Last summer I took some shots through my binoculars to the south and was surprised how much there was to see. I have this idea that if I get just the right day I will be able to see White Face, the Olympic mountain over by Lake Placid a few hundred kilometres to the east. No such luck so far but …

Home with the cold that is ranging though the kids' elementary school, there is great opportunity to do nothing and note nothings. Like the weather as forecast in amazingly accurate detail by the US Weather Service:  •  “SHORT TERM FORECAST  •  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY  •  127 PM EST …

Much sadness met the news last week that Cards Bakery on King Street suffered from a fire. Cards was (and hopefully will be again) the home of the unreasonably large pastry. Like any good bakery they had day-olds for a ridiculously low price which, despite the apparent petrification the high sugar …

I had a very nice time. It is a good thing once in a while to say you have had a very nice time and 20 years past undergrad it is good to say that a gathering of people in undergrad is a pleasant thing. Zoe (whose name 'nee is not her name unless it is) organized well. Good organizing as one …

I just like this bear and I am not telling you where it is. Inuit carving made of petrified bone. Click for a biggie.

I do not write much about work because I quite like my work and it is usually not that good an idea to write about your work. But I would be missing a great sadness not to note the very surprising passing of the CAO of Kingston, my boss's boss's boss, Bert Meunier, whose obituary in the …

The Wolfe Island Ferry had a hard time in surf this afternoon with spray reaching over the wheelhouse. Here is a short short movie [5.8 MB] of the churn at the river's edge.

After a day of heavy rain and strong wind, this was quite the sight leaving work.