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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Wildflower garden is loving the rain. I hate it.

Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

File this one under 'ran when parked.' Just kidding. Parts of this heavy metal sculpture may have run at some point in their lives, but never as a unit. Rusting in peace at the Saskatoon Farm south of Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I have no idea what this guy is doing, but I am really really jealous.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The Winter that just won't end made another charge today, dropping multiple centimeters of you-know-what on Calgary. I'm not sure what it will take to get Spring to out in a serious appearance.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

RosieRocket folded the paper and stapled it to make a book and then filled it with what she called, "kid writing. Adults can't read it." And she was right about that. Note delicately raised pinkie. My gratuitousgranddaughtergraphic for today.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

One year clean and my dealer shows up at my door.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Someone told me that Ireland had 60 shades of green. After visiting there, my thought was, "Only 50?" This is the view from Blarney Castle toward the Poison Garden. And yes, there are samples and seeds in the gift shop.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Actually, the #Bushmills bottle is perfectly vertical. I am the one who is tilting. Happy St. Patrick's Day.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Happy St. Patrick's Day. May your roof never fall in, and those beneath it never fall out.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Sorry! This overnight dump is my fault. I put away the snow shovel yesterday.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Just to show it's not done yet, Winter dropped a cold, white reminder last night that it's only March and motorcycling season is still in the distant future.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Spring cleaning... I have GOT to start throwing stuff out.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Today's very spring-like weather in Calgary causes thoughts to wander to motorcycle-riding weather and the resulting trips. This one was to Salt Spring Island on BC's West Coast.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Carson Daniel is not much on crafts, but coffee filter, marker-smeared, clothes-pinned, pipe-cleanered butterflies caught his 7-year-old imagination.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

When the #snow comes in #sideways and it's -19c for the day's high, green #trees become #frosted against eye-achingly #blue #skies. #Winter in #Alberta.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I am okay with the #Jawas at the #party, but who invited the Sand People? Remember what happened last time? Actual event was a couple of days ago, but I just now sobered up enough to post. 😉 #birthday #Starwars #Sandpeople.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Birthday card from my constant riding companion. Inside it says, "Over the hill?" and he scribed in capital letters, " NAH!"

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Sunsets in the mirror are closer than they appear. Spectacular one this evening.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Been a bit busy lately, so haven't posted much. Here's a bridge in a town with an unpronouncable name in Ireland. I asked a local about the wood debris and he gave me a minutes long dissertation on a recent flood, with hand gestures and sound effects. I didn't understand a single word.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

"Okay. Okay. Guess this one. 'You dirty rat. You killed my brudder'."

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Wow. Mark Carney, potential new Liberal Leader and Prime Minister here in Canada, was on @thedailyshow.com with Jon Stewart tonight. And he did a very good job, I think, because he came across as both smart/experienced AND engaging with a sense of humour. Very interesting. youtu.be/zs8St-fF0kE

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Mark Carney - Canada Not Interested in Trump’s Offer & Liberal Leadership Prospects | The Daily Show

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Sorry to make you squint, but if you look at the top right hand corner, you'll see a tiny red spot. That's the planet Mars paying a visit to tonight's full moon.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Full moon rose into the ice clouds above Calgary this evening. January's full moon is the Wolf Moon.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Maisy Storm, one of my three favourite #granddaughters turned three years old this week.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Another #photograph from #Ireland. This is a very early #misty #morning drive on the #M9 #motorway into #Dubliin. I loved how the #layers of Ireland seemed to stack up no matter where you looked. #mistyirishmorning

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The depths of #winter here in #Calgary requires a visit to #photographs taken in #warmer days and warmer places. My #Victory #CrossCountry parked at a viewpoint in the #Petrified Forest, Painted #Desert, #Arizona.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

In October, some freakish good weather allowed us a very-late-season #motorcycle ride up Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park in #Montana. Here riding buddy Don and his #Triumph Tiger head for the visitor centre at the top of Logan Pass. #glaciernationalpark

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I am about to kiss off 2024, far from the best year on record. There is one photo from this past year that I am particularly proud of. I took it during my magical trip to Ireland in September. Leighlinbridge, County Carlow.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I am seeing #online that people are posting photos of the #books they read in 2024. I'm hopping on that #bandwagon. I read the middle two on the lower shelf. #happynewyear #2025

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

It's back. After a somewhat dappled-but-above-freezing Christmas, winter white put in an appearance in Calgary this morning. It's -4C and I am breaking out my copy of Ima Baer's book Hibernating For Dummies.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Trying out a buddy's #homemade #VW trike. It fired up, rolled forward and, when gas was applied, flipped over on its back. Version 2 had a kicked out front end and #wheelie casters. #PowellRiver #BritishColimbia #1969 #Whyarewestillalive?

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

#Grandson #Carson discovered some #Christmas #magic when he took on a flat-pack #puzzle and found it created a lighted, rotating, 3-D Christmas #tree #music box.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Heavy traffic at the #bird #feeder this morning, including this house #finch. She's sharing breakfast with a variety of #sparrows, #nuthatches, other #finches, #juncos and #chickadees. Plus one polite #magpie.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Frame from a #GoPro #video of a #club #ride I led up Highway 40/Highwood Pass, located between #Calgary and #Banff. Anyone else have a few hundred hours of GoPro video they intend to #edit "someday"? #highway40 #highwoodpass #victoryriderscalgary #canada

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

One fun day in New Mexico, we rolled up to a #diner in a town called #Madrid. If you know, you know. The former hardware store was never a diner before the #movie crew came to town. The woman running the now #souvenir shop was delightful. #wildhogs #newmexico

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and sky. And all I ask is a Victory Cross Country and a map to steer her by. Somewhere along Highway 101 and the Pacific Ocean. #motorcycle #travel #highway101 #masefieldapologies

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This how she looked in August. 2014 #Victory Cross Country. She looked the same in October except the odometer had clicked over 100,000 kilometres. Nicely broken in. #victorymotorcycles #100000km #motorcycle

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This falls into the 'if you know, you know' category. If you don't know, this is the #summit of #Beartooth #Pass in #Montana just a wolf howl northeast of #Yellowstone. I took the photo in #June. #beartoothpass #iykyk #Victory #motorcycle

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It's -1C at my place in #Calgary this morning. The photo was taken a few years ago in Death Valley, #California on an April day where the temperature hit #41C. #deathvalley #victorycrosscountry #motorcycle

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Flipping through my #photographs from this past season's #motorcycle #rides, I came across this one Freak #weather permitted an early #October trip across #Glacier National Park in #Montana, aka Logan Pass, aka Going to the Sun Road. This is St. Mary Lake. #glaciernationalpark #loganpass

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

At our house, they are known, inelegantly, as the "#Christmas #bugs." They are #laser #lights dancing around the front of the #house in lieu of Xmas lights. #Christmaslights #christmasbugs #yyc #happyholidays

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Woke up the #morning remembering a special day in New #Mexico. We landed at #Shiprock just as the #sun was setting. No greater #magic than that moment. #newmexico #Sunset #Victorymotorcycles #magicmotorcyclemoment

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It's #amazing to me how many great #musicians have their #birthdays this time of year.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

What makes a great #motorcycle #ride? The weather? The #bike? The companions? The road? The route? The #destination? The answer is yes. #theanswerisyes.

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Occasionally the grey army #blanket of #winter #cloud #shreds so we can remember blue #skies. Today in #YYC. #rememberblueskies

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Drifter Don @drifterdon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I have three beautiful #granddaughters. Charlotte is the second youngest and lives the closest. Project for today is Duplo #castles.

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