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spiders have flown

The garden spiders have flown the coop, and set up all round the garden. I don’t know how many of their little webs I had to scoop out of the deck before I started staining it.

(incidentally, if you like spider pics, Opo Terser makes wonderful ones. My desktop now features this little cutie [caution: will squick out arachnophobes])

spiders on their birthday

spiders on their birthday
We found thousands of these yellow and black spider hatchlings in the garden this morning. Happy birthday, little spiders!

They are apparently (European) Garden Spiders, Araneus diadematus.

(I over colour-corrected the original photo; it’s here if you preferred it.)

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this cubicle protected by Flying Dog Pudge

(Flying Dog Pudge is one of Catherine‘s collages.)

bike, loader, snow

Someone was inexpertly practicing scales on a brass instrument nearby. The wind brought the smell of an early spring barbecue.

Lucky

lucky in her favourite snoozing space, 1994 Lucky, in her favourite snoozing space, 1994.

i really do remember when all this was fields: fresh sweet cron

fresh sweet cron At the corner of Warden & Steeles, there was a little farm. It’s gone now. I think they were better at growing than spelling.

inexplicable snow balloons

Landed on our deck last night, and are now snowed in:
inexplicable_snow_balloons

Chris Coole at The Local

Chris Coole plays a relaxed set at The Local every Sunday. He had his new custom guitar last Sunday; it looks and sounds great.

He played his version of Michael Hurley‘s Slurf Song. He let me upload it, so here it is: Slurf Song [mp3].

I’ve just started using Picasa, and its ease of use is great. It does all you (well, okay, I) really need of a photo editor, with some nice effects. It also does cool things like handle raw images, and uses Google Earth to geotag images. Here’s one I prepared earlier: