I think it would make everyone feel good if Ottawa Public Health put out a heat warning.

In a quirky way, spring is coming. We used to be losing three and a half minutes of daylight per day, but from now on it's less than three minutes. So still losing daylight but the curve is trending upward, toward spring.

Wow. Freaky cool.

LL Bean shows proper technique for taking a heavy wooden canoe into ice cold late October water without life jackets.

Lake Huron today near Kincardine looking west, a giant reflecting pool (webcam)

Tangerine Bank sends me email showing how investments not only rise in value, but can travel backwards in time.

Needs some Cheezits next.

My favourite webcam, on Lake Huron.

Family member just asked me to turn down the Art of the Fugue as it is too loud and too rousing. Go, JSBach.

This tiny hemlock has started a long journey toward being a future giant of the forest. The elegant camping fork is for scale. Hemlocks were common around here until they were cut because their bark is used in tanning leather. This one is in the Gatineau Hills.

Boulder split in half, Gatineau Hills. Ice? Tree roots? Can't tell.

Wild apples ripening, Gatineau Hills today.

“In our nation’s 246 year history there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump.” Dick Cheney

And they have her seated at the capcom's post! Well of course. And in a NASA flight suit. Go flight.

GREAT NEWS!! #CorgiCrew washingtonpost.com/world/polish-i…

I'm betting this is the first #Vogue cover ever to show sandbags.

Good chance to see the space station tonite over Ottawa. Appears around 9:55/9:56 pm low in the WSW, and goes almost directly overhead ending in ESE. Clear white light visible 6 minutes. (Many sightings this time of year are later at night than this one.)

Maybe they need R1 buses for the R1 buses.

Amazing pic of the Great Lakes from #NOAA satellite (US weather service) — the separation between clear air over water and puffy white clouds forming over land as it warms. #scicomm