Sharon and Jacques' Excellent Blog

Well it’s been a long and cold winter and it’s finally over. Not sure that what we have today (its cold, blowing and raining) is much better but at least almost all the snow has melted except for one recalcitrant blob in a dark corner of the garden. I was tempted to take a power [...]

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To friends, family and visitors, I hope you have a safe and happy Holiday Season. Sharon and I have been doing a fair bit of enjoying the last few months. On Dec 24, Patrick and Stephen hosted an extended Christmas Eve for all of the respective families and children. To see the entire album click [...]

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I spent several days looking at different ways to post-process images to redo some of the art work at home. I came up with the following using a combination of Photoshop, filters and Nikon Capture NX. {wp-gallery-remote: gallery=0; rootalbum=78682; showalbumtitle=true; showsubalbums=true; showimagesheader=true; imagefilter=include:78683,78687,78690,78693;} My personal favourite is the last image. Something about the nature of [...]

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Ontbirds (an excellent birding mailing list for Ontario) reported a Ruff, a shorebird and also a bird I’ve never seen before just outside of Angus, Ontario. I decided that I would give finding it a try rather than going to Long Point as the weather was a little on the rainy side further south. The [...]

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I was back at Beamer Point CA outside of Grimsby, Ontario on April 6. Contrary to expectation, it was very sunny with a cold north wind blowing off Lake Ontario. This created perfect blue skies which made it extremely difficult to see any birds. The birds that were seen were generally very high. The net [...]

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