Last Week of the Season
September 25, 2018. The 2018 season is coming to an end at last. It hasn't been a good baseball season, as Alex will attest. https://flic.kr/p/2aqTtvy
-
-
Goldenrod Owlet Moth Caterpillar
September 24, 2018. This beauty was feasting on a New England aster, not a goldenrod, but they love both plants equally. And we have an excellent supply of both in our back yard. Today was an unusual stay-at-home day because of the tornado damage in th... -
Pink Sedum
September 24, 2018. The sedum are now a bright pink, which means that summer is over and fall has arrived. *sigh* This was another cool day, and again I decided to skip the bike ride. I feel like I've been exhausting myself and need to rest. https://fl... -
Wind-Tossed
September 22, 2018. The geraniums have has a tough summer. An earlier storm scattered them across the yard (and we still haven't found one of the flower pots, just the plant). And they got knocked around again yesterday. As for me, I had a very quiet d... -
The Storm
September 21, 2018. Got my report done in the morning, and some housekeeping in the afternoon, then scooted out of the office ahead of the oncoming storm. A tornado would touch down in the region, and the wind and lightning left a mess everywhere, but ... -
SI Olympics
September 20, 2018. This was a nice event at the office - the awards ceremony in the morning, food trucks at noon and a bunch of games based on the SI system of measurement that raised money for the United Way and gave us a chance to play. https://flic... -
Mountain Ash
September 19, 2018. I finally finished editing and revising a long-overdue paper today, so yay. That and some reading and an online meeting and that was my day. This is a young mountain ash in our back yard. https://flic.kr/p/2baJ1xU -
Pondering
September 18, 2018. Greg Marlin spends a moment or two pondering before presenting a Node-React-Neo4J application at the Graph Meetup on the sixth floor of the Shopify offices in downtown Ottawa. Of course the demo did not go as planned, but that was g... -
Almost Fall
September 17, 2018. I was pretty sleepy today and didn't get a whole lot done (sort of makes up for working all day yesterday, I guess). I puttered in APIs and stuff, ran into roadblocks, but at least did a good newsletter. This is the scene in our bac... -
Grasshopper
September 16, 2018. I had a day of rest after yesterday's long ride, watching the ball game and puttering about. I put up the grsshopper.downes.ca website, so today's photo of a grasshopper in our back yard is especially appropriate. https://flic.kr/p/... -
Century
September 15, 2016. I cycled more than 100km today - a 'century' - south through Avonmore to the Long Sault Parkway on the St. Lawrence River and back up through Finch. 106 km total. It was very hot, peaking at around 29C. https://flic.kr/p/28mjgmf -
Morning Light
September 14, 2018. This is what the back yard looked like at 7 this morning, the Sun rising behind a morning mist. https://flic.kr/p/29GgaQD -
Fridge Door
September 13, 2018. This is the fridge door, and yes, it's from today, not 2016. The paper butterflies are getting very old and fragile - I bought them at a table in a mall in St. Albert on the way home from the north country some time in 1991. https:/... -
Treat Ball
September 12, 2018. The idea of a treat ball is that it should be difficult for the cat to get at the treat. It then plays and bats the ball around the room. Our cats, however, have become experts at extracting treats from the treat balls, to the exten... -
Hostas
September 11, 2018. One of the nice things about work recently is that I've had the time and space to do some serious learning. Today was a case in point as I tackled WebMentions and wrote some standard-compliant functions. The real outcome here isn't ... -
A Spider’s Home
September 10, 2018. It was cold and rainy today, not a pleasant day at all. Good day to be working, which I did, learning how to produce Accelerated Mobile Pages. This photo is from our front yard and features a spider in her home (if you look closely ... -
Harvest Festival
September 9, 2018. 25x50 Day 25. I reached my target of 2000km for the year today, cycling 53 to Dunvegan and back. There I discovered the annual Harvest Festival in full swing. Cool and cloudy and windy, it felt like fall. https://flic.kr/p/29x8neF -
The Ladderarians – 3
September 8, 2018. The weather today was crisp and brilliantly clear, which made for a slightly cool but excellent day of cycling. I had hurt my back in Montreal and wasn't sure I'd be OK, but I was good for a 60km ride, leaving me only 30km from my go... -
Drinking Time
September 7, 2018. I was pretty tired after my very long day yesterday. Even so, I got a few things done. But mostly it was me dragging myself through the day. This is lexi in the evening having a drink. If that tap looks new, it should - it was chosen... -
Picasso
September 6, 2018. I caught the 6:30 train out of Ottawa this morning (which meant I left home at 5:30) to Montreal to catch an event. In the afternoon I had some time so I hit the Picasso exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. I'm uploading this... -
Marvelville
September 5, 2018. 25x50 Day 23. Today started out with a dental appointment. That went pretty well, so I decided to take the rest of the day as a personal day and cycle to Marvelville on what was probably the last really nice day of the year. https://... -
No Parking
September 4. This is a parking spot for plug-in vehicles, and a no parking sign. They shut off the power last week. NRC had three plug-in spots at my building when I bought my plug-in car in July, but now we're down to zero. It's ridiculous. There's no... -
Work
September 3, 2018. Alternative title: 'grazing the cedum fields'. No ride today with tightness in my calf, but I'm only three rides away from my target. So I spent the day working on the gRSShopper reader application. Just like this bee, working on the... -
What’s At Stake
September 2, 2018. I spent another day cycling out in the country and this time ended up at the North Stormont Fair in Newington. As I cycle through the farms and talk with the people at the fair, I can't help but think that this part of Ontario - the ... -
The Crossing
September 1, 2018. Mostly a rest day today. I did a 50 km ride to Avonmore and back. This is a railway crossing near Avonmore. https://flic.kr/p/LUDHvz -
End of August
August 31, 2018. It was pretty quiet in the office today, not surprisingly the day before the long weekend, and so I was able to work without too many distractions - though I did have a few informal meetings with the other die-hards in the office. In t... -
Evening Light
August 30, 2018. I was up early to finish my presentation for today (because of yesterday's distractions) and spent almost five hours with clients outlining distributed ledger technologies. It was a good day but a lot of work. https://flic.kr/p/LU43Pp -
Alex
August 29, 2018. I had a couple of good meetings today, but the space in between was filled with frustrating and pointless distractions. Also, I working on my presentation for tomorrow. This is Alex, looking sympathetic. https://flic.kr/p/27S9yEw -
Spider
August 28, 2018. Today I spent some time trying to get my laptop to work on the network and some time working on the content viewer. This is a spider Andrea found in the back yard. https://flic.kr/p/29eMFyZ -
Polly
August 27, 2018. Spent the day tracking down some tricky code issues. Got home tired and feeling like I hadn't really accomplished a lot. Oh - but Claude showed me where the air conditioning i in my office so it's no longer a heatbox. https://flic.kr/p...
ds106 in[SPIRE]
