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  1. Downes

    Daylily

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    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, ...
  2. Downes

    Milkweed

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    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...
  3. Downes

    Quiet Day at the Cheese Factory

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    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...
  4. Downes

    Frog Bothering

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    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....
  5. @eggstve

    Dev log: 2

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    Oh boy what a week! Lots of pictures and editing and reading for the end of this week. Though I have some nice results, I canā€™t say Iā€™m overly proud of what I managed to accomplish this week. I feel like a baby bird that saw some other birds flying, jumped from a branch and [ā€¦]
  6. @eggstve

    Material reflection: Week 1

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    I feel like a lot of the information about taking photos wasnā€™t really new information for me. Iā€™ve taken plenty of art classes, and Iā€™ve earned about all sorts of the terms and tricks described in many different blogs and youtube videos. And yet when I personally went to start taking photos, I suddenly felt [ā€¦]
  7. @eggstve

    Daily Creates week 1

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  8. @eggstve

    Photo safari reflection

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    I was incredibly nervous before starting this assignment, mainly because of the time limit. 15 minutes to take all sorts of different pictures didnā€™t seem like enough time to get even a few done to my liking. But as I got started, I found the process to be pretty quick! During the time crunch Iā€™d [ā€¦]
  9. @eggstve

    Photo reflection

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    The picture I took for the prompt of bright lighting definitely surprised me the most with how much I like it. To start with I wasnā€™t expecting clarity, maybe a large blob of white with the wall in the background. Instead, I can clearly see the lamp shade, the wall, and even the lightbulb itself. [ā€¦]
  10. Downes

    Nao Trinidad

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    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 ...
  11. Downes

    In the Country

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    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...
  12. Downes

    Do Not Push

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    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 ...
  13. @ungrac3ful

    Hey Siri, play Introducing Me from Camp Rock 2, by Nick Jonas

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    ā€Do-do-dododo-doā€ā€¦for those of you who understand this ~iconic~ song and movie referenceā€¦thank you, you get me. For those of you who dont..thats awkward. Let me try again: Hi! Iā€™m Grace ? I am super excited to create and share new content with my pals in Digital Storytelling this summer. Fun fact about me: this is the second time I am taking DS106 (oops!) and this time, Iā€™m ready to do it right! This class is starting while I am on a family vacation at the beach (glass half full: hey, at least class starts while you are at the beach!! glass half empty: ā€¦ew sucks you are at the beach when class has to start) and I decided to take a little bit of advantage of this fact and add it into how I was saying hi to everyone. Take a look!
  14. Downes

    Touchette Bridge

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    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...
  15. StefanieJ

    Outdated Pattern

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    I did this from a book and then found out that the cafĆ© does not exist anymore. There also have been modifications over time. Thus the foto and pattern for the drawing in the book must be really old.Cafe:https://flic.kr/p/2ntpposChanges: https://i...
  16. Downes

    Four Spotted Skimmer

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    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...
  17. Downes

    Expedition Complete

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    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...
  18. Downes

    Cheerleaders

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    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...
  19. Downes

    Storm Day

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    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...
  20. Downes

    Cat Tunnel

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    June 15, 2022. Andrea bought an extension to the cat tunnel, so it's a full circle now, and the cats have taken to it; here's Charlemagne enjoying it. Back to more work on Mojolicious today (I know I should be writing, not coding, but I've spent so muc...

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