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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 34m

I took a screenshot of it. CNN boldly predicted that the New York Yankees would take the American League Division Series in 4 games over the Toronto Blue Jays. The Blue Jays have in fact just eliminated the New York Yankees in 4 games. Jays were a force to be reckoned with in spite of the naysayers.

Screenshot of CNN predicting that the Yankees would defeat the Blue Jays.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 4h

It rained all day yesterday, heavily, and today everything is still wet, but colourful in the bushes in the ravine. It is totally dark now at 7:15 PM.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 14h

An expert on Canadian mammals says the beaver has leucism — a genetic condition that causes a loss of pigmentation. Leucistic beavers are so rare the Canadian Museum of Nature has a pelt in its collection that's more than a century old.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 14h

You have seen me post about Perth, Ontario --the funky, deeply historic town known for the last fatal duel in Canada and the mammoth, world's largest cheese, a 22,000 pound cheese made in 1893 for Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition. Well Perth is now famous for its white beaver -a leucistic one.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 15h

Nike stopped making golf balls all together. It's a shame. It was the preferred brand of Tiger Woods. I liked them a lot, but Callaway fits my swing better. I get better scores with Callaway, until MOJO showed up. I will be sad when the last one is lost.

Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 15h

Once again, I am a spelling idiot. What the correction should say is *** what you can't see, IS the creek ***

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 15h

** sigh *** once again correction *it says* not it say. Wish I could edit, or spell more accurately.

Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 15h

I think so!

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 15h

Photographs of a simple drive to the grocery store from our house. Soon these autumn colours will be gone. And then, the iceman cometh!

Red sumac leaves against a rock cut with colourful maple trees atop the rockface.

Through the red maple leaves, the road cuts a swath of asphalt.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 15h

Are they tougher? Wifey suggests that they would be. I actually like a gamey taste.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 15h

The morning sun outside the living room window. At the right angle, you can see across our ravine to the river below. Wifey idly suggested to me to chop down a lot of trees to improve the view. Nope! I don't like killing trees for no reason, other than improving the view.

The view of colourful maple leaves and the ravine out the living room window.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 15h

I not only eat the artisanal Québec cheeses, some made in the last monastery making cheese in Québec (at the Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-du-Lac), but I eat a lot of commodity cheese, especially when it goes on sale. Such a deal! Nearly a pound of cheese for $3.99. (pound is 454 grams, this is 400 grams).

Mozarella, Monterey Jack and Extra Old cheddar. Five packages of cheese.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 15h

This is an abomination! It's not Thanksgiving yet. It's not Halloween for another month and a half. Christmas is over 2 months away and the local emporium is selling cheap Christmas crap! Who buys this tawdry crud at this time of year? Yet, if it didn't sell, they wouldn't put it out so early. Sigh!

Pillows with Santa, puppies, Red Cardinal snow scenes and skiers.

Metallic Christmas trees and milk bottles

A stupid Christmas dog with changeable bones on it with numbers on how many days until Christmas.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 15h

The colour of the autumn leaves in the hills is more muted when they're in the shadows. The last three photographs are taken on my late afternoon daily walks with wifey. What you can't see, it the creek in the valley against the hills. The first photograph is the river down the hill below our house.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 15h

That too!! Except that instead of cooking the wild turkey, it cooks you.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 16h

I photographed my golf ball on my best drive of the day at Greensmere. I once was at a charity rummage sale & a woman was selling golf balls. I thought that they were marked "UPOW". Turn it over & it say "MOJO" in a curlicue script. Made by Nike. I love the performance of these discontinued balls.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 16h

With the cost of a round of golf over $100, wifey & I try to get the cheaper rates after 3:00 PM. The course is less crowded but up north in Canada, at this time of year, the sun is lower in the sky, it gets darker earlier and the shadows are long. When facing west, the sun is directly in your eyes.

Wifey lines up her shot while I take this photograph from the seat in the golf cart.

Even with the long shadows, the course is gorgeous.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 16h

She said impatiently, "Ken, quit harassing the wild turkeys!" We came to the tee box around the bend at Greensmere golf course & there was a flock. I wanted to photograph them. She wanted to tee off. She was beating me at strokes. I'm dying to taste a wild turkey like the Pilgrims. Anyone tried it?

This is three, of the turkeys. There was about seven or eight.

I wanted to get close but wifey was impatient.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 16h

Last Sunday, wifey & I drove to Ontario to play the Premiere Course at Greensmere Golf & Country Club. It is a links style course that is wide open, unlike the golf courses that we play in the alpine boreal forests of Québec. However, if you leave the fairway, there are undulations with no flat lie.

The tee box marker. I played the white tees. The blue cup thing is to hold broken tees so the lawnmower doesn't run over them.

The links style is sparse and lovely to play.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 1d

More fall food as decor. But, I like it. It adds a seasonal touch. On Monday is Canadian Thanksgiving day. The first Canadian Thanksgiving was Frobisher's in 1578. Champlain had a feast in 1606. In America, Alexander Young, was the first person to describe the 1621 feast as the "first Thanksgiving".

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate the flowers too. Nice touch and happy-making when you come across them at close quarters.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody planted this flower, except Mother Nature. This is a beautiful wild aster that I found on my walk along a country lane. The ditches are filled with the wonders of the wild world if you just stop and look.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 1d

This bicycle planter was in the same garden by the road where I pilfered four cherry tomatoes and where the roses and dahlias were growing right at the road's edge. Actually it was more of a lane than a road. If it wasn't raining & the lighting was better, this would have made a great calendar shot.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 1d

Wifey came running in from house balcony overlooking the yard and said she was chased by a Murder Hornet -one of those big Asian, invasive species hornet. I went out and gave it a swat. It was fairly large, just a bit over an inch, but it wasn't a Murder Hornet. They have orange faces & are bigger.

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Ken B @kenby.bsky.social · 1d

I just noticed that I misspelled actually. Damn! I wish that you could edit posts!

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