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Thornbury Chili Cookoff




Thornbury Chili Cookoff

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel

On Saturday July 7, 2007, Blue Mountain Village ski resort played host to the Thornbury-Clarksburg Rotary Club’s 23rd Annual Blue Mountains Chili Cookoff. The ski resort doesn’t sit idle in the summer, apparently, as the place was packed. Tasters wandered around with their spoons and tried samples from the twenty or so contestants, with names like "Harry Fartter" and "Hell’s Kitchen". My vote went to the organic buffalo chili in booth number 1.(Buffalo, or bison, is raised locally.)

In the background, the ski lift was doing a brisk business taking bikers and their rented mountain bikes to the top of Blue Mountain, where it’s all downhill from there.

“Package” (Is That It?)




"Package" (Is That It?)

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel

After nearly 30 years of faithful service to a major financial institution, today I received my severence “package”. While fairly reasonable, financially, I found myself thinking that in the literal sense, it looked rather thin… When I had “the meeting” today, I looked at it sitting there on the desk in front of me, and before I even read it, my first thought was: is that it?

iRise pen swag

Lynda scored this cool pen at a Usability conference in Austin, and I acted like such a child about how cool it was that she gave it to me. No audio apart from an audible click when I smack the lens with it.

The Corran




The Corran

Originally uploaded by rgdaniel

The Corran (Gaelic for "point of land running into the sea") was the homestead of Alexander McNeil (1882-1932). It was a magnificent 17-room mansion built from stone mined on the 121-hectare site. The style of the home, and its position on the Niagara Escarpment high above Colpoy’s Bay were reminiscent of Alexander’s family’s estate in Northern Ireland.

Today the site, north of Wiarton, Ontario, is known as Spirit Rock Conservation Area, part of the Grey Sauble Conservation Authority and the Niagara Escarpment Program.