One of the perks of working community news in Niagara is that the peninsula is a prolific wine-making territory. This means wineries dot the landscape. Around these has sprung up a rather well-heeled tourist trade. As a result, even lowly civic dinners and Chamber of Commerce galas are amazingly well-catered ( Read more... )

I believe there is a spot near Fonthill where one can see both Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, simply by turning south and then north, respectively. I realized this last week, as I drove up the long, slow hill up and saw Lake Ontario glittering in the rearview mirror. Then, moments later, at the hilltop, there was Lake Erie in the hazy distance to the ( Read more... )

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On Monday I took the new camera into work to give it a whirl. I took images at various points of the day from the moment I left the house until my final walk home.


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I arrived at the Hamilton GO Train Station this morning, and there was no train. The platform was empty. A switching problem meant the 7:04 AM train service from Hamilton was canceled. Bus services was being offered to the Aldershot station, but a quick examination of the bus platforms revealed a great many people and a scarcity of buses. Rather ( Read more... )

So, I see everybody doing this dragon egg thing, yeah, so I wanted to do it too. I went out and looked for a dragon egg at lunch. It took HOURS. Finally, I found one on the sidewalk up near Eglinton in Toronto.


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Today was finally the day. commanderteddog and I went on a very special lunch time adventure. There are photos!

But first... yesterday sassy_fae and nottheterritory showed up at my office door, and demanded I go to lunch with them. I tried to resist, but we ended up dining in the Officer’s Mess of the Nautilus.


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After a hard day of Christmas decorating and cleaning and making a mess of the cleaning, I took Claire and Elizabeth on an impromptu trip to Niagara Falls to look at the light festival.


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I've uploaded 210 photos to my Google albums. It's mostly in proper chronological progression, though it goes back to the beginning of the con around pic 20.
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As promised to paka, some photos of Hamilton's downtown core, taken at 6:30 AM on a misty November morning. This morning, in fact.


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