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July, 2009

  1. The Real Reason I Keep Blogging, 7 Years Later

    July 23, 2009 by Gail

    Next week this blog turns seven (break out the birthday cake!), and I swear, if there’s still internet when I’m too old to type anymore and it hasn’t turned into something totally unprintable, give me a copy of this website so I can reclaim some of my memory! Because apparently I have to write stuff down because it doesn’t stick in my brain anymore.

    sign that I'm getting older? can't remember a damn thing...

    Christine and I met Hilde for dinner at a neighbourhood pizzeria in Rome, and on this paper table cloth, underneath my tiramisu, I wrote out my activities of only a few hours before. It took some brain-wracking:

    June 20, 2009

    The Vatican (+ cupola) – I climbed 330+ stairs without stopping! –
    Castel Sant’Angelo
    Piazza Navona
    Best coffee in Rome (according to Christine) – La Casa del… uh…
    Pantheon
    Basilica San Clemente
    search for pasta maker

    The pizzeria itself was marvellous brain food, I’m happy to report. Of course, I can’t remember the name of the place now…

    Buon appetito!

    Buon appetito!

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  2. Breakfast??

    July 22, 2009 by Gail

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  3. Princess

    July 22, 2009 by Gail

    Princess

    She was a perfect little model, with perfectly painted red toenails — as all Princesses have, of course!

    painted princess toes

    I am so excited to be hired to shoot her mum’s wedding this fall, I wish the date were even closer. I’m already thinking of how much fun the reception’s going to be!

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  4. Garlic Scapes

    July 21, 2009 by Gail

    garlic scapes garlic scapes

    They came in my organic food bin yesterday. They look mostly like green onions, but taste like a mix of garlic and onion.

    A little info from Mama Earth Organics:

    Garlic scapes, which only appear on the finest hardneck garlic varieties, curl upward as they grow, ultimately straighten, and then grow little seed-like bulbs. Astonishingly, they’re usually discarded before harvesting in the most of the U.S. but are considered a delicacy by most chefs. Contained within the garlic scape is a great deal of flavour, although the stalk never does reach the level of the pungent garlic bulb itself. When the garlic scapes are still in full curl, they are tender and delicious. Anyone who wishes to add the taste of garlic to a recipe that calls for onions will find that using garlic scape will provide enough of a bite to fulfill the purpose of the onion, as well as give the recipe an added dash of aroma and flavour.

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  5. Biplane Ride Over Ottawa: Videoclips

    July 20, 2009 by Gail

    This is my favourite of the bunch. You can see Parliament Hill below for most of the clip:

    The other nine videos shot from takeoff to landing can be viewed here. The biplane was a 1939 Waco UPF-7. For more information about the biplane rides, I refer you to the Canada Aviation Museum website.

    Update: I put together some of the clips to make one video and added music.

    Biplane Ride Over Ottawa from Gail Edwin-Fielding on Vimeo.

    July 19, 2009
    Canada Aviation Museum
    Rockcliffe Airport, Ottawa

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  6. Biplane Evermore

    July 19, 2009 by Gail

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  7. Flying Over Ottawa

    July 19, 2009 by Gail

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  8. The Ottawa Preview

    July 19, 2009 by Gail

    adjustment

    Ottawa

    GEF_1811_edit

    locks

    I’ve edited and uploaded about a dozen photos so far [slideshow here]. The weather was all over the place, but I had a great Saturday nevertheless!

    More photos to come…

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  9. Wacky Weather, Ottawa!

    July 18, 2009 by Gail

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  10. Canadian Centennial Of Flight

    July 17, 2009 by Gail

    Canada is celebrating 100 years of powered flight in 2009.

    Official Website: http://canadiancentennialofflight.ca
    Air Force website: http://canadiancentennialofflight.ca/airforce/
    Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53984079560
    CAPA Website: http://www.capa-acca.com
    Baddeck Website: http://www.flightofthesilverdart.ca
    Hawk One Website: http://www.hawkone.ca
    Blog: http://canadiancentennialofflight.blogspot.com/

    Right now the weather in Ottawa looks unfavourable for flying this weekend, which means I’ll have to try for a biplane ride another day. Who knows, maybe the forecasters are wrong?

    In any case, I’m going to check out whatever aviation exhibits there are in Ottawa celebrating the Centennial of Flight and maybe even get myself to an airport next week to see if I can photograph part of the Century Flight, an armada of more than 100 small aircraft making a commemorative journey from coast to coast, beginning in Boundary Bay, BC, and ending in Baddeck, Nova Scotia.

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