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    Apple Season

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 16, 2019
    September 15, 2019. I finished assessing the last of the proposals and then headed out cycling on a cool crisp afternoon. Quite by accident I visited two apple orchards; it's full-on apple season and people are able to pick their own. The corn and soyb...
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    Paper Wasp

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 14, 2019
    September 14, 2019. I spent the day today reviewing and grading entries to an education innovation contest. I also watched the ball game (the less said the better). And I took a quick walk in the back yard to photograph this paper wasp in the asters. h...
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    Hyperspace

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 14, 2019
    September 13, 2019. Got two paper revisions done and sent today, which make me happy. Now I'm almost set top start on something new. Tonight: No Man's Sky. This is my space ship traversing a black hole on the way to Galactic centre. https://flic.kr/p/2...
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    Jelly Bellies

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 12, 2019
    September 12, 2019. We were in a bad state when Costco stopped selling Kirkland Jelly bellies, but we've discovered that the Bulk Barn has them, so we can satisfy our addiction (we both eat them). Not terribly productive today, but I wrote some notes o...
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    Goldenrod

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 11, 2019
    September 11, 2019. I sat and stared out the car window at the goldenrod on the front lawn after getting back from taking Polly to the vet. The reason why I like living out here in the country is that it is so full of life. Nothing more important, real...
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    The Travel Medicine Clinic

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 10, 2019
    September 10, 2019. I'm preparing to travel to Cote d'Ivoire in October, and part of the process involves vaccination for yellow fever, which I arranged today. I also finished revisions on a paper, so hey, two productive days in a row! https://flic.kr/...
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    Coneflowers

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 10, 2019
    September 9, 2019. Today was a good day. I got stuff done. I did a podcast interview. I wrote a post. I took this photo of coneflowers in our back yard. I have more work to do today, which I nay or may not do, but it feels good to be productive for a d...
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    Nation River

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 9, 2019
    September 8, 2019. It was pretty cool and threatening rain, but I went for a 63 km ride to Cannamore via Embrun, where I stopped for a while to visit family, and Chrysler, where I took this photo of the Nation River. https://flic.kr/p/2hcSrjn
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    RedBlacks

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 8, 2019
    September 7, 2019. On a rainy Saturday afternoon the perfect place to be is under the big roof at a RedBlacks game. True, the game wasn't close, and wasn't in our favour, but lots happened at it was still fun. Polly, meanwhile, is day-to-day - she has ...
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    Polly at the Vet

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 6, 2019
    September 6, 2019. Our 16-year old cat Polly stopped eating and we took her into the vet this morning. This turned into a day of tests and treatment for failing kidneys. There's probably nothing we can do. But while she's still active and alert we can ...
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    Big Yellow

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 6, 2019
    September 5, 2019. Our backyard is a haven for insects of all varities, which means that these spiders prosper. They are quite large (by Ontario standards). Worked on a paper revision (I hate revisions), did an interview for the October conference, att...
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    Painted Lady

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 4, 2019
    September 4, 2019. I've been moving a bit slowly the last few days because it's about to get very busy in the fall. I don't mind - I like busy. Today I revised my workshop agenda and looked at the paper I'm revising, along with watching some videos of ...
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    Costco

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 4, 2019
    September 3, 2019. Today's big moment is having $112.06 in the bank and having Andrea's list for Costco total $112.13 - but I had planned for such an event so no problem. Just remarkable how close they came. Meeting in the a.m., paperwork in the p.m. h...
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    Safe at First

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 2, 2019
    September 2, 2019. Malik Collymore dives back to safety in this the final Champions game of the year. He would get up and set a CanAm league record with his 52nd stolen base of the year. https://flic.kr/p/2h9zqN9
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    2000 km

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 1, 2019
    September 1, 2019. Cycled up to Devine Road and then back down to Russell, reaching 2000 km for the year just as I stopped by to visit family in Embrun (no one home, sadly). I was at the corner of Devine Road and Boundary Road when Verlander finished h...
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    Dunvegan

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    September 1, 2019
    August 31, 2019. Finally back on the bicycle. It was a little cool but generally beautiful day for a ride, so I went 73 km taking the long way to Dunvegan and back. This is the Kenyon Presbyterian Church Dunvegan. https://flic.kr/p/2h8PBPf
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    Amphitheater

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 30, 2019
    August 30, 2019. The photo doesn't quite convey it, but when the clouds and the land combine like this it feels like I'm looking into a giant amphitheater. This was along Russell Road where I took a back road home scouting out a potential biking route....
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    Crab Apples

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 30, 2019
    August 29, 2019. Finally coming out the other end of my cold. I got caught up on a lot of email and small tasks. The highlight was listening to Bryan Alexander's webcast today. These are crabapples growing on the NRC campus. https://flic.kr/p/2h8537A
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    Under the Weather

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 30, 2019
    August 27, 2019. Monday was a sick day - no newsletter, no photo, just a day having a nasty cold. Tuesday was better, sort of - I made it into the office and attended a meeting but still spent the day with a headache. https://flic.kr/p/2h7K4D7
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    On the Hoist

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 30, 2019
    August 28, 2019. This is the car getting routine brake maintenance at the 25K mark. I took the day off work and hung around St. Laurant mall for a few hours... then the servicing dragged on and on to eventually take 5 hours. Still pretty tired from bei...
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    Ottawa Pride

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 25, 2019
    August 25, 2019. Still very much under the weather but we still managed to get out to this year's Pride parade in the city. The weather was perfect, which made it a lot easier. I have a ton of photos which I'll post soon. Now I need to take some Neocit...
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    Lexi

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 25, 2019
    August 24, 2019. It was a beautiful day for a bike ride, but unfortunately I woke up sick, went back to bed, and slept until the afternoon. I didn't do much of anything all day except wait to recover. This is Lexi, our 13-year old kitten in the sink wa...
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    Back Yard

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 25, 2019
    August 23, 2019. Feeling under the weather today and really only had energy to snap a quick photo outside the back window. This, therefore, is our back yard - yes, where all the flower and insect pictures come from. You can see the milkweed forest in t...
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    Polly

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 25, 2019
    August 22, 2019. This is Polly. She's 16 years old and looking more and more frail - though she's still alert, has an appetite and moves around. We spent more time working on the blockchain-IPFS app today, almost out of time. https://flic.kr/p/2h5mzXS
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    Bee and Goldenrod

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 22, 2019
    August 21, 2019. Another photo from the back yard. I was pretty busy today, working on a React-Express app in Docker. Halfway done. I tried to video my work but my experiment with PowerPoint screen recording failed. https://flic.kr/p/2h3xeAo
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    Spider

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 22, 2019
    August 20, 2019. This is a spider in the window, photographed after a relatively productive day. The laptop is working, so I was able to get a Docker-based Node app up and running. I had also planned to cycle this afternoon, but I got out of the office...
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    Future Costco

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 19, 2019
    August 19, 2019. This is the site of a future Costco on Olgivie Road, where I went for coffee at lunch time. Though we need a new large Costco, I think this location will have all the traffic problems the old location had, and more. I had a nice produc...
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    Innes Road

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 19, 2019
    August 15, 2019. An ordinary scene from an ordinary day as I waited to turn left into the Costco on Innes Road. Work involved mostly me trying to make the internet work in the office and the office internet not working. https://flic.kr/p/2h1n8RD
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    Bank Street

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 19, 2019
    August 17, 2019. It was a rainy Saturday and hence a day for errands in the city, including this visit to Bank Street. This area was my hangout when I was in my late teens, especially the pool hall and pinball arcade to the right. https://flic.kr/p/2h1...
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    Resting

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    August 19, 2019
    August 18, 2019. This is the view from my usual last-stop resting spot just south of Casselman on the final leg of a 71km bike ride. The weather was mixed all day but I avoided the raindrops and had a pretty good ride. https://flic.kr/p/2h1ogwS
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