New Year's Eve
December 31, 2016 - We're being snowed on yet again, so we opted for some wide-angle portraiture. Does my nose look big?
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Christmas leftovers - the surprise bonus edition
December 30, 2016 - I thought that the Christmas series had come to an end yesterday, but then I went to the post office and picked up two p...
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Christmas leftovers - the final dregs
December 29, 2016 - A rather eclectic collection of leftovers.
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Christmas leftovers III
December 28, 2016 - Gazing out the window
Early one snowy, grey Christmas morning,
I study the birds busily coming and going.
Tiny ones...
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Christmas leftovers II
December 27, 2016 - Part II
Reindeer games.
The best tactic, when one is an exhausted puppy, is to fall asleep on one's person's foot, s...
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Happy Festive-us
December 23, 2016 - Get it? Festive us? Festivus? We're all-inclusive, non-denominational, multi-celebrational Labradors.
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walking in a winter wonderland
December 22, 2016 - It's definitely a white Christmas here.
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Rusty
December 21, 2016 - Yesterday, a little Australian Kelpie half a world away left this world for the next one, and I cried many tears for a d...
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Fire and ice
December 20, 2016 - A few more shots from around the village. The steeple of the Church of the Redeemer framed by snow-encrusted branches:...
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They say the Eskimos have 50 words for snow...
December 19, 2016 - ...I have 50 expletives for it.
It's still coming down, even though there is nowhere left to put it, and we're not even...
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Bundled up
December 18, 2016 - It's been a largely frustrating and unhappy day; it's bitterly cold outside and the snow goes on forever. I can always c...
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Calm before the storm
December 16, 2016 - 20 more centimetres in the forecast, beginning soon.
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(not so) Happy Feet
December 15, 2016 - Well, today we had bright blue skies and sunshine, as the squalls moved further south, to bother places like Barrie and...
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Bad to worse
December 14, 2016 - Well, I'm really glad that I went out yesterday, because today has been basically a wall of white Hell. We woke up to an...
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Highway to Hell
December 13, 2016 - So this is what it looks like up here at the moment:
As many of you know, I am not a fan of winter, or of snow, and...
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dashing through the snow
December 12, 2016 - Belly-deep in the white stuff.
Lost orange ball 16 times.
Found orange ball 16 times.
Now exhausted, curled up asleep...
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Ultramarine
December 09, 2016 - This has been a very up and down week, and one of the ups was receiving parcels from far away: one from Australia, conta...
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squally
December 08, 2016 - Snow's here. And not looking like it's stopping anytime soon. Like April.
If nothing else, it's a good excuse for some...
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Fence
December 07, 2016 - “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, T...
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'Tis the season
December 06, 2016 - Today was the annual pilgrimage to the Salvation Army kettle, in memory of my father, who has been gone for more than te...
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The indignity of it all
December 05, 2016 - First, dog tags get turned into snowballs, thanks to the twice-the-predicted snowfall that arrived overnight.
Then of...
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orange ball
December 04, 2016 - ...in the side pocket.
(that's about all I know about billiards).
What Arwen wants, Arwen gets.
Congrats to Phil for...
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Eat yer greens!
December 02, 2016 - So, in the ongoing saga of doggy diarrhea, we had a bit of a setback at the beginning of this week, after the dogs finis...
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Because mud
December 01, 2016 - Three guesses as to which of the two dogs this is...
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