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Split-Rail Fence
Wired Sky
An Anniversary in Blogging
Today is the one year anniversary of EatsWritesShoots. Thank you all for making this the best year of my life. A year is a long time. Much can be done in a year. But it is a long time to be doing anything. When I began this blog a year ago, I had no real…
Sky Feathers
It’s amazing what the layering of nature and human tracks can produce in the sky — vapour trails become feathers.
The Magic is the Light
For years, I thought the mystery was the molten glass, but the magic is the light. I’m reluctant to put quotes around these words because I think I’ve done a poor job of remembering them word for word, but this is the essence of one quote I read on the wall of the Musée des beaux-arts…
Pineapple Coconut water and Rosemary Martini
Are you a fan of pineapple? (check) Do you think that coconut water surely must have more sinful uses than to hydrate after exercise? (boring) Think gin separates the adults from the vodka drinkers out there? Wanna play James Bond and have a martini and not have to hide your “eww — yuck” face? (Yes)…
Tangerine Sky
What’s better than a sky that looks like food? Tangerine ice cream, anyone?
Fireworks over Niagara Falls
Fire … in the night. It defines our species. Regardless of what advances we make in genetics or semi-conductor research or even particle physics, there is no better guarantee of drawing thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people outdoors, at night, than the promise of fireworks. (Sorry Higgs Boson — you’re not a spectator…
“Botched” Fireworks
Not that some of us need a lesson in what happens when you take time-elapsed photography without the aid of both a tripod and a steady surface. These pictures were taken from my balcony, 11 floors up, overlooking Niagara Falls. They were taken impromptu and without much set up as I hurriedly grabbed my camera when,…