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Take My Breath Away
The other week, I mentioned how I've never fully recovered from the last time I caught COVID, how I've had a cough since October, 2022, and that I've felt as though my lung capacity has been...
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It seems like ages since I posted a YouTube video.Last year, I promised myself that I'd create at least one video each month, and on the average, I did that. But there were times when a month would go...
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No More Binging
Perhaps it's best that I don't have anything to watch.Lately, I find myself sitting in front of the TV too much. Some days, I finish work and turn on a series that I'm streaming and watch a bunch of...
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Beer O'Clock: Breakfast Stout
My heart wept.I haven't been drinking very much beer, lately, and what I have consumed has been mostly non-alcoholic. I don't know why that is.I mean, yeah, I haven't made many visits to our friendly...
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Patterns
There are some photos that I shot while DW and I were in Costa Rica that I just don't know what to do with.They are images of things that just caught my eye and I captured the moment. They are random...
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Practice and Luck
Who would have thought that it would be so tricky?I mean, I've taken photos of the sun before—but then, I really haven't. I mean, the sun has appeared in many of my photos throughout the decades, from...
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All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe
So this is the situation:Photo credit: Hey Paul StudiosIn preparation for my upcoming visit to a lung specialist, my doctor's office requested that I get a chest x-ray. I could go anywhere but we both...
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Beer O'Clock: Windmill Brewery
In November of 1838, approximately 250 men from an American para-military group tried to cross the St. Lawrence River and seize the small town of Prescott, in an attempt to gain a foothold on what...
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Easter Surprise
Much like my Christmas-themed blog posts, this post, which was first drafted in 2022, is now a holiday favourite. If you've read it before, I hope you enjoy it again. If this is the first time you're...
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Re-Reset
I don't know how this could have happened.It's not just some sort of accidental touch of a button. Surely, I had to have made a conscious and deliberate action to have done it.Somehow, I reset one of...
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Expensive Accident
I'll be damned if I'm going to give Apple $80.A few months ago, I shook out a blanket that was crumpled on the footrest of my POÄNG chair, not realizing that the remote control for our Apple TV box was...
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This Guy
I came across this photo, the other night. I was just rummaging through old photos and it came up.Even though it was taken, by DW, in 1997, I look at this picture of yours truly, in Beijing, in...
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Painting with Light
I mean, 20 seconds is a long time to stay perfectly still, in the dark, while people wave funny light sources around you.Last Friday, I attended a light-painting workshop with my Ottawa Photography...
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Today's the Day
I've been excited about today for months. And I've been super-anxious.Partial solar eclipse, 2017.I've made sure that I have the proper equipment to capture this once-in-a-lifetime* phenomenon. I've...
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Plan B
We actually had a Plan B. But by Sunday afternoon, it became Plan C.The weather forecast for Monday didn't look promising for Eastern Ontario. Our original plan (Plan A) was to spend the morning with...
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Beer O'Clock: Hazy Maitland IPA
There was no mistake about what I was getting. But as a newcomer to this brewing company, I wasn't sure what it was called.You see, the first thing that grabbed my attention was the top of the can,...
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Sharing the "Best"
I don't know why it bothers me so much, but it does.I'm finding that I have a love-hate relationship with Threads. I love that I've reconnected with some of my virtual friends after leaving the...
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Style
When it comes to photography, I don't know if I have a style.I tend to think that I have a wide range of styles. I shoot landscape. I shoot nature. I shoot portraits, including models (either dressed...
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Beer O'Clock: A Glass of PP
Many years ago—decades, actually—I would walk into a Glebe pub and if one of the owners, Rose, was behind the bar, I would greet her and then say, "A pint of PP, please."Rose knew what I meant and...
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Morbid Thoughts
Let me start off at the very beginning by saying in all earnestness that I don't believe that I'm dying. I think that I'll be around for enough years that those closest to me will be wishing for my...
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Beer O'Clock: Don't Look Up
I really meant to have some of this ale with me when I was watching the solar eclipse, a couple of weeks ago. I even meant to have it reviewed for the Thursday that followed the celestial event.A...
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