The Head of the Charles regatta is one of Rowing’s premier events. In High School we pretty much considered it to be the “Nationals” for the fall season. It’s important enough to have it’s own wikipedia entry. I first raced the Charles in my first year of rowing in 1998. It was also the only [...]

I’m the first to admit that I was not the best student in high school or college. I’ll admit that I’m still not the best student now. In a way high school and college were phases of life I had to complete to get from one point to the other in my quest to become [...]

Adam was a groomsman in his Best man’s wedding this weekend. I forgot my beloved Pentax so I borrowed a Nikon D50 with a great lens from the groom’s father for the event. I’m not sure if I’ll get around to blogging it soon or not. So here’s a quick lunch time preview of some [...]

I’m not sure what’s going on this year but parts of my yard are covered in mushrooms. I could understand if the mushrooms were growing in the forest around my house, but these relatively big mushrooms are growing in the center of my yard in clumps. They’ve been turning black with time. I wonder what [...]

My neighbour has a few dozen horses. Many of them are beautiful Percheron draft horses that actually get used to pull sleigh rides, hay rides and to plow fields. From our yard we can only see one of his fields and our puppy Cooper finds them fascinating. A few weeks ago a mare and her [...]

Ever know you that you must have a dozen pictures of a specific object in your archives somewhere yet have no idea where to find the originals? I know I have pictures of Adam’s bike as it was in my external harddrive… somewhere. But I couldn’t find any pictures of only her on my already [...]

Our house is surrounded by trees, many of the trees are oak trees. Our trees produce a lot of acorns. The acorns are currently covering the driveway, the deck, and the rest of the yard. Adam has a very specific place he has to park in order to not have the acorns dent his car. [...]