Geoff Budden

A lovely little resting place just off the Virginia River pedestrian trail. Taken today at about 9 AM

Split Grilse
Mary Pratt
1979

The newly-laid asphalt on the Tupper/Laurier Park multi-use path, today at dawn (7:22 AM)

The Rennie’s River pedestrian trail on this mauzy, perfect autumn morning:

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Newfoundland & Labrador Provincial Polling:

LIB: 52% (+4)
PC: 32% (-7)
NDP: 13% (+5)
Others: 3%

Mainstreet / Oct 10, 2025 / n=987 / MOE 3% / IVR

(% Change with 2021 Election)

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The Kent’s Pond Trail about 7:15 this morning. The colours of autumn, but more than a hint on summer still in the air :

A perfect day for a run on the beautiful urban trails of St John’s:

Today’s Canadian painting is “Thunderhead” painted by Tom Thomson in 1913.

The Virginia River Pedestrian trail, tonight at 8 PM

Kent’s Pond, this morning at 7:35

The Long Pond trail this evening: a moment of calm in a tormenting world

Apply before the deadline for this worthwhile scholarship #IndigenousLawStudent ✨🎓

Agucadoura, Portugal, this evening at 9 o’clock

You gotta admit though, huge if true.

Porto: today at 2:20 PM

The Kent’s Pond Trail, this misty morning at about 6:50

I just voted, half a kilometre from my house, 9 AM on voting day and the entire process took 8 minutes. This has been typical of my voting experiences over the last 40 years. Whatever the failures of our political processes, a lot of positives there as well.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

As earworms go, I could be doing a lot worse than “Here, There and Everywhere”

“You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass”

- Seamus Heaney, born on this day in 1939

Hamas Launches Unprecedented Legal Case in Britain, Demanding the Government Remove its Terror Designation In a legal filing, a Hamas founder argues that the group has the right to use armed resistance to achieve Palestinian liberation—and that Britain is crushing honest debate about its aims.

Hamas launches legal battle in UK, demanding to be removed from terror listing

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The Virginia River pedestrian trail, this morning at 6:20 :

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

I took this pic 15 years ago, in QV Lake near the mouth of Virginia River. Perhaps an ancestor of the ones you saw

Wow! I’ve seen otters in QV Lake but assumed that they were sea otters (there is a difference, right?). The Virginia River apparently has a large trout population, which perhaps attracts otters

Exactly! In its own way, a perfect day

This morning’s run down the Virginia River pedestrian trail and around Quidi Vidi Lake

9% of Americans have a “very or somewhat” favourable view of the Black Death??!

And Bluesky will grow. The appetite for engagement is still there and Twitter isn’t a satisfying experience for most normal people.