/blog/The_Eskimo/index.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198 Welcome to my blog! I'm a cool guy docümenting his life on a daily basis... and his struggle with cats. :)Cheers! :D-E /blog/139/post_98244.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= (If you are wondering how a Canadian voter registration card looks like, this is the one I got a few weeks ago )So... here we go again, to the polls. May 2nd is the Big Day for us. I've mixed feeli Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:52:09 -0800 /blog/139/post_98244.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_98163.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](Photo of my patio and backyard, last weekend)From where I live geographically, I "sit" on top of Vermont. So imagine Vermont on steroids... and this is Southern Québec's climate. Seasons ar Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:17:25 -0800 /blog/139/post_98163.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_98132.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](On board "The Canadian", about to enter the Rockies. June 2005)The other day, I was sorting my photos. I want to show to my sisters some of my travels, and I stopped at this batch of photos, a Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:59:34 -0800 /blog/139/post_98132.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_98070.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](Photo taken a few days ago, from my patio)I know that you all want to see picturesque wintry scenes. You all want to see Montréal in winter...To feel the bitterly cold temperature, the wind Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:57:48 -0800 /blog/139/post_98070.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_98018.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= Yesterday was budget time in Québec. It is interesting, and somewhat depressing how people react.Long before it got published, just about every pundit predicted there will be tax hikes, and they wer Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:50:35 -0800 /blog/139/post_98018.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97999.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](Entrance to Sunken Meadow beach, Cape Cod, where so many of my thoughts are lingering. In the forefront, my bicycle, at a time, pre 9/11, which was easy to cross the US border in a non-standar Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:05:15 -0800 /blog/139/post_97999.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97791.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](Photos of my dad...)This blog entry is the 3rd part of a serie of blog entries called "blogitude". You can read Part 1 and two here: Blogitude, part 1: Clothing is required, beyond this point. Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:34:09 -0800 /blog/139/post_97791.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97695.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](Photo taken last summer. Three horses on Dundas street near Yonge street, in downtown Toronto Ontario)Words (and pictures) have their own weight. Yet, it is up to individuals to hear and to s Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:16:53 -0800 /blog/139/post_97695.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97506.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](Photo taken in Provincetown, Cape Cod, summer 2007.)Talk about the truth in advertising. (As a photographer, I'm always on the lookout for amusing, strange or weird signs).Shop therapy...You m Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:16:58 -0800 /blog/139/post_97506.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97501.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](A famous bridge in San Francisco, on a rare fog-free day.)Funny, how during my caregiving years, I traveled so much.Not necessarily by far, but I traveled often.Though to get started... and th Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:59:22 -0800 /blog/139/post_97501.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97468.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= There's aA major winter storm hitting the northeast, and this time, we're in.It started as snow, then a mix of snow and ice pellets in the afternoon, some freezing rain, and now it's back to ice pelle Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:22:31 -0800 /blog/139/post_97468.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97364.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](English Bay Beach under the snow, Vancouver British-Columbia, 2006))I walked bare feet in the snow all the way to the water, for my ritual dip in the water (as documented here: Sunset at Engli Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:49:28 -0800 /blog/139/post_97364.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97293.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](Photo taken from my patio earlier this morning, under light snow) From this wintry paradise, I'm wishing to all my blogfriends, happiness, health, and all the unmentionable good things in life Sun, 26 Dec 2010 16:52:28 -0800 /blog/139/post_97293.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97232.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](On the way to an enchanted island. Coastal British-Columbia, June 2007. I miss dearly the ferry...)I blog, because I can post pictures. Heh. In discussing with one of my sisters, -who is not a Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:59:54 -0800 /blog/139/post_97232.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97185.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= The local paper this weekend had an article about adults who write to... Santa Claus. You can bet that it isn't about getting toys, and it is a very touching story.Also yesterday, an employee at the Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:48:41 -0800 /blog/139/post_97185.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97131.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= It's _that_ time of the year...Where my handle *really* means something!Every year, I wonder what the [ bleep! ] I'm doing here in this frozen land.Also I wonder how I did it last year. And Sat, 04 Dec 2010 18:32:34 -0800 /blog/139/post_97131.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97099.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](A sail to the seemingly unknown. Leaving Horseshoe Bay, British-Columbia, Summer 2006)Have you noticed that there are phrases that have become... verboten? Things you no longer hear from oth Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:45:47 -0800 /blog/139/post_97099.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97077.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](A walk in Provincetown's East End. Summer 2000. The year is important.)The thing about discovering a branch of your family, is that we're catching up on each others, for all these years that Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:12:49 -0800 /blog/139/post_97077.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_97043.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](Photo taken at Hanlan's Beach, Toronto Island, summer 2010)Well, according to the sign above.... which may seem strange at first glance. I'm obviously standing outside. One can do what he wan Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:36:30 -0800 /blog/139/post_97043.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= /blog/139/post_96993.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m= [image](Hanlan's Point, Toronto Islands, October 2010)On my last trip to Toronto Islands a few weeks ago, I went to the beaches, for THE one last time for this year.There's something inherently sad. Sun, 21 Nov 2010 04:15:51 -0800 /blog/139/post_96993.html?dcb=www.datingfaces.com&pid=p2198&m=