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    PorchFest

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 17, 2022
    July 16, 2022. This is PorchFest in Vankleek Hill. Cycled 105 kilometers there and back today in 30 degree temperatures under a blazing sun and hot dry dusty wind. It was a good day overall, and it's nice to have my first century of the year. https://f...
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    Buddies

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 17, 2022
    July 15, 2022. Charlemagne (orange) and Julia (not orange) sleeping / sitting together on a chair. Friday, the last of the corrections for my paper are done, two interviews complete, an article for OEB (which accepted my proposal) is done, feeling good...
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    The Ford Plant

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 17, 2022
    June 14, 2022. As I understand it, this is a new Ford parts provisioning centre, located here in Casselman, just on the other side of the highway. So Casselman officially has an industrial district. https://flic.kr/p/2nyQBjN
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    Avonmore

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 17, 2022
    July 13, 2022. Took off a bit early this afternoon and went for a 50km ride to Avonmore, where I spotted this flower across the street while having a snack at Barkley's store. https://flic.kr/p/2nyNFJt
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    Tall Milkweed

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 17, 2022
    January 12, 2022. We are becoming experts at growing milkweed. This plant is almost as tall as I am! That doesn't mean we're awash in butterflies, though. I think I saw one earlier this year, that's it. It's like they don't exist any more. So terribly ...
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    Back Yard

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 17, 2022
    July 11, 2022. This is my back yard. We've had a lot of rain this year and where in previous years our back yard has looked like a desert, this year it looks like a jungle. Don't know what the neighbours think, but honestly, manicured lawns are over-ra...
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    Baie Noire

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 15, 2022
    July 10, 2022. We went for our hike around the Baie Noire segment of Parc national de Plaisance. Nice day, warm and clear, and we did 8 kilometers stopping frequently for photos. This will be my last hike with the old shoes; my feet have been sore and ...
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    Dunning Road

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 15, 2022
    July 9, 2022. This is a nice house along Dunning Road near Navan. I went on a nice long ride today up to Pendleton, along the Prescott-Russell trail toward the city, and then back down Dunning through Limoges. Beautiful day for a ride. https://flic.kr/...
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    Cow

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 15, 2022
    July 8, 2022. Just a local cow sheltering under a tree. Still way behind uploading photos. Still completely focused on this article. Also, the charger for my best camera stopped working, so I'm relying on my Fujifilm X-T200 now. https://flic.kr/p/2nyqU9g
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    Red Winged Blackbird

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 15, 2022
    July 7, 2022. One of our local red winged blacjbirds. I'm *really* lagging behind uploading daily photos. We got back from Toronto, got fibre internet, and I've been totally engrossed getting my article written. https://flic.kr/p/2nypyqK
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    Fibre

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 6, 2022
    July 6, 2022. It took three trucks and half a day, but we were the first in our neighbourhood to get hooked up to fibre internet. Bell hadn't even been advertising it yet; I just checked for availability and there it was! It's connected now and I am li...
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    Day lilies

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 6, 2022
    July 5, 2022. These are day lilies in our back yard (I'm still wondering why people move out to the country and then try to make their yard resemble a city as much as possible). I spent a full day writing today. https://flic.kr/p/2nwD2DL
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    The Voyage Home

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 6, 2022
    July 4, 2022. We had some time this morning so we took a wander around the city, then got on the train for home. This is a view of Lake Ontario out the window. I got a fair amount of work done on the train - the wireless was OK until people started str...
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    Farfalle

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 6, 2022
    July 3, 2022. After a very disappointing burger at the hotel the night before, this pasta was a welcome surprise. We had one more game of baseball weekend, another loss - but nobody is blaming the Jays for anything this weekend, as we all learned (once...
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    Vlad and Dad

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 6, 2022
    July 2, 2022. We got our bobbleheads. There were two games on Saturday and the giveaway was the first day. There were some nervous moments in a long line, as they were only giving them out to the first 15,000 through the gates. We were in the 200 level...
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    Canada Day

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 6, 2022
    July 1, 2022. This was the scene at the ball park on Canada Day. We took the train first thing in the morning, arriving in Toronto early enough to catch the game (it's four hours from Fallowfield; you can't do that to downtown Toronto in a car). We wer...
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    RedBlacks

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    July 6, 2022
    June 30, 2022. The view from our seats at the RedBlacks game. It ended in another loss, with the team a bit ragged, but it was still entertaining. After the game we did not go home, instead staying at a hotel near the train station in preparation for a...
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    Daylily

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 30, 2022
    June 29, 2022. This is a daylily in our back yard surrounded by tall grass, goldenrod and milkweed. We're still awaiting the monarch butterflies. Maybe there will be none. But we have a very healthy milkweed crop this year, so if the butterflies come, ...
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    Milkweed

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 30, 2022
    June 28, 2022. This is a milkweed plant with flower on our front lawn. Yes, I said front lawn. It has grown a little wild. But here's what's weird - our neighbour has been mowing more and more of our front lawn ever since we moved in seven years (has i...
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    Quiet Day at the Cheese Factory

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 28, 2022
    June 27, 2022. On the weekends this restaurant and store would be pack, but on a Monday afternoon at the St. Albert Cheese Co-op it's pretty quiet (though with a steady stream of local customers going in and out). It's a regular stop for me when I do m...
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    Frog Bothering

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 28, 2022
    June 26, 2022. This is a path in Warwick Forest and in every one of the puddles (we've had a lot of rain) there are frogs. So Andrea has been sneaking up on them to try to take photos, but the frogs are too, um, jumpy. It was another brilliant hot day....
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    Nao Trinidad

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 26, 2022
    June 24, 2022. This afternoon we drove down to Brockville to enjoy the tall ships festival, taking a cruise during the Parade of Sails on the Empire Sandy and having dinner on one of the Thousand Island dinner cruises. The weather was about as good as ...
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    In the Country

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 23, 2022
    June 22, 2022. Just another field with trees along county road 13 on the way back from St. Albert. Made a TikTok video here. I just wanted to capture how much I like it out here, living in the country. More work on my emerging theories page, and that's...
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    Do Not Push

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 23, 2022
    June 21, 2022. I don't know who looks at the back of a dump truck like this and says "Yeah I want to push that." I spent most of the day today working on my emerging theories article (doesn't look like I'll make the deadline - I should have learned by ...
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    Touchette Bridge

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 21, 2022
    June 20, 2022. This bridge is part of my regular ride to St. Albert and points east - it's on a nice quiet road (rte 650) safe and pleasant for cyclists. However, with a tender recently being awarded, it will be closed for a year in a matter of days an...
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    Four Spotted Skimmer

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 19, 2022
    June 19, 2022. We spotted this beauty in the north Limerick Forest, near Merrickville, along Scotch Line Road. We had a nice 6.7 km hike through the forest, getting to a viewing station overlooking the Wolford Bog. Nice walk, lots of flowers, insects a...
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    Expedition Complete

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 19, 2022
    June 18, 2022. This is the scene at the end of Expedition 7 in No Man's Sky (at least for me, it's different for everyone). I was planning to cycle today but after the late night and kind of a tough week I just stayed indoors and finished the expeditio...
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    Cheerleaders

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 18, 2022
    June 17, 2022. It was the Ottawa Redblacks home opener today, and they lost a hard-fought game to Winnipeg. But the team is so much better than it was last year. More crazy weather, with rain at time streaking into the stadium from both directions at o...
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    Storm Day

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    June 18, 2022
    June 17, 2022. This wasn't anything like the storm of a few weeks ago, but with everyone on edge there was a long of nervous sky watching. Some good cloud formations, but nothing like what they had in Toronto. More work on Mojolicious today; it's progr...
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