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The days are getting longer and the robins are returning, spring is near in Halifax, NS.

I spent a couple weeks in England (mostly London and a day to Brighton) and one of the things I fell in love with were the longboats and canals, especially around Camdentown.

My goal is to be able to retire to the canals and volunteer on the locks. Probably won't …

In July 2015 I went with a crew of friends camping and rafting in Maine. It was my first (and only) time rafting, and it was an adventure. I think I have a time-lapse of some of our adventures somewhere.

It was a stormy night and a cold day, and I woke up thinking about Ukraine and traveling.

So I dug out some of the pictures I took while in Sydney Australia for IEEE Sections Congress. It was a whirlwind trip for me, but I did get to spend a …

Finding a good coffee spot is critical for a successful long weekend.

I tried a new bread recipe a couple weeks ago, and well, I didn't like it all that much. So I went back to old stand-bys and it is great.

This example has 2 extra cups of flour because kids make losing count pretty easy. I made another batch today …

After testing the new lightroom workflow on a few smaller collections (< 1500 pictures) I figured it was ready for primetime, so I created a bunch of collections, one for every year, and added all the unflagged DNG or RAW images to them.

That was a mistake.

I only clicked a …

I'm going through all all my photos that are in Lightroom and have come across this photo I took in 2009 of the falls, I spent a lot of time playing around these little falls in Aberdeen growing up.

We have been lucky this year (so far {KNOCKS HEAD ON WOOD}) with only a couple medium-sized snow falls.

This time last year there was still a lot of snow banks on the streets. What we got yesterday doesn't count, that was just powder.

This was taken 13yrs ago before Dr. Strange hinted at being part of the MCU.