I have a bit of a pet peeve with the way astronomical events are ‘advertised’ to the general public. I had a bad experience back in 2002, bringing a gang out to the outskirts of Winnipeg at 3am on a frosty mid-November morning to catch the peak of the Leonid meteor shower. It was great [...]

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There’s a new squirrel moving in to the tree in the front yard – we had a grey squirrel for a while, but this black squirrel seems to have asserted itself and captured the territory. We’ll see how that plays out. I suspect squirrel territory has pretty flexible boundaries. There have been squirrels chasing each [...]

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We’ve had an unusually warm and rainy March, leading to a few early surprises like these spring flowers pushing up out of the flower beds.

To be honest, I’m still not able to distinguish tulips from other bulb flowers like crocuses (crocii?) and irises at this early stage, although I vaguely remember tulips growing in this [...]

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I’m very excited by the glassblowing workshop I’m taking – I’m having a blast mixing colours into glowing hot glass and then twisting and squashing and blowing it into all kinds of amazing forms. The colour of blown glass is amazing – it’s so rich and saturated and has a brilliant quality that shimmers when [...]

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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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I’m building a slide-photography rig to be able to quickly capture a bunch of old family photos, but didn’t expect the inside of a PVC pipe to be so shiny. So my first few attempts produced some really fun swirly distortions that I thought were neat.

A good friend lent me his slide scanner, which does [...]

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Caught some deer out by the airport as we drove out to pick up Mom from work – and got a great panorama of Winnipeg while I was at it. Sorry if I’m reinforcing stereotypes – it’s not all fields, airports and grain elevators.

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I snapped some pictures of will’o’the’wisps tonight out in the rain.

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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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I’ve been a big fan of “Pictory” since it started, a cool website full of interesting photos and stories loosely gathered around their theme of the month. Their topic this go-around is hard to stomach, though – literally. “Eat at Your Own Risk” presents a number of creatures I didn’t know existed (including the totally [...]

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