I spent five minutes yesterday morning watching the shoreline antics of a mink. The mink was swimming in the shallow water of Georgian Bay in front of my home. It was checking along about 120 feet of shoreline for its breakfast, dancing in that odd humpty backed lope they have over the shoreline rocks and then slipping back into the water and diving under the surface to emerge onto flat rocks just below or just above the surface of the water. The bay was calm yesterday morning. After a bit, the mink brought something up after a dive and carried it into shore. Looked like a small fish. Glad breakfast got caught. I went in to have mine.
Month: May 2007
fishing on Hogg Bay
near Victoria Harbour, this inlet of Georgian Bay is known as Hogg Bay
near Cat Island
an old (2002) photo taken with a Canon G1 — Cat Island is near Beaufort, South Carolina, USA….image manipulated heavily using Paint Shop Pro 9.
sepia dock dusk
original photo taken near Cat Island, just east of Beaufort, South Carolina in 2002….. not a great photo but with some heavy whacking in Paint Shop Pro 9 a stylized result.
facebook, my experiment
I was curious about facebook and decided to open up an account and see what all the fuss is about. Heard a CBC radio report about it and thought I would try a little experiment.
First hurdle to get over: of the email systems that facebook supports to help you quickly import contacts and find friends, my primary email account is based in an email system they don’t support. Workaround: I opened up a new hotmail account, imported contacts to it, then used it in facebook to select contacts to invite as friends.
Second and third hurdles: networks – neither my high school or college were listed….I found out how to request that they be added to the list of high schools and colleges. When you do this you can check a box and get an email notice when the requested is acted upon. No emails yet.
Things I like: oddly enough I like “the wall” and the overall look and feel of the interface.
I guess I have been “on” about four times in the past few days since I started my account. I learn something each time.
Smoothing it down – a poem
I thought of writing the Dremel Tool people,
another use for their fine little power tool,
the evening I used the grinding wheel attachment
to smooth down the hand grips of the wheels
of my mother’s wheel chair.
Dings and bumps from door frames
and the metal edges of her bed frame.
She sat in the chair.
We watched the sparks fly.
I tested it by running my hand
along the grips. Finding the rough spots.
She let me work around the whole circle
of the grip, then she tested it.
“It’s still rough here.”
I let my fingers follow hers.
The paper-like skin,
the flesh receded,
knuckles, tendons, bones.
(an old poem of mine that I decided to post here, it is also part of my April 2007 issue of bluetyger magazine, which can be found at http://www.bluetyger.ca
frozen bay
care
Originally uploaded by canuckshutterer (W.J. Gibson).
a ‘painting” I did awhile back using software on my pc…. I still like it so here it is blogged for viewing.
Classic Television through my local library
I have been benefiting from my local library and inter-library loan to watch some old televisions series of very high quality. Poldark, The Jewel in the Crown, and Danger UXB. Makes most of current television programming look very, very shabby.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Just read The Sun Over Breda, you should read it too. A exciting account of the battles and daily life of Spanish troops fighting in the first quarter of the 1600s. It is interesting to read about the sappers tunneling in 1624 having just read about the tunneling done by Canadian troops before the battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917.
I am off to the library to find more by this author.
