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Photo of the Day: The Bear
From my new photo series, “Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House.” The bottom of this handsome bear says “Hand Carved by Kadian Crafts, Canada.” More photos here.
Photo of the Day: Boo!
Just under the Hallowe’en wire, here’s “Scary Sam,” our jack-o-lantern. More photos here.
Photo of the (Yester)Day: Mountain Morning
A final photo from Banff (well, this trip to Banff). After the snowfall on Sunday, Monday dawned bright and beautiful. More photos here. (Fresh ones soon!)
Photo of the Day: Black-and-White Banff*
More photos here. *Actually, this is a colour photo. But you’d be hard-pressed to tell it at first glance.
Photo of the (Wednes)Day: City Sunset
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Photo of the Day: The Elephant
The first in an occasional series I’m calling “Things I Found in My Mother-in-Law’s House.” This is the head of a brass elephant, obviously. It’s one of two, on marble stands, obviously intended as book ends. The question is, why is there a matching candlestick holder? Would you put it in the middle of a …
Photo of the Day: The Saucer
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The Palm and World Islands
A while ago I wrote a column called “Extraordinary Engineering.” Among the mega-engineering projects I mentioned were the Palm and World Islands, off the coast of Dubai. As I wrote: The Palm Islands are two artificial islands, 4.8 kilometres offshore, being built in the shape of giant palm trees, with “trunks” eight kilometers long and …