Halloween in the time of Covid-19 - Self serve trick or treat table

Candies in bags on table, carved pumpkins

 

James Randi Remembered

Since Randi just died, I'll tell this story - just before he started a lecture I saw in Toronto, he opened up his jacket and pretended to fiddle with the wire that led from his lapel microphone to the radio pack on his belt. Then, during the lecture, he 'accidentally' struck the other microphone that was on the lectern with the back of his hand. If it had been on, the microphone would have made a loud ringing noise. A little while later, he said something like "Many of you think I'm speaking into this microphone", then stepped away while still talking, "but I'm really using a radio mike.". Even though he made what he did obvious, many of the people were astonished. So the lesson I took home was nobody is too smart to be fooled!

Randi speaking at the Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Ontario, August 8, 2014

 Randi talks about Geller

Doing a rope trick

Getting a cake - his birthday was August 7.

Q and A after "An Honest Liar".

Hover fly, not bee, asleep in a rose

 looks like a bee, but isn't - it's been sleeping in this rose, which gets the morning sun, for at least three nights.

Fall Colours 2020

Dottie by roses

Jones Creek  - Thousand Islands National Park

Twin Creek trail near Morrisburg, Ontario

Brockville

Brockville

Holy Trinity Church, Cornwall, Ontario

Mushrooms on fallen birch

Birch Sunset

Old apple tree

Granny Smith Apple Tree

Red berries, birches

 

Mars big and bright tonight

 

Rainbow with anti-crepuscular rays