Category Travel
The Harvest
Snow in the forecast, but it was a sunny Friday afternoon and unseasonably warm. I had a long list of things I wanted to accomplish. They didn’t get done. My wife sent a text: “Are you done work? Want to enjoy the weather and go for a walk?” So it was out into Ottawa’s urban […]
Sharing Tea
This time last year I was in Iraq. I had plans to return this month, but the fighting in the Mosul area made the trip unwise. I wrote the words below last November, and for some reason I don’t seem to have posted them before. With the current fighting expected to produce another half million […]
Fall Colours V
It looked like a perfect picture. I was in a conference room on the fourth floor of Centre Block on Parliament Hill. Through the gothic arched windows I could see the Gatineau Hills alive in a blaze of fall colour. “I must get a picture of this” I said to myself. “As soon as the […]
Experimental Farm II
It was dusk when we arrived at the Central Experimental Farm. Or maybe it just seemed that way because it was overcast. Whatever the reason, a row of greenhouses stood out as a blaze of light. I guess the lights help stimulate growth. I’m the wrong guy to ask horticultural questions. I know plants need […]
Experimental Farm I
We were visiting a patient at the Ottawa Civic Hospital, and afterward walked across the street to the Central Experimental Farm to wander through the paths there. The farm is somewhat of an anomaly – a thousand of acres of farmland in an urban setting. Mind you, in 1886, when the land was set aside […]
Fall Colours IV
I took a lot of pictures on our Sunday afternoon walk, which may turn out to have been the last day with double-digit temperatures this fall. Yesterday afternoon we had a snow squall, quite an intense one. My wife and I will still walk in winter, though maybe not for as long each time. When […]
Fall Colours III
After two days of torrential rain the sun finally broke through the clouds Sunday. With winds gusting to 70 kilometres per hour, I wondered if there would be any leaves left on the trees. Surprisingly there were still a few, and even more surprising to me is that many are still green. To me the […]
Fall Colours
The leaves have finally begun to change colours, later this year than normal. It has been a busy time and I haven’t been able to head out and enjoy the beauty of an Ottawa Fall. I’m hoping for next weekend, if it doesn’t rain. These pictures are from Thanksgiving 2011, our after dinner walk along […]
Building A Fence
Among American poet Robert Frost’s best known lines is one about how “good fences make good neighbors.” As a homeowner I have discovered that this can be true. And I’ve pretty much always had good neighbours. Driving the back roads of Renfrew County, traveling along the Opeongo Line, we got distracted by a sign that […]
Freak Show!
If you think you have see this post before you may have. I was watching the baseball game last night (and not the vice-presidential debate) and got so caught up in the contest I didn’t get around to finishing the post I had planned for today. So here’s one from November 2014 to start your […]
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