Puffball Puzzle

Another sign of Fall - puffballs... but these were right next to this mushroom:

Green Glowing Plastic Skull Halloween Decoration

Cheap! Covered in Plastic Crystals! Powered by two AAA batteries. Does exactly what it's supposed to do, unlike the Mitchell-Hedges Skull of Doom

Post election late thoughts

Yes, the CTV Stéphane Dion interview was bad journalism, particularly right before the election - the question that Dion stumbled over was hard to understand even in English, and it's not news that Dion doesn't speak English very well. I'd have explained the question in French and let him answer in English.

Fall Colours

St. Raphael's Ruins

The stonemason's art laid bare.
Ruins of St. Raphael's Church, Ontario. Often used as a venue for concerts - acoustics remain impressive. 19998 County Rd 18, Williamstown, ON K0C 2J0 

Laying Cable

The Danish barge Henry P. Lading going upriver to lay 7.9 km of cable that will connect the Wolfe Island wind power project near Kingston to the main grid

Josiah Henson House

Josiah Henson's house, near Dresden, Ontario. Henson escaped from slavery to Upper Canada, which at the time was the only territory where a former slave could not be captured and forcibly returned to a slave state. He founded a colony for freed slaves and was the model for the lead character in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.


He was a Mason and belonged to the Detroit lodge - he made this chair. I don't know if the three links meant he was also an oddfellow.