Hairy Plant at Rattesnake

Its a homework Saturday night. Well, Gabe is working away and I'm playing with my blog at the momment.

I'm trying to think of what I want to say at my uncles burial. So far, I chickened out at speaking at his funeral.

I can't believe that it is almost December. I went to the Huttonville Craftshow. It was pretty decent. They had a lot of antiques, which I admit don't generally excite me, but they had some neat work - nothing that I needed or wanted, but it was fun to look.

Anywho. I'd better get back to what I should be doing.

Cheers,

Jennith 

Mhar's Random Book Quiz

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Revenge of Blogger

Well, I'm glad I finally got the poems that when with the picture below posted. Blogger ate them not once, but twice and the second time I know I pressed publish and not discard. Sadly there is no way to recover posts from Picasa - if something goes wrong - its just gone, and I might have thought to copy and paste my text the 2nd time, if I hadn't blamed myself for losing it the first time. So, I'm not even going to try and salvage the content... I'm going to get back to designing a stilling basin for my imaginary damn....

Do, if you get a chance, listen to the song "Mad World". Its really pretty.

Pressing publish and hoping for the best 

Introspective Fog

May the mist haunt you
Tendrils of beauty unfurled
Unbetrayed edges

Introspective fog
Cloaking blunt visions of facts
Buffering harsh truths 

Winding Road

Eek. I just wrote this really neat post and I think I might have pressed discard rather than publish - at least I don't see it...

Sigh...

Sometimes blogger does weird things.... :(

Jenn 

Hiking in Ontario: The Bruce Trail

Here is the other picture that I tried to post this morning, but got eaten by blogger.

I took about half of the pictures just outside of Rattlesnake Park in Halton. I also took a few on the bluffs. I did miss getting a picture of the raptor (buff and white - didn't get a great look at it - maybe a hawk or an eagle - pretty big at any rate) that flew away as I turned around from taking some close ups near the ground.

I also had some problems with settings that caused me to screw up a decent shot of a chipmunk on a mossy log. But I did get quite a few pretty pictures of the escarpment and frost edged vegetation. I don't think I realized how dominant Red Oak are up there.

I ran into some neat people (older folks - possibly retired - hard to tell, they didn't look too old) who meet and go hiking 3 times a week in Southern Ontario. We had a nice chat and he recomended a few places to try out. I told him about Awenda. I do still have a long way before I make my pass worthwhile. Hopefully, I'll have a few more weekends that I can get away with hiking or cross country skiing.

Cheers,

Jennith 

Here is hopefully an entire mouldering leaf

 

Sillhouette Shadows photograph

Here is the photo that should have gone with the first post today. 

Shadow Dancing

Trying to take a picture of your own shadow is harder than you'd think. There is the balance aspect and then there is the contrast aspect. However, I did manage this photo without getting run over or dropping my camera.

Now. Lets see if Blogger can post the picture for everyone to see.

Jenn 

Moldering Leaf

 

Happy Bloggaversary to Me

I was just checking in my Archieves today to see when I wrote my first post and it turns out that today is my bloggaversary (at least for this blog). In actual fact, my msn space is older and still sort of being used.

I'm also approaching another milestone - the 5000 hit mark which I expect to make in Early December. Of course, the counter isn't quite accurate, as it missed the hits predating its installation and I think it was also accidently reset at some point. Oh yeah, and probably half of those hits are me, checking, fixing or using my links, rather than real hits. Still, a mile stone is a milestone and I thank all of you who actually read my blog regularly (and random drop ins) for helping me get there. As I write this, I must admit my current frustration with blogger as I don't appear to be able to post pictures. Click on the boxes and you usually get the big size picture..but it is a bit of a drag.

Sigh - I'll celebrate anyways and hope that they get it working sometime today.

Cheers,

Jennith 

 

Crisp November Morning Sillhouette

After months of dreary, rainy days, today was a perfect crisp sunny day of frosted yellow grass and foggy sillhouettes.

I tried to catch a bit of the sun on the way into Guelph so I slope to take a few pictures near Rattlesnake Point.

Milling tree shadows
Await the lifting of fog
To embrace light's warmth

Shifting fog billows
Cast mysterious aura
On ice-frosted fields

Jenn

Monarch Caterpillar: Going Down

Some days I wish I had as many hands as that caterpiller and a few extra brains... duocore :D

So, another quick post with a picture scraped up from August in the Wilmot Creek area.

Today's Toronto Star link is to an article on aging water mains in the city of Toronto (The civil engineer in me couldn't help it).

The rest of the pictures that should have gone with the previous post - got eaten by blogger - I'll see what I can do about finding a wilded haired picture of me to post in the next few days... wouldn't want people thinking I was a dress girl as a child :D.

Back to designing imaginary dams.

Jennith 

When we were young and dressed up...

Greetings as I type a quick post before heading to sleep. I found this trove of

ancient pictures and while I have no idea what made me chose a photo of me in a dress (its my birthday - thus the dress) with a doll in my arms no less I don't know. I guess it isn't exactly the me I remember. Probably, bare foot in a tree would be better, but someone brushed my hair before taking this - so it did look better than most of the rest with a tangled mop.

Well, here are a few more realistic ones. Good night

Jennith

Mr. Twister - A tornado tree

A few notes:

1. The picture of Lake Kathleen was taken by one of my parents.

2. The tree in this picture clearly has some tics in its genetics, but I can't for the life of me remember the cause today.

3. A haiku
Snow grains cascading
Over smooth-curved surfaces
Dancing in circles

4. I can't believe its November already.

5. My goal is to excercise (aerobically) at least 20 minutes 5/7 days. I'll keep you posted on my sucess.

:D Better get the morning rolling.

Jennith 

Bloggers Having Trouble

 

Lake Kathleen, Yukon

There are a zillion things to write about, and no time to write them. The weather's turned chilly and 2 random stories have lent me a frightening insight into just how human elephants are and how even I never thought to credit animals feeling like ours until reading this article and seeing a quick spot on a National Geographic show last night.

Aside from that, I've been busy with the 2nd part of my watershed design project and helping out at home. Right now, I wish I could take a bit of a nap, but I have much to do I fear and if I nap now I'll be wiped out all evening.

Cheers

Jennith 

Picture??

 

Beautiful Rivers

So it is Friday again (thank goodness), although I forsee the weekend being packed with work of one type and another. The second half of my big term project is looming - I need to design a weir or dam to create a resevoir and fix up some bits I missed in the original report.

The mightly, little main restigoche river is undeniably one of my personal favourites (and I don't even have a clue how to fly fish.) Its a salmon river, although most of the Salmon i saw were small enough to fit in the palm of hand. I did see some pretty impressive fish that summer.

Its still raining here. It didn't seem much rainier than its been all fall, but apparently Toronto had record rainfall and certainly many of the small creeks I saw today were flowing full to flooded. I wonder what the return period of this storm system is (I thought I heard 1 in 5 year). Meanwhile, Southern BC is taking a beating from storms and rain. I hope they get a bit of sunshine to let them dry out. Flooding is scary - I can't imagine having my house flooded and everything ruined :(.

On that not, I'm going back to work. I have an idea what my dam should look like but I need some prelim values for soil stability and flow rate. I get to play with HEC RAS (cool program - see the link on the side.) I've been continuing to add to my links. If anyone would like me to add their page, drop me a line and I'll link you up.

Cheers,

Jennith 

Cape Breton (and Newfoundland)

Here is a shot from Cape Breton Highlands Park in April. I hope one day to camp their (and do some serious hiking) in the fall.

I've included a link to Tourism Newfoundland/Labrador until I can track down a Newfie with pictures of their province that I can post, having never been there. Oops... or my parents. Newfoundland is also high on my list of places to visit should I ever have the time/money/opportunity to do so.

Cheers...

Jennith 

Northern Ontario

I could live up here in the land of blue lakes and rocky shores. (Land of the Silver Birches Lyrics apply in their entirity to me) Especially if one of the best people I know in the north is still there whenever I get a chance to make a decision about where to live next.

Today was a day of necessary, but unexciting tasks. I rust proofed my car and got a flu shot. I'm muchly happy with the municipal (and recent American - as well) election results. Mayor Hazel McCallion took her 11th term as the mayor of Mississauga with 90+% of the votes. I was telling my office-mate about how lucky we were in Mississauga and he was duly impressed by our loyalty, love and luck to have a mayor that sucessful in our town. Given its rate of growth, size and demographic that there aren't more complaints about Mississauga than there are (mainly with respect to transit) Says and awful lot about Mayor McCallion. I don't know what we'll do when she's not able to be our mayor anymore. It'll most certainly be the end of an enviable era. I propose we build a pyramid in her honour to house her remains, so that we can continue to consult her beyond the grave if necessary and pay our respects. Sillyness aside...here is the link for Mississauga election results and an article on Mayor McCallion.

Oh and here is a random happy story to make everyone feel good.
Cheers,

Jennith 

Ottawa

 

Big Skies in Alma Beach

I believe this falls into the assorted coastal NB catagory.

I thought I'd alway include a link to this wonderful Toronto Star article on Bob Rae, Liberal Leadership hopeful.

I thought it was a nice humanistic look into a person who I feel would protect core Canadian values and has the charisma to put the liberal party into power.

The First Response Mixer Conference was fun this weekend, my apoligies to my family members who were working without me... I'll make it up next week. A big thanks and wow to Gabe for cleaning our room and doing lots of Laundry... I'm totally amazed!!

Cheers,

Jennith