Peace is where your feet take you. #hiking 🥾 🥾

A trail that needs trekking. 🥾 🥾 #hiking

Today it's 80 years ago that Canadian troops liberated #Deventer, #Nederlands and neighbouring villages from German occupation. For ever grateful. #Canada @daveatcogs.bsky.social @petervogel.bsky.social @elisabethkosters.bsky.social @radiomercenary.bsky.social

Gentle trekking on the trails today. Light snow, whispering pines and my buddy Woody. #hiking #winter

No trail breaking today but established routes were freshly snow covered. In the spring I’ll give this rock pile a go. Too slippery to chance it now. #hiking #outdoors 🥾 🥾

A beautiful day for off trail #hiking. This area is managed by the National Capital Commission. There are two primary loop trails and several trails carved out by cross country skiers and fat tire cyclists. Today I made some trails and followed the deer. 🥾 🥾 #hiking

Thinking about the unnecessary strain of late on Canada / U.S. relations. We are more than geographical neighbours. We are allies and friends. For several weeks we’ve heard the word “respect” tossed north across the frontier. Respect is a two way street. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 #StrongerUnited

Don’t know how many times I’ve watched On Golden Pond. It’s a favourite. Last night I watched it for the first time as an “old poop.” #wednesdayvibes

Father son trek today. Met a friend along the way. #hikingtrails 🥾 🥾

Fresh snow and sunshine made familiar territory look new. #hiking 🥾 🥾

Just learned my daughter is taking me to Bear McCreary’s show in #Montreal. #musicmatters 𝗦𝗼 𝘀𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗹! 🎼

Nice rock wall to follow on my latest hike. -15C made the snow crunchy. #hiking 🥾 🥾

#Winter #Ravine #Walk #1. (Inspired by the awesome shots of his winter #hikes posted by @radiomercenary.bsky.social on another social-media site, I actually left the house today and took a walk down the nearest ravine in the East End of #Toronto)

Just when you think you’re in the middle of nowhere …. #hiking 🥾 🥾

A fresh snowfall lured me off the beaten path. #hiking 🥾 🎒 The deadfall in panel three kinda looks like a creature.

Less than two weeks ago this stream I pass while #hiking was flowing. With several days of sub zero temperatures, it’s frozen.

My son racking them up at the local #billiards room. Afternoon out.

Travelled today through deep trees, overland, and a ravine I hadn’t noticed before. A guiding light pointed the way home. #hiking 🥾 🥾

Minus 22 windchill isn’t so bad in the trees. #hiking 🥾 🥾

Today’s hike. Trees make a great windbreak. Not sure what went to work on the munched tree trunk. #hiking 🥾 🥾

I watched this the day before we lost President Carter: youtu.be/zl4syrvRG1g?...

Via The Canadian History Exchange. When a partial meltdown of the Chalk River (Ontario) Nuclear Power Plant occurred in 1952, one of the Americans brought in to help dismantle the parts of the reactor was #JimmyCarter. He was lowered into the reactor in 90 sec shifts,enough time to remove one bolt.

The Carters are “the only presidential couple in the modern era to move back into the home they lived in before the presidency.” #JimmyCarter #POTUS39

Breaking in winter #hiking boots. 🥾 🥾. Note forest squirrel in panel 3 working on camouflage.

“We have not invested enough in the Arctic for many years, now we are planning a stronger presence.” #Greenland #geopoli

‘Tis the season. ❄️

Pot of coffee and a comfy chair. #goodread 📚

“When #BrianEno says, ‘I doubt I’ll ever read a better account of the history and sociology of popular #music than this one,’ you know it’s worth a look.” www.soundoflife.com/blogs/experi... #books

Rolling the dice on sovereignty. 'If it gets me to skip a half-hour line in Vegas, sign me up.” #cdnpoli #uspoli 🇨🇦 🇺🇸

Had the good fortune to be on the CHUM team when the Waters family owned and operated fantastic #radio and #television stations. 🎙️ 📻 📺

Canadian #airlines are taking some knocks this week over new baggage fees and for ending free carry-on. Below picto-publication on how tough the airline business is is a #goodread. A bit dated but still stands up. ✈️

"And that brings me to the subject of #socialmedia #platforms — which increasingly resemble these old, decrepit #malls. They are the ultimate fake community centers. This makes them vulnerable, despite all the current visitors and lurkers and noise" www.honest-broker.com/p/are-social...

A year ago I wrote a #blog post about leaving #Twitter and setting up shop here on #Bluesky. Someone suggested recently that I write a follow up, so I did. It's called Nothing But BlueSky from Now On (?), and here it is. doncurren.blogspot.com/2024/12/noth...

2024 sky stuff. #ThursdayVibes

Funny how the Clown-in-Chief elect trolls Canada by cracking wise - ‘Governor’ Trudeau and the ‘Great State of Canada.’ Quick glance at the Constitution and it seems a Governor is more powerful than a Prime Minister. Oh well. It’s only four more years. #cdnpoli #uspoli

Radio waves. 🎙️ 📻 #sportsradio www.blogto.com/sports_play/...

Here's a (ufoesque) Lenticular Cloud picture I entered in a recent Royal Meteorological Society Photography competition. Wasn't successful but I always liked the picture. 🧪 🎨 #photography #SciArt #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Full Moon is 0901UT 15 December 2024. Seriously low on the horizon here. Been ages since I captured a Full one on or near a horizon. Here's a pic from June 2022. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Fun administrative times if you’re a business owner. #politics Via 680 News Toronto #Ontario to match federal government’s two-month sales #tax holiday offered by the federal Liberals by removing Provincial Sales Tax from items not currently covered by existing provincial rebates.

“I set up my sound and tried to get a little close to what David was doing, which was not too far away from my sound at that time.” #musicmatters 🎵 🎸 www.loudersound.com/features/lee...

A 25% #tariff would cause considerable damage to the economies of Canada and the United States. #trade 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (#ACS3) satellite in a 6 sec exposure time shot this evening at 20:11 CET. Launched on 23 April 2024, the sail was deployed at the end of August. The satellite is slowly tumbling. Its brightness can very from pass to pass, depending on the solar angle.

Having left X (Twitter) the only thing I miss is not seeing and hearing posts by Duncan Chisholm. 🎵 🎻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #musicmatters #folk #folkrock

Peak 2024. “They (Starbucks) need to have a better system,” said Coresa Barrino, a Starbucks patron at New York’s LaGuardia Airport Terminal B earlier this month who said she had been waiting ***10*** minutes and counting for her coffee.” Via CNBC

As humankind navigates a world of fakery, Capricorn One is a better watch in 2024 than it was in 1977. #film #society

Colossus: “In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love.” Dr. Forbin: “Never!” #AI #colossus 🖥️ #computing

The Circus comes to town. Via Wall Street Journal Trump says he will nominate World Wrestling Entertainment co-founder Linda McMahon to lead Education Department. “We will send Education BACK TO THE STATES, and Linda will spearhead that effort.”

Trump to nominate Dr. Oz, celebrity TV host, former U.S. Senate candidate, Administrator Centres for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Trump … “America is facing a #Healthcare Crisis, and there may be no Physician more qualified and capable than Dr. Oz to Make America Healthy Again.”

Via CNBC Stock of Dental care supplier Henry Schein ⬆️ as speculators bet Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary, RFK Jr., could recommend removing fluoride from U.S. water system, leading to a boom in dental visits. youtu.be/0he-LZNzVg0?...

Watched episode 01 of #Silo Season 2. The quality remains. I’m happy Hugh Howey’s ‘Wool’ book series is surviving the transition to television. Another good Howey story ‘Beacon 23’ sadly did not. #SciFi