It's just never been the same for me since Spinal Tap...

Looks like the ICBMs hit Napanee this evening. Nice knowing you all.  •  Later: a larger view as well as one of the aftermath.

This is another picture that begs me to buy a proper zoom lens digital camera. Living by the big lake you see some odd mirages. Sometimes you can see the hills of Pennsylvania floating above the pale horison, sometimes the edge of the sky looks like a saw from the image of the far off deep lake …

Like David, I am messed up this week with the clocks going forward last weekend. Losing one hour should not be so dramatic. I didn't even lose sleep due to my dedication to nap therapy but coming come from work yesterday felt like leaving elementary school at 3:15 pm. Except no one was up for …

The greening up of things is starting, long before the leaves pop out, but just about the same time the last of the ice melts on the lake. Here is a short movie of the shoreline lolly from the foot of the hospital lawns[2.5 MB].

If you click here you will see and hear a most undynamic 6 Mb talkie movie of a red-wing blackbird I saw this afternoon next to the car park at work which is usually a sign of late April rather than mid-March.  [Expect some delay in downloading].  •  It is, however, the call that tells you winter …

I have been looking for a picture from Halifax near where I used to live. The swingsets you can see to the centre left are at the field on Jubilee between Oxford and Robie where the crows' soccer sunday has been held since 1986. Thanks to this great slide show. It looks like the huge tree survived …