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Macro and testing 5:4

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 now full Autumn in NS

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 …

A Quick Trip to Cape Breton

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 …

More Weekend Wandering

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 …

Weekend Update

The weather this weekend was not amazing, the Debby leftovers left the day wet and gusty so we stuck close to home. Nothing interesting, a couple loads of laundry and tidying up to get ready to get back to work tomorrow.

As I have been updating or down-dating, the theme …

Walk Flowers

There are a few flower beds around the Halifax Commons that have flower beds, not many, but the ones that are there are pretty.

Flowers and Butterflies

I stayed very close to home, in fact was mostly sitting bound, all weekend. But luckily we have a lot of pretty flowers, and a couple butter fly visitors to the yard.

There are some of the photos that I took, and there may be more soon.

Monarchs are here

This is the first time that I grabbed a photo of a monarch that I liked.

Creating vim templates

I always have to re-search how to do this, so this time I think I will just write a quick note for the steps so if I have to do it again from scratch I will know what I have to do.

  1. Create a folder for the templates. I put …

I need to do more wandering

This weekend I went out on the water with a friend searching for puffins, seals and other interesting things. It was the longest that I have been on a boat for over a decade or more. The roundtrip time was expected to be about 4h, but with all the stops …