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Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival
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An old, old relic of the internet, updated daily: Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival
Consider it an artifact from when the internet was still an interesting place. I'd forgotten all about it...
A roadside Art Exhibit in Victoria
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We have probably no less than a million of these in Calgary, but they're all unaccredited...
The boy didn't believe me, no one ever does, it gets annoying after awhile, so I made him read the artist's statement:
You can imagine the artist knocking on the door of the residence, asking permission to exhibit her artwork on their lawn, and it all goes from there...
Cathedral Grove
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Slightly before Port Alberni, coming from Victoria.
Trees.
Big Tree. Lots of big trees here.
Yep, the trees here sure are big...
And a curious roadside shrine, just a hundred yards from the turnoff to Cathedral Grove.
Long Beach
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Tiny blobs of protoplasm, jellyfish, washed up on the beach...
A decaying (and stinky!) harbour seal. Which recalls a few days earlier, walking along the breakwater in Victoria I overheard a little girl asking about a baby seal "sleeping" in the water, bobbing up and down. And the mother's explaining that, yes, it's gone to it's "forever sleep", which was kinda both touching and cheesy at the same time. My kids, I'd a told 'em "There's a baby seal that didn't listen to it's parents...".
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