At the airport |
Lost luggage, - so Deb goes shopping at West Ed mall (no relation to Imelda Marcos) |
Deb shoe shopping at West Ed mall |
Watching the ice hockey in West Ed mall, while Deb's still shopping |
On the way to the mall. Yep, I'm better *behind* the camera, not in front of it. |
Scary stuff in the mall |
That dragon's a bit *too* scary |
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The last of the Birthday Cake |
At the 'beach', Edmonton style 1 |
At the 'beach', Edmonton style 3 |
At the beach, close up |
At the playground 1 |
At the playground 2 |
At the playground 3 |
At the playground 4 |
At the playground 5 |
At the playground 6 |
At the playground 7 |
At the playground 8. Last photo in Alberta before flying to Toronto |
The cottage on Lake Kasshabog 1 |
The cottage on Lake Kasshabog 2 |
Fishing at the cottage |
Kayaking on the lake |
Relaxing at the cottage,1 |
Relaxing at the cottage,2 |
Relaxing at the cottage,3 |
A curious chipmunk at the lakeside cottage |
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C,251 A photo showing some of the granite slabs on the lakeside |
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swim A, 1300m - no photos |
swim B, 3500m |
swim C, 2800m |
swim D, 1500m |
D,344 We both kayaked out to the island and then Deb swam home while I towed her kayak |
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A frog's eye view of the lily pad pool |
C,291 Ashot showing some of the beautiful scenery and cottages on the lakeside. Lots of cedars, fir and birch. |
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Swimming at the lake |
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C,325, with rolling thunder, and lightning in the distance it was time for a safer trip back by squeezing into the kayak |
Owen Sound Harbour, ON., 1 |
Owen Sound Harbour,ON., 2 |
Butterfly on Manitolin Is |
Corona Borealis and sats |
Pleiades rising with Mars (UR) & Aldebaran (BC) |
York Uni, Toronto, 'Public night' with the Meade 16 inch |
David Dunlap Observatory, Toronto 1. The DDO is the largest optical telescope in Canada. It houses a 1.88m (74") cassegrain. |
David Dunlap Observatory, Toronto 2. When the telescope was built it was the second largest telescope in the world. |
David Dunlap Observatory, Toronto 3. See http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/DDO/ for more details. |
David Dunlap Observatory, Toronto 4, with Archie |
David Dunlap Observatory, Toronto 5. The observatory is at Richmond Hill |
David Dunlap Observatory, Toronto 6. The scope was made by Grubb Parsons & Co of England. |
David Dunlap Observatory, Toronto 7. The mounting and 80 ton, 61 foot diameter copper dome also came from England. |
David Dunlap Observatory, Toronto 8. The 23 ton telescope (without mirror) arrived in 1933 and was lowered through the 15' slot. |
Casa Loma. See http://www.casaloma.org/ for details of the building. |
'Rapunzel' lets down her hair at Casa Loma, Toronto |
Casa Loma, the gardens 1. |
Casa Loma, the gardens 2 |
Deb & her mother Marlen in Toronto |
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Deb & parents, Marlene, Gordon at Casa Loma gardens, IMG_0552 |
Deb, parents & grandmother and Fraser and Hope, IMG_0653 |