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Welcome to  30 Days of Photos , where 18 bloggers are participating in posting a photo a day for 30 days. Here are the other 17 you can visit after you've been here: Ziva ,  Mike ,  Nicky & Mike ,  Mo ,  Meleah ,  Bryan ,  Mariann ,  Malissa ,  Nora ,  Laughing Mom ,  Tanya ,  Elizabeth ,  00dozo ,  Cheryl ,  Kristen  and  Katherine Where I live there are lots of golf courses. And this time of year I'm dying to get out on them. I only started golfing a year ago but I love it. There are almost as many marinas in the area. This one's across the river in Ottawa, Ontario. The other side of the river is Aylmer, Quebec where I live. I'm no sailor but I can identify with this guy. His is the only boat out in the slips of the marina. The rest of the sailboats are still all in storage wrapped in protective industrial strength white plastic...waiting.

Welcome to  30 Days of Photos , where 18 bloggers are participating in posting a photo a day for 30 days. Here are the other 17 you can visit after you've been here: Ziva ,  Mike ,  Nicky & Mike ,  Mo ,  Meleah ,  Bryan ,  Mariann ,  Malissa ,  Nora ,  Laughing Mom ,  Tanya ,  Elizabeth ,  00dozo ,  Cheryl ,  Kristen  and  Katherine   I took this pic in a grocery store in Panama last week. I didn't purchase the peas. I'd never purchase peas. I hate peas. Absolutely can't stand them. It stems from an incident in my childhood. When I was a kid and the pre-teen son of parents who were practising Catholics, we didn't eat meat on Fridays. So Fridays, without fail, were Tuna Casserole Night. Yep, Kraft Dinner - or as you Americans so elegantly refer to it:  Mac and Cheese - and tuna.  But my mother took a bit of a twist on the dish to dress it up a bit. You know, to ...

Hey, don't forget to visit dufus daze for this week's collection of  the best in the week's editorial cartoons - something we call Sunday Funnies . We now return you to our regularly scheduled program. **** Welcome to  30 Days of Photos , where 18 bloggers are participating in posting a photo a day for 30 days. Here are the other 17 you can visit after you've been here: Ziva ,  Mike ,  Nicky & Mike ,  Mo ,  Meleah ,  Bryan ,  Mariann ,  Malissa ,  Nora ,  Laughing Mom ,  Tanya ,  Elizabeth ,  00dozo ,  Cheryl ,  Kristen  and  Katherine At the foot of Ottawa's National War Memorial which I spoke of on Day 6 is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A 12 by 8 foot granite sarcophagus encloses a coffin which contains his remains. The unidentified soldier was retrieved from a cemetery near Vimy Ridge, the site of a famous Canadian battle of World War I.  While Canadian t...

Well, hell, we made it to Day #7 in this photo a day for 30 days thingy. The first week has come to a close. Only 23 more friggin' days to go. I have to say, though, while it's been tough coming up with photos to match every day's theme, it's been a ton of fun to visit my colleagues' blogs every day and see what they've come up with. And another thing, my comment and page view count is through the roof. You'd think I actually had friends. Wow. So, here we go again... Welcome to  30 Days of Photos , where 18 bloggers are participating in posting a photo a day for 30 days. Here are the other 17 you can visit after you've been here: Ziva ,  Mike ,  Nicky & Mike ,  Mo ,  Meleah ,  Bryan ,  Mariann ,  Malissa ,  Nora ,  Laughing Mom ,  Tanya ,  Elizabeth ,  00dozo ,  Cheryl ,  Kristen  and  Katherine I almost want to subtitle this "When you see it you will..." And I'm not really a M...

Welcome to  30 Days of Photos , where 18 bloggers are participating in posting a photo a day for 30 days. Here are the other 17 you can visit after you've been here: Ziva ,  Mike ,  Nicky & Mike ,  Mo ,  Meleah ,  Bryan ,  Mariann ,  Malissa ,  Nora ,  Laughing Mom ,  Tanya ,  Elizabeth ,  00dozo ,  Cheryl ,  Kristen   Pam  and  Katherine When I think of tragedy my mind often wanders to the ravages of war. I mean the number of soldiers who have fallen in wars around the world is astronomical and, to me at least, tragic. In downtown Ottawa we have the National War Memorial, a constant reminder to the lives lost through war. The memorial features 23 bronze figures, representing people who fought in the First World War, emerging from a memorial arch, moving from war into peace.  If only.  Completed in 1938, it was rededicated in 1982 to include th...

Welcome to  30 Days of Photos , where 18 bloggers are participating in posting a photo a day for 30 days. Here are the other 17 you can visit after you've been here: Ziva ,  Mike ,  Nicky & Mike ,  Mo ,  Meleah ,  Bryan ,  Mariann ,  Malissa ,  Nora ,  Laughing Mom ,  Tanya ,  Elizabeth ,  00dozo ,  Cheryl ,  Kristen   Pam  and  Katherine In Ottawa, the nation's capital, when you speak of power this is what comes to mind. This is the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. It's where Member's of Parliament, elected from across the country, sit in the House of Commons (the left side of the picture) and where Senators, appointed by the Prime Minister, sit in the Red Chamber or Senate (the right side of the picture).  The parliament buildings were originally constructed beginning in 1859 but were destroyed by a fire in 1916. However, the Centre Block has looked like this pictu...

If you expected to find Pause Ponder and Pun here don't worry. You can still leave a caption on this week's pic over at dufus daze while we run 30 Days of Photos on my main blog... **** Welcome to  30 Days of Photos , where 18 bloggers are participating in posting a photo a day for 30 days. Here are the other 17 you can visit after you've been here: Ziva ,  Mike ,  Nicky & Mike ,  Mo ,  Meleah ,  Bryan ,  Mariann ,  Malissa ,  Nora ,  Laughing Mom ,  Tanya ,  Elizabeth ,  00dozo ,  Cheryl ,  Kristen   Pam and Katherine Here's something unusual for an urban centre. In the heart of Canada's capital is a huge block of open land (400 hectares) called The Central Experimental Farm. It was established in 1886 (thats a long time for an "experiment") as the central research station for the federal Department of Agriculture. When I first entered the public service in the mid 80s (that...

Welcome to  30 Days of Photos , where 16 bloggers are participating in posting a photo a day for 30 days. Here are the other 15 you can visit after you've been here: Ziva ,  Mike ,  Nicky & Mike ,  Mo ,  Meleah ,  Bryan ,  Mariann ,  Malissa ,  Nora ,  Laughing Mom ,  Tanya ,  Elizabeth ,  00dozo ,  Cheryl  and Kristen And just when you thought it was safe to got out among our meme (French for "the same") participants Mike and Diva have decided to spread the pain and have added Pam and Katherine to our little band of idiots. Gosh they better stop soon. I'm running out of digits to keep track of all of them. If you were an ant on my backyard patio, this may well be the last thing you'd ever see. It's an ant trap. Kind of like a Hymenoptera mausoleum if you will. Did you know there are ants on every continent except Antarctica? Ants and their larvae are actually eaten by humans in ...

Welcome to  30 Days of Photos , where 16 bloggers are participating in posting a photo a day for 30 days. Here are the other 15 you can visit after you've been here: Ziva , Mike , Nicky & Mike , Mo , Meleah , Bryan , Mariann , Malissa , Nora , Laughing Mom , Tanya , Elizabeth ,  00dozo ,  Cheryl  and Kristen This edifice was constructed in 1890 on Ottawa's Elgin Street, within walking distance of Parliament Hill. It's called the Central Chambers Building and is a Canadian national historic site because it's an  example of the Queen Anne Revival Style of architecture. It was the first Ottawa building with an electrical elevator. The building originally housed the offices of the Canadian Atlantic Railway and the Ottawa and Gatineau Valley Railway. Now it is home to the National Capital Commission.

If you're looking for our weekly Sunday Funnies feature it's over here for the month of April.  Welcome to 30 Days of Photos , where 15 bloggers are participating in posting a photo a day for 30 days. Here are the other 14 you can visit after you've been here: Ziva ,  Mike ,  Nicky & Mike ,  Mo ,  Meleah ,  Bryan ,  Mariann ,  Malissa ,  Nora ,  Laughing Mom ,  Tanya ,  Elizabeth ,  00dozo  and Cheryl Do you see it? This is the playlist of the Collected Works of Simon and Garfunkel from the music app on my iPad. It's number 6, there. The Sound of Silence. Yep, that's my photo of "silence". The song was first released in 1964 on the album Wednesday Morning 3 A.M. I was 12 years old back then. The song was remixed and "electrified" and re-released as a single a year later. This was the beginnings of the so-called folk-rock movement when acoustic folk music became electrified. The song i...

I really don't know how this woman maintains her balance. Can you imagine the backache she has to put up with. She's defying gravity. We had a "big" response this week. A lot of great captions. I guess pictures of big boobs just seems to bring the "breast" out in people. I think our first runner-up had his eyes somewhere else. But he was very observant... Nice spice rack. Mike Our next commenter went the practical route... Octomom's wet nurse. 00dozo I really liked the next caption... "...and that's how nonamedufus became my favourite blog ever." moooooog But after all was said and done I just couldn't stop laughing at our winning caption... Candy started drinking heavily after she lost a part on Seinfeld to Terry Hatcher. Seems nobody believed her reading of the line "They're real and they're SPECTACULAR". Nicky  Way to go Nicky. You really know how to keep abreast of situati...

Are you ready for this? I'm not. Sure I like to take pictures. But I'm not a photographer. I'm not a master of light, focus, composition or zoom control. I point and shoot. And my camera of choice is my iPhone. I was out yesterday taking pictures in preparation for next week's topics. Not easy. But challenging. And it should be fun. And to me, that's what this is all about. Fun. At least that'll be my take. Because, dammit Jim,  I'm not a photographer. We kick off Sunday, April 1 - me and a handful of other bloggers. I'm not sure who all is involved in this little exercise. When I do find out I'll post them here so you can visit them all. I do know Mike from Too Many Mornings and Ziva at Ziva's Inferno are involved. This is their brainchild, after all. And they're both very accomplished photographers. I hate them both. And Bryan from Unfinished , 00dozo from When I Reach  and Nicky and Mike from We Work For Chee...

Okay you guys. Here's an uplifting pic for you this week. You can show me your support by leaving a caption or two. Bust a move guys and we'll see you Saturday.

A recent study in Britain, a country known for it's probing, cutting edge and highly useful surveys, has found that two-thirds of men there rely on their wives or partners to tell them how to dress. Also, the survey found, half of men were physically dressed by their wives. You know, doing up their tie, fastening their cufflinks or inserting their collar stiffeners (not a euphemism). Kinda brings new meaning to the phrase getting up in the morning. The majority of these men said they let their significant others dress them because they themselves lacked a sense of style. Oh, c'mon. I'm sure the same doesn't hold true for North American men. Me? I pride myself on my sense of style. In fact my wife has commented on the stylishness of some of my purchases. Sure it's thing's like, "Hell, that thing looks like it's outta the 70s." But, hey, at least I can shop for myself. I can buy t-shirts and tube socks with the best of them. Get down tonig...

This was a terrific week for captions. You guys were flinging them left and right with abandon. It was quite a challenge to pick a winner. Indeed, it was a real toss-up. Let's see what we've got... At the rooftop square dance, Jim takes "swing your partner" a bit too literally moooooog I said "Pull my finger! Pull my fingerrrrr!" Shawn And here we see the first tribute being tossed into the arena to officially start The Hunger Games. 00dozo All good ones guys. And look at 00dozo's return to our little arena of puns with a caption true to form. Have you guys seen the movie yet? But our winner this week has long been the bridesmaid but never the bride in our little contest. Well that all changes now. My cherie ami from Mesa, Arizona is responsible for leaving a comment that has become a wicked ear-worm whirling around in my brain since Wednesday... You spin me right round, baby, right round, like a sho...

So what do you think of my new masthead? Clever, huh? A horse with no name and a horse with noname? Get it? Yeah, okay. I really used to like that song. Moving on. So I'm back from my vacation in Panama. The trip back was a tad better than the trip down. No tearing through airports like O.J. Simpson (I know. I'm dating myself.) only to discover I'd missed my connection. And bonus: I had a very lovely lady pat me down as I boarded my flight from Panama to Orlando. It was the best action I'd had in two weeks. So I thought I'd let you know about an interruption to our scheduled program. Beginning April 1, I'll be suspending regular blogging activity to participate in something called 30 Days of Photographs II . "What the hell?" you say. Well it could be hell. Posting a photo every day for 30 days and writing a little about it? And there are rules. And there are directions. What the hell did I get myself into? You might remember last year at abou...

This could be a picture of the Flying Wallendas before they got their act together. I'm not sure. How about you? Leave a caption in the comments. Then fly back here Saturday to see who said what. 

Sure, wait until the end of my holiday before bringing out the big guns. There I was Sunday, minding my own business, sitting on the balcony of my brother-in-law's Panama condo looking out over the infinity pools and ocean ruminating about what I enjoyed best about my two week trip to Panama. Was it the 100+ degree temperatures? Not exactly. Was it the great meals we had on our trips out to various restaurants? Not exactly. Was it the ability to play golf every day? Not exactly. Was it the gorgeous beach? Not exactly. Was it the fantastic sunrises? Not exactly. Was it the zoo in the fertile - and cooler - volcanic valley of El Valle ? Uh-uh. Well what was it then? Well, over beside the pool - and at the risk of appearing to be an old lecherous coot, which I may well be  - it was the discovery of young women in thongs. That's right, thongs. I'd seen pictures before but I've never seen them in their natural habitat. He...