Wildlife

Apr. 17th, 2025 06:05 pm
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I was heading back to the bus stop to wait for my ride back to the house from today's visitation, and was not expecting to see this young deer munching on vegetation near the top of the ravine.

There they were, though.

Wow.

(Took me over a day to get the picture uploaded, and I apologize for that.)

A Deer in Orléans
dewline: self-portrait, taken while drawing (Sketching)
Wallack's got back to me with an answer about the options they have either in stock or available to order:

Holbein (Japan)
Colleen Pencils (Thailand)
Bruynzeel (Holland)
Faber-Castell (Germany)
Caran d'Ache (Switzerland)
Derwent (UK)
Lyra (Germany)
dewline: Highway Sign version of "Ottawa the City" Icon (ottawa-gatineau)
I didn't go out for anything after work last night. Weather was too messy.

Maybe tonight?
dewline: Highway Sign version of "Ottawa the City" Icon (ottawa-gatineau)
Well, that's what I'm calling it, since that art supply shop called it home since before my family moved here to Ottawa in 1985.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/plan-to-revamp-downtown-ottawa-block-sparks-debate-over-intensification-1.7172642

Not saying that the new housing shouldn't be built. I do think the current tenants deserve better-arranged supports, for starters, though...
dewline: Highway Sign version of "Ottawa the City" Icon (city life)
Some day, I want to do something like this for Ottawa:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/first-person-ode-to-montreal-mile-end-1.7092013

I've lived here since the summer of 1985, so...
dewline: Highway Sign version of "Ottawa the City" Icon (ottawa-gatineau)
We had a proper snowfall overnight in Ottawa-Gatineau starting yesterday around 4 PM local time.

Whether it's going to stay that way so as to allow skating on the Rideau Canal during Winterlude this year is still uncertain.
dewline: Highway Sign version of "Ottawa the City" Icon (ottawa-gatineau)
Early December 2023 - Hiawatha Park and Radisson

The fog was just perfect in the moment on December 10, 2023. Imagine my surprise to find Google Photos "stitching" three shots together into this.
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Following up a bit on local comics creators and suchlike.

One friendly acquaintance of mine from the long-dissolved Orléans Comic Jam sessions, Dominic Bercier, has a Kickstarter fundraiser/project going at the moment. Timing might be tight for you if you're interested, I understand that...

Anyway, here's the link.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renaissancebp/exclusive-holiday-card-delivered-by-santa

If you're interested in Dominic's published work to date more generally:

https://www.bercier.ca/

The local publisher that Dominic's more recently tying in with:

https://pressesrenaissancepress.ca/
dewline: Logo: Open comic book with Cdn. Leaf Symbol (comic books)
Steve Lieber mentioned on BlueSky recently that the comics artform and industry alike can benefit from an updating of this page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150415200242/http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/lists/lists_and_links/30269/

I mentioned in reply that I could probably make some time to update the Ottawa-Gatineau section. Sadly, we lost Suzanne Marsden three years ago, and the Ottawa Comix Jam sessions were her Big Project of keeping the community connected to itself and the larger city and comics creators' community of North America.

Writers, artists of all branch-disciplines, and so on...

More on this to come, I think.
dewline: Facepalming upon learning bad news (bad news)
I think we're going to have a Problem despite our attention to the details in recent years:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/bus-route-changes-ottawa-1.7018834

The networking to counter this plan is already underway, partly because we were already talking amongst ourselves and with city council. This is a good thing. We need to keep building on this.
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I saw flowers still in bloom outside this afternoon.

Also, a groundhog from less than two metres away. We noted each other's existence for a second and moved onward with our respective days.
dewline: Highway Sign version of "Ottawa the City" Icon (ottawa-gatineau)
Well, it wasn't a deputation. That's apparently not until next month, which is going to...not complicate at least one other appointment at the end of November. I am going to have to deal with lost income for however long I have to be ready to deliver it on that day, I think.

What did happen was further training, as well as face time directly with three city councillors. Leiper, Troster and Devine. Also, contact with some of the staffers of other members of city council.

Focus is still on mental health, poverty reduction and housing, because the city budget-building for 2024 is underway, and the staff's under direction to keep the rate increase to 2.5 %.

What I could have felt better about? More than a half-dozen of the 50 attendees masking up, for one. Seeing working air purifiers in the room for another. Neither of those things happened, though, so...
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If memory serves...I've spotted examples of these over this past year:

- butterflies
- beetles
- ants
- crickets
- centipedes
- roaches (strictly outdoors, I hope)
- house flies
- mosquitoes
- grasshoppers
- mites

Not a complete list by any means.
dewline: Highway Sign version of "Ottawa the City" Icon (ottawa-gatineau)
...to advocate for extra municipal funding for mental health support programmes this morning. I've printed out three drafts of my "deputation" - city hall slang for a speech expected to last no more than five minutes - and am not sure that I'm properly set up for this.

I am, of course, terrified of being reinfected by COVID-19 by way of public transit. Not that I have any realistic alternatives to that to resort to right now for various reasons and excuses.

I haven't visited the downtown core of Ottawa-Gatineau in over a year. There have surely been additional changes to the neighbourhood that I don't know to expect.
dewline: Graphic: animator's light-table with Cdn. Leaf Symbol (animation)
Yes, there still is such an event. The Pandemic hasn't killed it. I hope everyone who goes, is careful and has fun. In that order, please?

https://apt613.ca/tips-on-what-to-see-at-oiaf-2023/

Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out an alternative to epsilon Eridani for Axanar's host star. This leaves me with a history question: how much of the local galactic region was already charted out by the Vulcans before first contact with Earth?

I don't think they knew about Axanar - the planet or the species - going by "ENT: Fight or Flight". So, while the first contact between Earth and Axanar may well have happened at epsilon Eridani, I don't think that species' homeworld should be there as well.
dewline: Quotation: There's no point to an apocalypse if you still have to work (apocalypse)
1. Thwaites' Glacier is no more.

2. I'm not living in any of the affected houses. I've learned from my circles of family and friends, though, that basement window wells are...problematic as well during such rainfall.

3. Another side effect of recent rainfall here. One of the buildings affected houses a past employer of mine. I want to check in with them on Monday morning out of concern.

4. And yeah, we may have voted badly last year.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/residents-councillors-flash-flood-1.6933278

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