Month: September 2021

  • Fall Colours

    During my exhausting trail half marathon this past weekend I may have tired myself out good and proper, but I managed to keep enough mental focus to nab some photos of my adventures through the autumn foliage. Of course when one is running an epic wilderness race carrying proper camera equipment is out of the

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  • Race Report from the Rivers Edge

    Sunday Runday and I mostly rested. Having spent about three and a half hours running an ultra-style half marathon yesterday, the first actual bibbed, chipped, other-people-on-route race I’ve run in nearly two years, I was feeling very tired. By the time I crawled out of bed yesterday morning, the folks who tackled the much longer

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  • Friday Yeast Fail

    I banked my evening post on some cast iron skillet focaccia bread. The plan was to bake a zesty round of generously seasoned pan bread, a twelve inch disc of leavened goodness, baked to perfection in the oven and sliced up for some Friday night snacking. I followed a simple recipe: some flour, yeast, olive

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  • Apple Harvest

    The local radio (yes, I still listen to the radio) was discussing apples this afternoon. The public broadcaster hosts an afternoon general interest show where a pair or trio of hosts chatter about local news topics, update on weather and traffic, interview local businesses, and generally have a daily topic encouraging people to engage and

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  • Equinox

    four hundred and sixtymeters per secondtracking a prograde elliptical orbitan average of nearlyone hundred and fifty million kilometersaround a nuclear fireballimmenseseven hundred thousand kilometers widea wet ball of rockbarely sixty three hundred kilometers thickaskew on her axistwenty-three degreestouches a mathematical momentbriefly marking the progress throughcold space againstever-shifting durations of light uponher surfacenudging atmospheric variationstriggering biological

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