You know, it’s funny — at a distance, the open river sounds just like the highway. Last week brought a day or two’s respite from winter’s worst, and it looks like I wasn’t the only one grateful for it. Beyond the usual suspects (woodpeckers, squirrels, … Read More →
Category Archives: Out & About
BB#4: Perigee Moon
There you have it: a picture as grainy as the night is cold. For more on this notion of a “perigee moon,” you can click here. It certainly made for a bright evening, and that despite the clouds overhead. Here the old moon pitches in … Read More →
Britannia Baywatch #3
The sun was up and the breeze was down, so I ventured out onto the ice today. I’m certainly not the only one who has done so, either; judging by the great proliferation of tracks, many people are using the ice these days. There’s even … Read More →
Britannia Baywatch #2
As previously, the most active species on the Bay today was the Kiteboarder. Of course, I found a nearby sewer pipe to be somewhat more exciting: That’s just one of the pipes that drain into Britannia Bay. Most times we’ve passed by this particular one … Read More →
Britannia Baywatch #1
Last summer we left Dirleton’s verdant pastures behind and moved into the city. Although this relocation process inconveniently coincided with the final stretch of a certain major project, the move was an altogether good one and has put us even closer to the Ottawa River … Read More →
Spring Runoff
The snow’s mostly gone now. Of course, it has to go somewhere. That’s the creek as it runs through Bishops Mills. Water levels look to be about 50cm higher than they were the last time I posted photos here. Elsewhere, the water’s high too: That’s … Read More →
Way Back When
Sunday was one (a sun day, that is), and you couldn’t very well throw a stone without hitting a jogger, cyclist, dog-walker, skateboarder, kayaker, or aeroplane: * * * It was when we first moved in here that I noticed the old, wooden bridge spanning … Read More →
Mugged by a Chickadee
Friday was cold, at least until you broke into a run. Taking a breather at the top of an embankment, and peering down to a creek recently freed from its covering of snow and ice, we were joined by a Chickadee. It alighted on a … Read More →
Hermits, Scamps, and Rebels
Spring is a scamp, and fickle these days to be sure, but it is back with enough wherewithal to end this hermit-blogger’s hibernation. And after a winter of fierce highs and lows, he cannot help but welcome a kind bit of mud, and that foreign, … Read More →
Earth Day in Review
The animals around here don’t celebrate Earth Day — they’re too busy fighting. Seriously, it seems like the local Grackles, Robins, and Squirrels have all been at each others’ throats lately, presumably settling complicated territorial disputes. But humans are getting the hang of it, though … Read More →