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These are my favourite cookies. Better than the best chocolate chip that I have made, easy.

We took a walk around Point Pleasant Park yesterday, and the lighting was perfect. Lots of dramatic clouds and filtered light.

Would recommend.

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Halloween weekend is over, the weekend that everyone does their parties, and trunk-and-treating. We went to a party with other like minded aka Covid is still everywhere and we don't want to get sick families on the weekend too.

Other than a halloween party, and a lot of autumn chores …

I have an older Canon Powershot SX260HS (my archive link) that I think is the pinnacle of handy point-and- shoot cameras. It has GPS, enough pixels, a decent zoom range and can fit in a jacket pocket with ease.

However, my camera has been through things. I took it to …

A couple of weeks ago we went for a wander in the woods, and I was skimming through the pictures today and noticed something that I didn't see before, a slug under the moss. I didn't notice it when I was taking the picture, I just thought that the little …

I was going to test focus-bracketing, but then I remembered that there was a lot of extra pot-processing. So instead I just made the fstop number bigger (aperture smaller). Tomorrow I will probably add my flash for a flash for a full fledged macro-setup and turn the fstop to 11 …

I have started thinking that square is getting old, only because its hard to print them, so I'm thinking about giving 5:4 a try. 8x10 is a nice size for printing photos, although I have a 4x6 printer, and that is the default ratio of the camera.

I don't …

Its full on Autumn here in Halifax. You could start to feel the change in the air early last week, but yesterday it was like the change was complete.

In a few weeks the leaves will start to change colour, and hopefully we get a lot of evening rain so …

We took a very short trip to Cape Breton to celebrate my grandmother's 90th birthday, on the day. It was a small outdoor barbeque and cake since I definitely don't want to be the one to give her covid and die. My parents took her to my cousins for a …

We stayed close to home again this weekend, but still got out for a quick adventure.

Saturday we went to the Halifax Commons Pool, the best piece of public infrastructure added in a long time, and spent a little more than an hour in the water.

Sunday I wanted to …