This pile of stones is at the back of Sweetman’s Garden.
Collected evidence of our glacial past.
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Baubles
Seen in a store window:
Impeccable Craftsmanship!
Delightful Delicacy!
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Waiting for Your Call
Here is the launching tube for a local taxi company.
A telephone call will let them fire one out to pick you up!
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Two Versions
Same shot. Two different treatments.
Two different moods.
Preference?
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Rhythmic Trees
The natural curves in trees can produce very rhythmic photographs.
Undulations similar to those employed by dancers.
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Spring Sunset
The sun sets daily whether the lake is frozen or not.
Sometimes we see it, sometimes we don’t.
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Golfer’s Paradise
Passing by the end of One Mile Bay last week before the ice went out, I saw little white dots on the ice. I thought it might be some pre-iceout phenomenon.
Turned out to be golf balls:
Someone getting a bit of early season practice. Or possibly smacking balls regularly all winter?
Must have a contract with Titleist to supply balls. Perhaps a frustrated Masters competitor?
Look out Bubba!
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Oak Leaves
This is a reinterpretation of a photo published earlier in the post “Late” .
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Who Are These People???
The rocks near Nipissing University have the “15 minutes of fame” records of some of the people who will eventually grow up to become solid citizens.
At least they’re colourful!
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1820’s Portage
Imagine voyageurs padding along this path in early spring on the way to Lake Superior.
This is part of the Lavase Portages which saw such traffic for 150 years.
Opening Canada to commerce one (large) canoe at a time.
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Promise of Summer
Even though the ice is still on Lake Nipissing, it’s easy to imagine paddling your feet in the sand in the warm waters of summer.
I can imagine the little kids splashing in the water.
When summer comes, this is very, very good!
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Lake Nipissing Ice
The ice in Nipissing is being blown around by the wind.
Sunset point has collected some of the shards of the winter’s ice.
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Lavase Portage
For about 150 years the canoes of the North West Company left Montreal in the spring bound for Grand Portage on Lake Superior. There they met canoes from Western Canada and exchanged trading goods and supplies for furs. Returning by the same route in late summer they would arrive in Montreal in the fall. This is a part of one of the many portages that they were forced to make. It lies between the Ottawa/Mattawa river system and Lake Nipissing. Crossing this portage got the canoes to Lake Nipissing and eventually via the French River into Lake Huron which connected to Lake Superior.
An exciting story which includes this unexciting piece of swamp where the mud (“la vase”) and the mosquitos drove the Voyageurs to distraction with every upriver trip. By autumn, the mosquitos were gone and the swamp drier.
The canoes portaged here were large “canots de maitre”, 35-40 feet long and carrying up to 10 000 pounds including a crew of 10-14 paddlers.
In recent years, the Friends of the Lavase Portages have worked hard to keep them open and in the public mind. It has been an uphill battle from the beginning.
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Found Art
Another part of yesterday’s building:
Abstract created by spray paint, plywood and the weather.
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