After two solid weeks of making an effort to get out and document my subtle experiences with nature I've concluded two things:

1. I thoroughly enjoy regularly getting out into nature. I should and will do it as often as possible.
2. I don't enjoy always taking a camera and the pressure of doing it in a regular pattern and having to tell all of you about it.

For this reason I am ending my 30 Day Nature Challenge here. It was a horrible failure and a raging success all rolled into one.

The last two days have had me doing a fair bit of walking. It's just about a 2km journey from my house to the office. I forgot to bring along my camera yesterday so a picture from this morning will have to do for both days.

The clouds this morning were fantastic. Light and fluffy with sunlight and blue sky behind them.

Islander Day - The second Monday in February.
Family Day, President's Day, Every other holiday in the world Day - The third Monday in February.

Stupid.

Sometimes you have the best of intentions., Sometimes reality sets in. Friday and Saturday were virtual right offs for me nature wise. Friday was work, family party. Saturday was round two of 224 Queen Street insulation. We kicked its ass (150 bags of insulation) but that took the entire day. So there are no photos from either of these days. I did try and be more aware of "outside" as I passed through it. It was fleeting at best.

Fast forward to today. I managed to get the snowshoes on, the GPS out, and do a few kilometres of Snowshoe geocaching. It was fun. I successfully found the two caches I set out to find.

Attached are a GPX and KML version of my GPS logs.

Today in Charlottetown it was all about rain. A steady rain fell across much of Prince Edward Island today. Of course I still decided to walk the 2.2km to work. I've always enjoyed walking in the rain. There is something reassuring and calming about the sound of rain on my hood. I notice the silence the most. There aren't as many animals out and about, all of the sounds of the city are muted by the rain drops, and I seem to be able to concentrate on my thoughts instead of what's outside of my hood.

I must admit, today isn't my best nature effort. I ended up taking the car to work for no good reason (shame). So tonight I wandered a little bit around my neighbourhood. When I say a little bit I mean a couple of minutes. I felt forced but that's part of these things right?

Rain is on the way and the trees and sky are dead silent. It's that feeling you get when you know a storm is on the way but it's not here yet. Everything seems to be holding its breath waiting for it to start. It's strangely peaceful.

The first ever LAN party officially sponsored by silverorange.

Starts: February 21 at 8pm
Ends: February 22 at 7am
Location: In the basement of the First Baptist Church Charlottetown (Corner of Prince and Fitzroy). Use the side entrance on Fitzroy Street.

We're providing the space, the food & drinks (non-alcoholic), the networking equipment, and the general awesomeness. I guess you could consider us a "gold level" sponsor or something like that.

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We launched a ClusterShot blog today. We're hoping to use the blog to interact with buyers and sellers on the site. We promise to be painfully honest, transparent, and somewhat witty.