Pictures from Scofo

Thought I would post some pictures..

Yes I am a nerdlinger. Check out my dual monitor setup for flight simulator. Great for practicing IFR. Hope to start flying a Cessna 150 out of Stratford soon.

We recently saw a bird in our back/side yard which we had not seen before. With a little reasearch on the web we found out it was a Northern Flicker. (Got this closeup shot by using the binoculars as a lens for the digital camera, very McGyver.)

Here we are at the butterfly conservatory in Kitchener.

A swan nest by the river in Stratford.

We got a chuckle out of this machine in Mount Forest which Sara thought for a second had a picture of poo with a top hat on it.

Sara in the water at Seth's cottage, always happy to be swimming.

Blowing bubbles at the beach.

Thinking Green

I went to the Canadian Tire website today and found they have a new natural power site.

www.canadiantirepower.ca

Hat's off to Canadian Tire, things like wind generators and solar panels are still expensive and may take little while to pay for themselves but this is the kind of initiative that gets people to start buying them, which increases the demand, which gets the ball rolling on lowering manufacturing prices and increasing efficiencies. Hopefully in 5 to 10 years cheap natural energy will be available for everyone, globally. Canadian tire obviously had the foresight to see this.
Also don't forget what things such as natural power could do for the world. Clean water generation, less dependency on nuclear and coal, less pollution, and god forbid with high enough efficiencies electric cars. Not to mention that the existing grid could be used to take any extra power generated and feed it to others. If it's not windy or sunny here the wind and sun miles away could help out. Sweet.