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    The Optometrist

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 16, 2022
    April 14, 2022. This is the optometrist in Embrun. I drove Andrea here today so she could pick up her new glasses. The frames are dark and they make her look a bit Ingrid Michaelson. I also went out for a ride today but didn't take any pictures (I did,...
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    Lunch

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 16, 2022
    April 12, 2022. This is my typical everyday lunch. On the left, some squash and some warmed up tuna. On the right, some Babybels, an eff, two wheatabix patties (I pout the tuna on them ) and some bread (I put the egg on it). https://flic.kr/p/2neJ3Lu
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    Cow

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 15, 2022
    April 11, 2022. This is one of the many many painted cows dotting the region around St. Albert and Casselman, all celebrating the dairy industry here in eastern Ontario. This one is right at the St. Albert cheese factory (home of world famous cheddar a...
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    Wintergreen

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 15, 2022
    April 10, 2022. This is wintergreen, spotted on our walk in Pine Grove Forest today. It was new to me; Andrea pointed it out and told me some about it. I did a TikTok video about it, and as of this writing (a few days after the fat; I'm lagging in my d...
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    Spring Runoff

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 13, 2022
    April 9, 2022. This is an image taken with the new camera of a nearby creek swollen from spring runoff. It's actually a v-shape about 10 feet deep in the middle, and is usually just a little stream at the bottom. This was taken during a quick 25km bike...
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    Charlemagne at the Vet

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 13, 2022
    April 7, 2022. We took the kittens to the vet today for their 1-year booster shots. It took two shifts, as Julia decided to elude capture for an hour. I otherwise had a short meeting, did work on data literacy, and as usual did the newsletter. https://...
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    Opening Day

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 13, 2022
    April 8, 2022. Today was opening day, a day that every spring brings a renewal of hope and happiness, not just for the upcoming baseball season, but also for the upcoming spring and warm season. Made good progress on data literacy today. https://flic.k...
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    Castor River

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 11, 2022
    April 6, 2022. Testing the new camera at the junction of the Nation River and the Castor River near Casselman. More meetings, and I had to go into the office to get my green computer replaced. On the way back I decided to drop in on Bernie (not expecti...
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    Brush

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 11, 2022
    April 4, 2022. I took Andrea to the optometrist today; this is brush just behind their parking lot in Embrun. As usual, new glasses cost an arm and a leg. Today starts a week with a lot of meetings, and between meetings I'm working on my data literacy ...
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    Easter Bunny

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 11, 2022
    April 5, 2022. This Easter bunny is on a porch on the main street here in Casselman. Day of three meetings. In between, worked on the newsletter and tried to sort out an email bug. https://flic.kr/p/2ndT3eb
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    Nuthatch

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 4, 2022
    April 3, 2022. This is a white-breasted nuthatch, observed during our walk to the Upper Canada migratory bird sanctuary today. Large parts of the trail were flooded, but we were still able to walk a bit more than 5 km along an often muddy (and sometime...
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    Creek at the Break of Spring

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 4, 2022
    April 2, 2022. This is a typical early spring scene around here. I took the new camera for a jaunt to St. Albert and back again on the gravel bike. The new wider tires take a bit more effort (this will be repaid with better performance on gravel). The ...
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    Testing the Camera

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 4, 2022
    April 1, 2022. Here I am in a food court opening and testing out my new Fujufilm X-T200. Not the greatest of shots, but that wasn't the point. Why this camera? It records video quite well, and will also take decent photographs, allowing it to fulfill m...
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    Space Base at Night

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 1, 2022
    March 31, 2022. This is a view of my ship flying past a space base on a small moon near a giant planet in No Man's Sky. Thinks like this (if we can get more comfortable headsets) are the real killer app for VR. Some meetings today plus work on my data ...
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    Billboard Impressionism

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 1, 2022
    March 30, 2022. I saw this along Coventry Road walking toward the Best Buy today. I was in the city to change my tires, walked a short distance to purchase a GoPro. In fact I never did buy the GoPro - I came home with a FujuFilm X-T200 mirrorless camer...
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    Gas Prices

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    April 1, 2022
    March 29, 2022. Here's what it looks like when I fill up my car. It's up about $10 over what it cost when I bought it in 2018. This - plus the electrical charge - will get me about 400 km, which means I'm paying this every three or four weeks. So the r...
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    String Time

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 29, 2022
    March 28, 2022. This is Charlemagne on the shelf behind my kitchen chair (where he insists on being carried every evening) playing with the string. Today was the day of the data literacy presentation; I finished off the slides in the morning and delive...
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    World Cup Bound

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    | 2022365, canada, Soccer, Syndicated, worldcup
    March 29, 2022
    March 27, 2022. I know I already shared a version of this, but this is my official 'daily photo' version. Yes, we're headed to the world cup. I watched the game (and also the Blue Jays game before it) as I worked all day on my data literacy presentatio...
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    Dark-Eyed Junco

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    | 2022365, junco, Syndicated, weeds
    March 29, 2022
    March 26, 2022. This is a dark-eyed junco lurking in the weeds in the back yard, its favourite location. Nice how it blends in. Today was an indoor day spent entirely on preparing my data literacy presentation based on the last few month's research. ht...
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    Butternut Creek

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 25, 2022
    March 24, 2022. This is a very swollen Butternut Creek as seen today on my longest bike ride of the year (17km). Still working the gravel bike along road shoulders to build up my strength. Google Maps is terrible at recording creek and even river names...
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    Tripod

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 25, 2022
    March 23, 2022. Busy today and just thought I'd take a top-down photo of a tripod, but of course around here you can't do anything without a cat. Also, because I'm now depending much or on the corporate laptop, I bought a new monitor. Also a new keyboa...
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    Supporting Ukraine

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 25, 2022
    March 22, 2022. This is a house just outside town with a Ukrainian flag. The Russian invasion and Ukraine's fight for survival has been on everyone's minds over the last month. It's hard to stay focused when all this is happening. But it also highlight...
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    Still Frozen

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 22, 2022
    March 21, 2022. Back out on the bicycle today, though it's still cold. This is a pond in a local park, still frozen (though I wouldn't walk on it). Today's work was entirely focused on data literacy, reviewing a number of academic articles from our lit...
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    Just the Two of Us

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 20, 2022
    March 19, 2022. Had fun posing with Charlemagne this evening. Quiet day, played some video, created a bunch of posts, puttered on data literacy, mostly just rested and enjoyed the ball game. https://flic.kr/p/2n9C5sx
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    Waiting for Spring

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    | 2022365, merbleue, ottawa, Syndicated
    March 20, 2022
    March 20, 2022. Things aren't growing yet but the snow is melting and the forest breathlessly waits for sprint. We only walked about 4.5 km today; it was difficult to walk even on packed snow. But still, there was more colour and more atmosphere on the...
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    Welcome Buddha

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 19, 2022
    March 18, 2022. This Buddha used to sit in the hallway in Moncton, but we don't have a hallway here so it sits on a table. I didn't realize the hat was so dusty; time for some spring cleaning. I finalized all accommodations on Anticosti for the summer....
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    Ready to Ride

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 19, 2022
    March 17, 2022. The bike is back from the shop and I took it for the first ride of the year, a 10 km jaunt through the new housing development. Otherwise 100% focused on data literacy. Learning a lot. Using gRSShopper to manage my learning, which is an...
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    Up At Dawn

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    | 2022365, Syndicated
    March 19, 2022
    March 16, 2022. Up at dawn to get on the exercise bike. It's only dawn because we changed to Daylight time. Add me to the list of people opposed to changing the clock twice a year. Spent the full day on my data literacy project. Making good progress. h...
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