If I were paying attention, I would’ve taken the camera out earlier! I just caught the tail end of the lunar eclipse, and I ought to have waited longer for the eclipse to fade out except my fingers were freezing, I had no tripod, and I was holding David’s heavy 80-200mm (fully manual) SLR lens. [...]

Monday, February 18 was declared a statutory holiday in Ontario last October by Premier Dalton McGuinty, a day already observed in Alberta and Saskatchewan. I always wished for it in BC while I lived there, since the span of time between New Year’s Day and Easter was FAR too long to go without a holiday. [...]

Beano was there first, and to my amazement Xena actually deigned to lie beside him.
A new milestone today: I injected Beano BY MYSELF, for the first time, completely unassisted! Kate’s been helping me for the past couple of weeks by holding him while I did the injections, but this morning I told her I would [...]

With the colder winter we’re having, I can’t stop eating… at work it seems I’m constantly eating, and I remarked on it last Friday with a colleague who never seems to eat all (I’m sure he does, just not as openly or at my leisurely pace) — how I’ve always got a piece of fruit [...]

Hailing from Venezuela, the elegant Dida has her own throne, as you can see.
View On Black
A black and white variation here.
This is about all Oscar would allow me to take of him:

Maybe next time he’ll permit me to take his portrait. I’m banking on my patience over his shyness.

I had to run some errands yesterday, but made a couple of pitstops in places along the lakeshore that reminded me of Arliin: the Argonaut Rowing Club and the National Yacht Club. I wanted to take advantage of the break in the wintry weather of late and try out the polarizing filter I bought last [...]

The 2007 index of Arliin’s comments has been a long time coming; I found putting together 2007 was more difficult than 2006 because it was getting closer to the present reality that there would never be any more words from Arliin.
I also had the impression that Arliin wrote fewer comments in 2007 compared to [...]

I’m done with winter. Why? Only in this current wild and woolly Toronto Winter of 07/08 would doing laundry require crampons to prevent a treacherous fall while stepping outside carrying a laundry bag before going down to the basement to use the washing machine. Even the raccoons are smart enough to stay away from the [...]

Now that the day is nearly finished, I’m feeling a little less anti-Valentine’s. When I got home the pets rushed to greet me and all was well again. So here’s a little tribute to the unconditional love from pets, some super-early Beatles:

zany Xena

Old Bean
And, from me, one of my favourite Beatles tunes, because of the [...]

A redux from 2005, because this photo gets a lot of hits every year around this time.
Original post: Death by Chocolate, or Happy Valentine’s Day
Sadly, I just can’t get into the spirit of this day, not just for obvious reasons but because on this day two years ago we also lost Vinny.