Snapped a picture looking out over the experimental farm through this morning’s rolling fog. Those are trees and a little shed. No horizon line, though – just white meeting white.

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Yesterday was kindof a disaster for buses – we were getting sleet and freezing rain, so inevitably they were running really late and/or were too full to pick us up when they came. Finally a 176 stopped for a gang of us on Merivale, and we packed in like sardines, only two blocks later to [...]

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Oh man – I’m almost embarrassed. It took me about three seconds to realize where the sparkles were coming from when I left work this evening.

It was my BREATH. It’s not below 0 degrees yet outside, but it was cold enough that my warm breath was barely visible. When I held [...]

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When I left the office last night I thought I’d grab an image or two of the empty parking lot for a little experiment I wanted to do (it’s easy to match lighting when there’s not much lighting around!) but left the flash on for the first shot, lighting up these mysterious sparkles in the [...]

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On Saturday I participated in my first organized running event in over a decade, and it went really well! I ran 8 kilometers in 42 minutes 15 seconds, almost three minutes faster than my goal time – I kindof blew my own mind. I was really nervous going into it thinking that I might be [...]

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I went downtown tonight with some flowers to drop off at the Danielle Nacu memorial on Queen and O’Connor. Someone thoughtfully put up a “Ghost Bike” and I wasn’t the first to get there.

This one struck close to home when I read about it. Danielle died Tuesday morning when she got “doored” by an illegally [...]

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So when my guests from out of town wonder aloud about the “Experimental” part of the Experimental Farm, I tell them about the SpiderGoats, a genetically engineered species of goat that produces spider silk protein in it’s milk that can be harvested to produce “BioSteel”. I had read somewhere that they were keeping them in [...]

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Although we’d already been meaning to stop by the Agriculture Museum sometime soon to check out the alternative energy display, when I discovered this afternoon that they were having an ice cream festival I knew we had to get in the car and go right away.
If they were standing around giving away ice cream I’m [...]

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I couldn’t resist hopping off the bus at the Experimental Farm to snap a real-life example of a phyllotactic spiral. Then I missed the next bus, chasing bees around with my camera. I still managed to make it to work on time!

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Along the Rideau River just behind Carleton University, by the south point of Vincent Massey Park, you can often spot a pair of hideous deformed ducks swimming about. Life is cruel – they would have made a handsome set of swans.

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