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    The Gardiner

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    October 19, 2018
    October 16, 2018. This is a view of the underside of the Gardiner Expressway at Yonge Street. This was Day One of the conference, and I attended some sessions, but I also had to go to OCADU to retrieve my lost lens cap (though on the bright side I got ...
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    Scarborough

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    October 19, 2018
    October 15, 2018. Another day locked in my hotel room (Travelodge by Wyndham Toronto East, in Scarborough), working. This was the view from my window, but the window was so dirty I went downstairs to get a decent photo. I also transferred hotels today,...
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    Markham

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    October 19, 2018
    October 15, 2018. I spent the day locked in my hotel room working on my report. In the evening I drove up Markham Road to Markham Village and explored the area (I had seen it on the drive in and was intrigued). This is a storefront art studio where peo...
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    OCADU

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    | 2018365, ca, canada, ocadu, ontario, Syndicated, toronto
    October 19, 2018
    October 13, 2018. The beginning of a very busy week in Toronto. Drove from my hotel in Scarborough to Lawrence Station, then took the subway downtown to help the OCADU-IDRC celebrate its anniversary. Sadly it was not in this OCADU building (so I still ...
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    Bexley

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    | 2018365, bexley, Syndicated
    October 13, 2018
    October 12, 2018. I missed my turn and had to take a back road, which is where all the best photos are. This is just a bit north of Bexley, Ontario. I started the day with a three-hour session on blockchain, then spent the rest of the day taking the sc...
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    Fog

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    | 2018365, ca, canada, casselman, ontario, Syndicated
    October 11, 2018
    October 11, 2018. I had a late evening and darkness was falling through the fog on the drive home, but I still managed to take a side road and capture the essence. Fog was also a good metaphor for the day, a day that did not go even remotely as planned...
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    Crown

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    October 11, 2018
    October 10, 2018. It was a brilliant beautiful day today, feeling more like summer than mid-Autumn. These were the trees in our back yard. I started the day was an early meeting, then went to the dentist to get a crown, then ran some urgent errands, th...
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    Fading in Fall

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    October 11, 2018
    October 9, 2018. It was misty and rainy this morning and I liked the way these former flowers looked framed by the downstairs bathroom window. Worked flat out on my upcoming course today, finishing up the website and building the activity centre. https...
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    Geranium

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    | 2018365, ca, canada, casselman, ontario, Syndicated
    October 8, 2018
    October 8, 2018. I spent the entire day - a holiday! - working on my E-Learning 3.0 course. Here it is , still a work in progress. We also brought in the geraniums this weekend. This one in particular is inside for its second winter. It had a rough sum...
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    Waving Back At You

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    October 8, 2018
    October 7, 2018. This is my Aunt Marilyn waving back at herself. I spent the day - Sunday! - working on my course, finishing off the synopsis and then messing around with the beautiful design for the pages - keeping it simple but elegant. In the evenin...
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    Water

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    | 2018365, ca, canada, casselman, ontario, Syndicated
    October 8, 2018
    October 6, 2018. Today I spent all day - a Saturday! - writing for my upcoming course. I got the bulk of the synopsis text done (this will also be the basis for future work). Now it's taking shape! The year of research is coming together. This is well-...
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    The Angry Dawn

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    October 4, 2018
    October 4, 2018. This was the sky that greeted me first thing this morning. The rest of the day was quite the opposite, a fairly relaxed day doing housekeeping office work and getting caught up after my trip. https://flic.kr/p/2aCcNgN
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    Streetsville

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    October 2, 2018
    October 2, 2018. I gave my talk in the morning, took a nap, returned for the rest of the conference after lunch, then went for a walk in Streetsville an old former village now completely surrounded by the city. Cool interesting area and I'm glad to hav...
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    Streets of Mississuga

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    October 2, 2018
    October 1, 2018. Conference day, spent indoors, mostly (though I did scoot out toward those buildings to pick up a cheap webcam). Wrote an article, prepared my slides, got everything ready for the talk tomorrow. https://flic.kr/p/2ayDamC
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    Rest Day

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    September 30, 2018
    September 30, 2018. Very much a rest day. I went for a walk around this industrial suburb to take some photos, had lunch at a Japanese restaurant, took a nap, watched the last Jays game of the year, and puttered online for a bit. https://flic.kr/p/2bw1...
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    Train Day

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    September 30, 2018
    September 29, 2018. This is the train pulling into the station at Casselman. I was able to walk here from home, and to take the train (plus a bus) to Meadowvale in Mississagua. It's nice to finlly b able to take advantage of this feature of Casselman; ...
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    Nose In

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    September 28, 2018
    September 28, 2018. This bee has a face full of flower as it scrounges for a late September meal. There are still lots of flowers in the back yard, but they're getting scrawny. https://flic.kr/p/2bs9Gtb
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    Home Run Cups

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    September 28, 2018
    September 27, 2018. Finished up the events stuff today - two days of solid work. These are the Home Run Glasses we got at the Blue James game in Montreal to start the season. You were supposed to download an app that would cause them to flash whenever ...
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    Goodbye Gibby

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    | 2018365, Syndicated
    September 28, 2018
    September 26, 2018. Toronto finishes its last home game of the season with a win over Houston. John Gibbons waves good-bye. Working on gRSShopper Events code today. https://flic.kr/p/MLza2p
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