I saw a bit of wildlife in the city today, as I was getting on my bike.
Category Archive: Pets & Animals
Nov 04 2011
Falling leaves
The leaves on the trees are changing colour into rich reds, golds, yellows and browns, before falling to the ground in St. James Park. Their decay will mix into the loam and fertilize the soil to feed the trees again, as well as the grass and flowering plants when they emerge next year. This incredibly …
Aug 04 2011
Behind the lens of Deadly 60
(Via BBC Earth) A journey behind the lens to see exactly how Steve and his Deadly team capture the lightning speed movements of the deadly Eyelash Viper. Filming a Pit Viper striking a water balloon in slow motion By Steve Backshall To get this fantastic action shot, the team took a nifty bit of kit into …
Aug 01 2011
The Leslie Street Spit
It was another hot day in Toronto today. El Franco and I went out on our bikes to donate some no-longer-needed books to a local library branch and soon realized the temperature wasn’t exactly conducive to cycling around the city streets, which is what we’d originally intended to do. The heat was sultry with barely …
Jun 03 2011
What’s that smell?
We don’t have a large back yard where we live. It’s large enough to eat dinner al fresco [photo], but not so big that it needs a lot of maintenance. Which is great, as far as I’m concerned; I like just having a few pots and urns and baskets filled with flowers dotted around the …
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I was born in England, spent part of my childhood in Zambia and eventually immigrated to Canada. This is a blog about the news and events in my life, my interests in politics, religion, human rights, science, reason, and the odd post here and there about my cats.
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