autumn window prepared for winter

Yesterday, from our breakfast table window, Fredericton

red kanji vine

A red vine on our street ... one of my "kanji" photos (taken this morning in a gusting wind.)

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つるくさ

Camera Obscura and "Back to DSL"

With our re-location we are back to DSL as we are just past the area with Op Fiber to-the-door (this must be one of the few cities with free public wi-fi downtown and to cross the five feet with fiber.

Unlike the typical American publiv library in a small city, the public library here has a shelf of philosophy books both in Dewey 100+ and 180+ including one volume that was a very pleasant surprise.

The biggest treat: a hand controlled "camera obscura" in a dome by the river.  This is not augmented vision with adjusted focus as in a magnifiying glass, a spyglass, a telescope, a film camera or a video camera: this unique manner viewing a display ( I do not say "image") of reflections of the trees on the surface of a flowing river, passing gulls or tourists on the bridge - an artist's permanent installation - alone would be worth the journey.