bit of wall in the bathroom. Any time someone heads that way he will race ahead to get into position. Today was the day the weight of being back at work ...
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    St. Albert

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    September 1, 2021
    September 1, 2021. This is St. Albert, where I went for a brisk (24kph) ride after work today. I used up every last minute of vacation time over the summer, so I'm sitting with zero days for the first time since I started with NRC. The other big thing ...
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    Emma

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    August 31, 2021
    August 31, 2021. Yes, it's cat picture time again. This is Emma on the shelf behind my chair in the dining room. It was a pretty quiet work day; I filled out time sheets, attended an online conference, created a newsletter and met with colleagues from ...
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    Incident on Main Street

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    August 30, 2021
    August 30, 2021. Got out for a quick bike ride after work and ran across this incident on Rue Principale involving a damaged police car, a completely wrecked car, and potentially damaged bicycles and train tracks. No idea what happened, but I sent the ...
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    Family

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    August 29, 2021
    August 29, 2021. With my brother Bill and Shirley in town, we gathered for a get-together at Mum and Bernie's place. My brother Gord was also there with Shelli, along with Bill and Shirley's three children and Debbie, Bernie's daughter. It was really i...
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    RedBlacks

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    August 28, 2021
    August 28, 2021. After 666 days, the RedBlacks are back and were were there in our new (and first-time) season tickets seats. The game wasn't the best, but it was still fun. We tried the new 'Very Vegan Tacos', which were a complete fail (the problem w...
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    The Fan

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    August 28, 2021
    August 27, 2021. This is the fan on the ceiling of my bedroom. We don't really need a fan, since the house is air conditioned, but nonetheless, it is there. Today was an indoor day, which felt weird, but allowed my various bites, cuts and bruises to he...
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    Home Via Kingston

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    August 27, 2021
    August 26, 2021. This is the Via Rail trail pulling into the Belleville station. I have good things to say about Via today. The plan was to take the train to Kingston, pick up the car, return to Belleville to pick up the bike, then drive home. Except I...
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    Trail of Two Lakes

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    August 25, 2021
    August 25, 2021. View along the trail from Moira Lake to Belleville. I cycled most of it today, 44 km, missing only the top couple of kilometres toward Madoc. It was good to start but got rougher the further south I went. But it has its good spots, lik...
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    Honkers

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    | 2021365, bikepacking, Syndicated
    August 25, 2021
    August 24, 2021. In the distance you can see a number of large white birds (geese? swans?) enjoying the lake and honking up a storm back and forth with some other unseen flock. The trail was rough again today, not as bad as yesterday but still a challe...
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    Callaghan’s Rapids

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    | 2021365, bikep, bikepacking, Syndicated
    August 24, 2021
    August 23, 2021. This is the view of Callaghan's Rapids Conservation Area from the trail. It was just a slight detour on today's 50 km ride to Marmora. The river here flows over a large flat rock surface, so it's shallow enough to wade easily. In one p...
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    Ranney Gorge

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    | 2021365, bikepacking, Syndicated
    August 23, 2021
    August 22, 2021. Here I am with my bike on the suspension bridge over Ranney Gorge over the Trent River in Campbellford. Today I 'took a zero', meaning that I didn't cover any kilometers. But I still did some shopping and explored the town a bit. Tomor...
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    Campbellford

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    | 2021365, bikepacking, Syndicated
    August 22, 2021
    August 21, 2021. This is the farmers market at Campbellford, where I had a blueberry pie and blackberry refresher. Today was a very short cycling day - 12 km - as I went from the park to the motel to recharge both batteries and myself. I actually treat...
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    Drumlin

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    | 2021365, bikepacking, drumlin, Syndicated
    August 21, 2021
    August 21, 2021. This is the scene at sunset from on top of a drumlin, a large hill created by glaciation. The sun was a brilliant ruby red (the picture doesn't do it justice) because of the smoke in the air from the many forest fires. Today was anothe...
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