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    Ice

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    January 3, 2017
    January 3, 2017. Freezing rain today, morning and evening. So it was a slow drive in and out. The rest of the day was occupied with a couple of meetings and some work on the MOOC aggregation tool. This frozen scene is from across the road and down a bi...
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    Loading Dock

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    January 2, 2017
    January 2, 2016. Still working on Docker today, without a lot of success. Also went in to Costco, which was a zoo. These are trucks unloading at the dock in the back of the store. Where I parked.
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    Power Lines

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    January 2, 2017
    January 1, 2017. Spent the day indoors working on my landscape document and also setting up an AWS/Docket environment. Unformtunately, docker-cloud had a bug in it, so it doesn't all work. But it's good experience and I like what I'm seeing.
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    Camomile

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    December 31, 2016
    December 31, 2016. We went back to Montreal again today to pick up something we left behind in one of the stores. It wasn't easy driving today, as there was snow and the highways were messy. But back safe and sound, it's good to have done it.
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    Angel

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    December 30, 2016
    Decebember 30, 2016. Montreal. We spent the day there and back, doing some holiday shopping. This is the former Erskine And American United Church on Sherbrooke Street, now a part of the Museum of Fine Arts complex.
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    A Splash of Colour

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    December 29, 2016
    December 29, 2016. Snow again today, so I spent the day inside writing and working. These flags can be viewed from my back window. The red one is, of course, the Canadian flag. The green and white flag is Franco-Ontarian.
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    Nation View Farm

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    December 28, 2016
    December 28, 2016. I was in the city today for a meeting, then to get a CPAP part, then to get some Sim cards. On the way home I stopped in town to take a photo - in this case, a farm overlooking the Nation at the south side of town.
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    Water Tower

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    December 28, 2016
    December 27, 2016. Walked past the 'Do Not Enter' sign to get a photo of the tracks that run alongside our house. This is looking back on the town of Casselman. You won't know it just to look at it, but there are signs of the constrction of a new sewer...
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    Ice Day

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    December 26, 2016
    December 26, 2016. We had precipitation varying from frain to ice pellets to freezing rain to whatever. It was a good day to stay indoors.
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    An 1890s Christmas

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    December 26, 2016
    December 25, 2016. I wouldn't resist the urge to play with this portrait a bit as I pose with my mother and my brother. As you can see, our family is one that breaks easily into a bright broad smile.
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    Kumquats

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    December 24, 2016
    December 24, 2016. 'Tis the season of tiny oranges, and the kumquat is the tiniest of all. First spin on the new bike today, being careful because it has been a while and because my ankle is still bad. It felt good, though, to be back at it.
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    Spinner

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    December 24, 2016
    December 23, 2016. This is our new spinner. Our previous two wore out, but this one will last a lot longer. It's the sort of bike I used when I was taking spin classes in Moncton. Andrea assembled it.
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    Morning Snow

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    December 22, 2016
    December 22, 2016. Another photo outside my home office window (which is a never-ending range of possibilities). This is the snowfall that greeted us this morning.
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    Alex and Pencils

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    December 22, 2016
    December 21, 2016. Continuing with my practice with RAW and Lightroom, this is a portrait of Alex sitting on the table in front of my computer. Accomplishments: - entered time recording data
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    Beez

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    December 20, 2016
    December 20, 2016. I was back at the Candian School of Public Service for an all-morning meeting, and then headed to Bobby's Table on Montreal Road for a nice smoked meat lunch. This is across the road from them, on the wall of a pawn shop (it's not ex...
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    The Essence of Polly

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    December 19, 2016
    December 19, 2016. Back in the office today. Quet but generally productive. Back home, still working on my photograhy skills with RAW and Lightroom. Accomplishments: - created 'My Workflow' diagram - created a ZeroNet discussion room - Posted Lebanon c...
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    The Horse and the Palm Tree

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    December 19, 2016
    December 18, 2016. Another weekend snow day, another day spent doing office work. The horse was a gift from my visit to Saudi Arabia, the palm tree was from Moncton. The combination reminds me of a photo I took ages ago on the Sunshine Coast in Austral...
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    Lights

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    December 16, 2016
    December 15, 2016. Busy day. Taking this picture of the lights in our dining room was the last thing I did in the evening. The lights are all LEDs. We've pretty much converted everything.
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    Wating for Spring

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    December 14, 2016
    December 14, 2016. There's nothing worse than an early winter. Went to the dentist this morning, then took at drive at lunch time looking for a photo - and found it up by LaRose forest. Accomlishments: - wrote On Teaching Critical Thinking
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    Wating for Spring

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    December 14, 2016
    December 14, 2016. There's nothing worse than an early winter. Went to the dentist this morning, then took at drive at lunch time looking for a photo - and found it up by LaRose forest. Accomlishments: - wrote On Teaching Critical Thinking
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    On a Rail

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    December 13, 2016
    December 13, 2016. Working the RAW+Lightroom combination, this time trying to draw out everything I can from this poorly lit photo of Lexi doing her balancing act on the stairwell railings. Ordinary day in the office - LTSC meeting in the morning, argu...
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    Sheds

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    December 13, 2016
    December 12, 2016. Still messing around with RAW and Lightroom. These are sheds in our back yard. We don't store anything in them; they came with the house. As you can see, we had a lot of snow today.
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    Winter Grass

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    December 10, 2016
    December 10, 2016. We were at the St. Laurant mall today, outside of which I shot this grass in the sunlight. Saw 'Arrival' later in the afternoon - pretty good, though we both felt they could have worked more on the ending.
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    2016 A Space Odyssey

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    December 10, 2016
    December 9, 2016. Normally I'm a stickler for photo realism, but I really liked the way this overexposed shot looked (and anyway, the person in the centre of the photo isn't overexposed). Quiet day today, puttering with my landscape document, working o...
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    2016 A Space Odyssey

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    December 9, 2016
    December 9, 2016. Normally I'm a stickler for photo realism, but I really liked the way this overexposed shot looked (and anyway, the person in the centre of the photo isn't overexposed). Quiet day today, puttering with my landscape document, working o...
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    2016 A Space Odyssey

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    December 9, 2016
    December 9, 2016. Normally I'm a stickler for photo realism, but I really liked the way this overexposed shot looked (and anyway, the person in the centre of the photo isn't overexposed). Quiet day today, puttering with my landscape document, working o...
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    Shopping Carts

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    December 9, 2016
    December 8, 2016. This is what it looks like after work these days as I load my shopping cart at Costco. Fairly productive day today marked mostly by a declining email stack.
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