Category: A Day in the Life
This subject covers things (often events) related to every-day life. They are not necessarily profound, but simply things that just happen.
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Flooding
Worried about my maple tree I asked an arborist to take a look. He asked if I had an irrigation system. I confirmed I did, but I also noted that I had not used it because of all the rain. On Tuesday this week, Toronto suffered flooding, not only in the usual spots, including the…
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Cynicism
I once asked a well-known photographer if faced with the choice would you buy a Leica Monochrome or a Leica Noctilux 50mm lens. He answered why not get both. That unsatisfying answer suggested a certain mindset. On their website, Leica Camera highlights some of the more famous photographs taken with their camera over the last…
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Remnants of Beryl
According to Wikipedia: “Hurricane Beryl was a Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that impacted parts of the Caribbean, the Yucatan Peninsula, and the Gulf Coast of the United States in late June and early July 2024. It was the earliest-forming Category 5 hurricane on record during any season in the Atlantic and just the second in…
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Consensus
In his recent newsletter, The Buzz, Peter Mansbridge noted: There’s an old saying about byelections that goes something like this: “Byelections are fire on ice”. I always thought it was an old Winston Churchill line but years of searching for proof, I have failed to deliver any hard evidence of that. I thought I would…