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    Cordwood

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    | 2021365, firewood, Syndicated
    March 20, 2021
    March 20, 2021. I passed by this trailer loaded with wood on a bike ride this afternoon, 22 km riding on the dirt shoulder on the gravel bike. What people do is cut wood during the winder, so you can see similar stacks all over in the spring. I also pl...
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    Yawn

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 20, 2021
    March 19, 2021. Charlemagne is pictured mid-yawn while sleeping on the bed, head resting on the pillow, just like he sees us do it. Not really a good day as I'm still dealing with groin pain. I had a meeting and then struggled for the rest of the day t...
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    The Climbing Pyramid

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 18, 2021
    March 18, 2021. This is in Appleford Park in Ottawa, near the Costco, where I went for a nice spring walk. Today included a trip to the dentist and a meeting along with the usual newsletter stuff and some background reading. https://flic.kr/p/2kMavHp
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    On the Other Side of Town

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 17, 2021
    March 17, 2021. This is another photo the frozen Nation River, but from a different location, this time downstream from town and below the falls (you can see some open water to the right from the falls). It was my second day out on the bicycle, an 11 k...
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    Down by the River

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 16, 2021
    March 16, 2021. Today was the first day out on the bicycle for 2021 and I rode down to the river near the highway to get a photo of its still-frozen surface. With warm days the rest of the week the ice won't last long. Today I had a couple of meetings ...
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    Du Boise

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 15, 2021
    March 15, 2021. I was able to go walking again today and crossed a ditch 9getting a soaker in the process) to get this photo of the woods along Du Boise Street. A good part of my day was spent working on file upload, which works great on my website but...
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    Emma on the RedBlack

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 15, 2021
    March 14, 2021. It was another indoor day partially because of the weather and partially because of my health. So we get a cat picture taken with my phone. Nothing accomplished today, though I did get my bicycles given their spring tune-ups first thing...
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    Snow Squall

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 13, 2021
    March 12, 2021. We're not out of winter yet, as this unusually fierce overnight snow squall demonstrated. I didn't get out today - I'm being bothered by some sort of pain that might be a muscle pull, kidney stone, or who knows what else? It's very dist...
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    Sunset

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 11, 2021
    This is a bonus photo of the day because I like how it came out. It's a photo looking back at Doran park taken on my daily walk. It wasn't quite this dark, but it does capture the way the sky looked. https://flic.kr/p/2kK8ydS
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    Dove

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 11, 2021
    March 11, 2021. The doves have returned from their migration, stopping to feed at their usual spot before settling in. I took this photo through the window; hence the reflection of the glass. Today was another day spent fine-tuning the look and feel, a...
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    Cardinal Heights Cedar

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 10, 2021
    March 10, 2021. I did a quick loop around Cardinal Heights, the neighbourhood just north of the Costco in Ottawa, and took this HDR image of a particularly interesting cedar. Otherwise, my sole focus was still on CSS and Javascript, but I cracked some ...
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    Bobblehead

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 10, 2021
    March 9, 2021. I've been playimng with HDR photos the last few days so I tried this one in low light in my office of a Jeff Bannister bobblehead. I got it a number of years when I watched a ball game in Arlington, Texas. I did exactly two things today:...
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    Fire Hydrant

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 8, 2021
    March 8, 2020. The cold weather is in retreat and it was almost nice out for my walk today, though there's still enough snow on the ground to surround this fire hydrant (it's old multi-layered paint job appeals to me). I woke up early in order to be re...
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    Companion Animal

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 7, 2021
    March 7, 2021. This is me and my companion animal in No Man's Sky. I'll leave it to you to figure out which one is which. I was able to enjoy it for an hour or so this evening. Otherwise, I spent the entire day preparing for my talk tomorrow. That is a...
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    The Water Tower

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    | 2021365, casselman, Syndicated
    March 6, 2021
    March 6, 2021. This is Casselman's water tower taken from a parking lot along Principale, from a longer-than-usual walk today. I played a bit with HDR, shooting bracketed photos with the camera and merging them in Lightroom. I otherwise spent the entir...
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    Super-Mailbox

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    | 2021365, Syndicated
    March 5, 2021
    March 5, 2021. These were called super-mailboxes when they were first installed, but nobody really liked them, and I don't think they're called super-anything any more. As you can see from the photo, it was another bright brisk day with a stiff cold wi...
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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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