Learning to blog with photos...

And a couple more photos that I couldn't manage to post in my first blog
(I think the scales are pretty similar between the two photos):

My old street in Toronto

My new street in Nova Scotia

(ok, so it's really the driveway...)

Why Urban to Burban?

Why the blog? Because my friends are scattered around the world, I'm getting even worse at maintaining e-mail contact and a lot of you dislike group e-mails. With the blog, you chose when and if you want to be updated on my life.

Why the name? Well, here's the update: I've just moved from downtown Toronto to the old family homestead in rural Nova Scotia (the burban bit...I figured the urban bit was self-evident). It's been a bit of a change. Here are some pix, so I don't have to write a few thousand words:





Backyard view from my little bachelor near Bathurst & Bloor













The current backyard (well, most of it, and in different seasons, but you get the idea...especially if you imagine the 2 photos below lined up...which I can't seem to make them do here):
























I'll be finishing my thesis from the comforts of my parents' basement while looking out at the scenes above. It has a much nicer feel than the old (windowless) concrete closet that was my office in Toronto, though I can't imagine why.