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Category: Tales of the Absurd
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Archive for ◊ April, 2007 ◊
30
Apr
2007
Sleepy Poodles and Saganaki
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Category: Food + Drink, Friends
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I met up with some friends in the late afternoon for some outdoor music and, later, Greek food along the Danforth. The poodles, Dolce and Coco, were wiped out by a trip to the beaches earlier in the day and let me take some snaps of their noses while they napped:
The humans, on the other hand, were more animated:
30
Apr
2007
Khalsa Day Parade
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Category: Culture + Society, Toronto
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After returning from the Islands, I encountered crowds of people wearing orange walking along Lakeshore and turning north onto York Street. It turned out to be the annual Khalsa Day Parade, and the large Sikh population in the Greater Toronto Area turned out for the event in huge numbers (50,000-60,000?).
All photos here.
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29
Apr
2007
It Was As Every Sunday Should Be
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Category: Out + About
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Sunday completely made up for Saturday’s doldrums: photography, ferries, islands, friends, food! With plenty of sunshine and landing in the middle of an unexpected Sikh parade (celebrating Khalsa Day), to boot.
All pictures from today can be found here. I’m still uploading, so this set will grow.
I started off at Toronto harbour, because it was the kind of day when I wanted to be near the water. I really miss the ocean!
A roll-up-the-pants-and-lie-in-the-sun-kind-of-day.
Or the kind of day I’d spend in a boat. This one, if I had the requisite cash:
But, more realistically, it’d be one of these:
29
Apr
2007
Urbanscape
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Category: Toronto
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A family taking in a leisurely Sunday on Ward Island, Toronto.
The sun emerged today as forecasted and I got a bunch of decent shots from around the harbour front, the ferry, Centre Island, and Ward Island. And the day’s not over yet! More shooting this afternoon/evening.
28
Apr
2007
The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow
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Category: Photography, Videoclips
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Today was one of those days where I wanted to do a whole lot of nothing (the totally blah weather outside wasn’t helping), but I thought I should try and salvage it by browsing through my photo archives to put together a wedding gift for next month. I came across this photo from the summer of 2005, taken during one of the Celebration of Light fireworks competition nights. It was in my last batch of Vancouver photos; a whole year passed before I was able to return.
When I looked at the picture the song title from the musical “Annie” popped into my head, which should come as no surprise since I must’ve watched it a hundred times (at least!) as a youngster in Winnipeg. I rooted around YouTube for a video and found this little homegrown clip, which at first glance looked like a parody because the singer is, at times, incomprehensible, but I watched it all the way through and I think this was made in earnest! You decide:
Are your ears still ringing?
According to the forecast the weather should improve tomorrow. I’ll get my camera out and get shooting again, which should chase the blahs away.
28
Apr
2007
Error Log Jam
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Category: gailatlarge.com
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The website went down while I was sleeping, and I’ve been trying to figure out the problem using the error logs. To get the site back up, I tried to rework the .htaccess files but in the end I had to delete them and start over. I don’t know what’s generating all the error logs now, but at least I got the site back up. The rest I’ll deal with after more sleep.
26
Apr
2007
Nature’s Gold
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Category: Photography
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An abrupt halt on the path to the subway upon leaving work, so I could take a photo of this yellow plant. The colour was so vivid amidst the grey of wet concrete, it stopped me in my tracks. It could be more in focus, but I was hurrying to get home to pick up the car to go to flight school. Will try again another day.
26
Apr
2007
Protected: The Other Waiting Game
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Category: PWP-3
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26
Apr
2007
On Top of the World
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Category: Aviation, Student Life
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May 1, 2005. Our highest altitude in the Tri-Pacer together.
Ironically, I nearly didn’t attend my meteorology class… because of the weather. It was ugly when I left — rain and strong wind. But thankfully it eased off while I was leaving the city centre and eventually stopped raining.
The instructor said earlier, before the break, that he loved flying above the clouds. He said once you get above the clouds and fly around and on top of them, that’s when you get the true feeling of aviation.
I was getting antsy because I hadn’t heard the results of my echocardiogram last Friday, so I phoned the aviation medical examiner today. His assistant told me they hadn’t heard yet from the cardiologist; the waiting game continues.
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