We were out beside the bay for a summer solstice celebration. The ice is finally coming out of the bay after unseasonably warm temperatures this week — 16°C (61°F). The first icebreaker of the year is due this week!

A few small HBC houses with red & white roofs are situated on a sandy shore overlooking a mostly ice-covered body of water under a bright, partially cloudy sky.

The first sign of spring is the return of the snow buntings. That was a few weeks ago, and this week the spring flowers are starting to pop up in numbers. ✓

Pink flowers with green leaves and some dried twigs are growing close to a lichen-covered rock.

Our solar panels have done surprisingly well with almost no significant degradation over 16 years. (We got the first few panels on in 2009, and then added panels each of the next two years until we reached our full complement.)

Yesterday’s weather, mid-January, was some kind of weird here. The historical average temperature range is -22.4 to -30.6 (-8.3°F to -23.1°F). Yesterday it was +3.3 to -2.3 (37.9°F to 27.9°F)!

Oh, and it rained making roads & paths dangerously slippery as the rain turned the accumulated snow to ice. (My legs were aching before my daily walk to check the mail was half over and I was soaked!)

Drivers whose tires were less than perfect found it impossible to get up the big hills. The police ended up blocking off one of the major access roads until they could clear off the accumulation of inadequately outfitted vehicles.

The slippery road up to the Plateau ended up blocked by skidding cars, vans, and trucks.

Humourous circle: when Apple ships Vision Pro, it will close the product name circle with VisiOn.

VisiOn, published by VisiCorp. (marketers of VisiCalc) was one of, if not the first GUI environments on the PC.

I hope Vision Pro is more successful!

Screenshot of the VisiOn desktop, courtesy of Wikipedia.

Walking home by the airport early this evening. Snowy, but also windy & relatively warm but you can’t tell that from the picture. As W.O. Mitchell said, “Who has seen the wind?”

Snow in the airport flood lights at night.

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PetaPixel: The Personal Photo Curator: A New Profession is Born

The average family may shoot four thousand photos in a year. If you have been taking pictures since the iPhone 3G came out in 2008, it means that now, after 14 years of a trigger-happy existence, you are inundated with over 50,000 photos. And you probably cannot find a perfect shot from a vacation you took just three years ago.

Enter personal photo curator Isabelle Dervaux, who can make sense of your photo mess and get your collection organized and, more importantly, functional.