I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
And this is why I take long walks
May 21, 2007
I needed to clear my head, so I grabbed the camera and headed out for a ravine near my place; it’s a deep, steep-walled valley that snakes eastward and south from the Stadium LRT Station and ultimately spills out into the North Saskatchewan River. It’s a little slice of heaven, really — near the LRT terminal, there’s a bit of trash and stuff that’s been thrown down there, but a few minutes later and a mile or so further, it’s almost like walking into some place in…well, anywhere but a city. Lush, heavy forest and a little creek.
Or…not so little at one point.
The stream had been thin along all of the run of it that I’d followed, but while I was traversing some ground along an “official” path a little further up the hill, I noticed that the thin stream had widened a fair bit, almost seeming to look like a pond through the trees.
Imagine my surprise when I saw the beaver swimming in the water!
I had intended to spend the evening photographing the Edmonton skyline with the sunset in the background, but I didn’t wind up getting around to it; I fired off fifty or sixty pictures just in and near the beaver pond — photographing their lodge on the bank of the pond, the small dam they’d build themselves, and the two beavers I could see in the water.
Actually, it was a wonderfully tranquil thing. The dam was so small compared to some that I’ve seen, barely six feet wide, and yet the pond it made was…huge. A testament, I suppose, to how little things can have large impacts.
At any rate, I have a bunch of pictures for the gallery, folks, and I suppose I should get to editing them. Expect a new gallery section soon.
