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A Quick Adventure to Chebucto Head

First a short rant.

I think we need to talk about AllTrails. It sucks.

AllTrails Suck!

The last few times that I have set out with a 5yo for an adventure we had to change our plans, on the fly, because the place that the app was sending us had …

Cloudy Day Lighthouse

We took a drive to Chebucto Head for something to do before the rain, that never came.

Baby Ducks at the Frog Pond

This is the first day of summer, so I'm posting a picture that I took in the middle of Spring. Yes, I'm that far behind editing most of the pictures I've taken.

Batch Files are your friend

Something that my pelican experience was missing was a little automation that my Unix friends enjoy with makerfiles. I'm sure that there is a windows workaround, or I could just continue to work in WSL for my pelican life.

I do enjoy working in WSL and all the Linux life …

Bluejay eating bees

When I was taking this picture, everything was happening too fast for me to even notice, but the bluejay had a bee in his beak, and then ...

Blue Jay eating a honey bee

Down the Hatch.

As you may have seen in other recent posts our neighbours have a beehive, and we have a lot of …

Weekend Wandering

On friday I checked the weather for the weekend while I was sipping my coffee, it called for rain, 100% chance all day Saturday and Sunday, so I planning on errands, movies and baking.

Then Saturday came, my errands finished, still no rain and I checked the forecast and it …

When the Flowers Poke Through

Spring is rapidly coming to a close, and I haven't had a lot of time to take photos, or even sit down and record my thoughts.

So for now, here is a photo of some of the first photos that I took of flowers popping up in April.

A Sandpiper

I was on the Nova Scotia Bird Association site trying to figure out exactly what bird this is.

I'm pretty sure its in the Scolopaciadae family, but there are a few that look really close to the same, so if you know what it is, send me a note on …

Birds on the seashore

This is the first time that I took a wander to the beach with the new 100-400mm RF lens. The last time I was here it was late summer and low tide. I think the combination meant there was a lot of little birds grazing in the sand.

It was …