Dad’s blog

Posted on June 20, 2024

Last evening, Jeff turns to me, from his arm chair to mine, and says: “Your Dad blogs more than you do.” It is true. One of my favourite things to…

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Vacation Thoughts

Posted on November 11, 2023

I need to save these travel notes so I can reflect down the road as the logistics details fade. What a fabulous vacation! Why don’t we do this more often!?…

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A winter visit

Posted on February 15, 2020

The winter! the brightness that blinds you,    The white land locked tight as a drum, The cold fear that follows and finds you,    The silence that bludgeons you dumb. The…

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Northern lights with Dad

Posted on August 26, 2018

The aurora forecast yesterday showed a red band of excellent probability of northern lights, and Dad watched it creep across the map of Canada until it was finally our turn!…

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Tonight’s sky

Posted on February 20, 2015

I’m finally ready to learn how to take sky photos with my Nikon D90. So, pre-learning, here is tonight’s sky, with Mars, Venus, and the moon. Venus is faint, click the…

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Spring Flowers Update

Posted on April 14, 2005

Well my wonderful father has filled me in on how to take a good shot with your digital camera of a flower close-up. He said to try take the photo…

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First Spring Flowers

Posted on April 11, 2005

These are my first spring flowers – my crocuses – they came up a week ago. Spring seems so early here this year! I took a few photos using the…

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The New Camera is HERE!

Posted on March 21, 2005

Waiting for my new camera occupied a lot of my time. Seriously. There is nothing like tracking a UPS parcel on their online parcel tracking system. It looked like it…

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