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Sunset

I find that viewing some of these images on a laptop screen robs them of their vibrant colors, even if the monitor is calibrated.
Sunset over Gatineau from around the old E.B. Eddy plant.

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Great Horned Owl

Took an injured Mourning Dove to the Wild Bird Care Centre today.
Got a tour of the place – several displays of bird related stuff.
Kinda liked the graphical quality of this xray.

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Banana plane

Red Bull held a Flugtag event on Saturday on the Ottawa River by the Museum of Civilization. 90% + of the colorful entries plummet directly to the water on take off. This Banana boat plane actually glided for several seconds before touching down gently into the water.

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The Billings Estate museum hosts theme evenings throughout the year.
Joephine, a member of the Meetup Ottawa photographer group, arranged for models and shooters to converge on the grounds for an action packed evening of ribald debauchery  in the 1920s.
Here, the philanderer gets caught in his shenanigans.

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Train station

Heading home from visiting the cat sanctuary at Cassandra’s place, I passed this ancient, “out of use” train station on St. Joseph Blvd. Couldn’t find any info on it.

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Scruffy

Cassandra dropped off 3 cats for a visit when she needed to travel. That was over a year ago. They have already been featured and are now part of our household. Since then, she has taken in 4 new street cats – one of which just had 3 kittens.
This is Scruffy, the first stray to be adopted.

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Angie

Angie is working on a documentary using the staged house as backdrop.

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Bus

Cassandra & Mike are painting a school bus for the owner who plans to tour Canada to sell his invention.

Gotta see this little toy in action:
http://www.knockyourselfout.ca/

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It was motocross weekend at the local Sand Del Lee race track.
After the first race, I had a scad of jump shots – not inspirational after the first few.
The start, however, was exciting with spills & chills.

Motocross racing – start

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Saturday PM – a no rain, low heat, low humidity, no ambition for yard work day. Took a drive eastward, ended up on the islands of Long Sault. Heading home, we saw a sunset, then the Ogdensburg-Prescott bridge near Johnstown. … Continue reading →