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As Winter Dies, Spring Struggles to be Born
From sneakers to Sorels, this week represented the worst of March. Monday was (relatively) warm, sunny, and I was freed from the stomp-clomp of winter boots. By Saturday, however, it back to the winter boots. Just over 10mm of snow had fallen and would continue to fall through to the noon hour. Although it had — read more
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A Quick Roll on a Friday Afternoon
Unsurprising to almost nobody, Ottawa’s downtown remains largely quiet on Friday afternoons. Since we have not been ordered back to the office all five days of the week (yet) most who have the flexibility seem to choose Fridays as one of their work-from-home days. Although I don’t have that sort of flexibility, I have to — read more
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East of the Don Proves Magnetic
Although it wasn’t always this way, since I began to visit Toronto more often – around 2014 – I’ve really developed a fondness for the city east of the Don River. Of course, it’s not as if I had bad thoughts about it before: I had just never been. When I was young and we — read more
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An Energizing Walk on False Spring’s Penultimate Day
Monday was a positively beautiful and sunny day and I just knew that I needed to get outside after work to enjoy it. And sneakers! I got to wear sneakers! The snow is almost all gone and the melt evaporated. We’re back into the seasonal wintry mess as of today, however, with a forecast of — read more
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Birds too Early for the Worm (cont’d)
It was when we made it to Parkdale that Kathleen and I really came to feel just how early we were. The main reason for our visit was so that Kathleen could visit Paper Plus Cloth, a Japanese stationery store, and unfortunately, we ended up passing around 11:15, which was an entire 45 minutes before — read more
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The Cherry on Top: An Unsuccessful Reset
So after a week of my photographic expectations (hopes?) not being met (fulfilled?), I decided on Sunday morning ahead of our little errands that I would get myself back to basics and choose a combination that I am familiar enough with: T-Max 400 that I would push two stops in HC-110. No new developer. No — read more