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Hello, woodpecker.

Pileated woodpecker on a phone pole
Originally uploaded by mendel

I meant to post this ages ago, but forgot, and only remembered when I was pulling the FreshBooks Festivus pictures off of my phone.
I was walking along a street near Bridgehead in Hintonburg in early December and heard a CLONK CLONK CLONK CLONK right beside me. I [...]

Posted 21 December 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , ,

The growing pains of gentrification

Candice and I live in Westboro, a neighbourhood of Ottawa which is sort of the Next Big Thing here. It’s got many of the things you’d expect to make a neighbourhood get trendy: it runs along an urban shopping strip and the waterfront, it’s a ten-minute drive along a parkway to downtown, it’s got good [...]

Posted 01 May 2007 † Rich § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,