The leaves of autumn glow when you look up, look waaay up.
Colour For A Dull Morning
It’s been rather dull lately, particularly this morning.
Perhaps this will help to brighten your day.
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Fading Away
Old memories fading away.
Lack of interest.
Lack of will.
Soon, nothing.
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Temiscaming Power House
Power for the Town of Temiscaming, QC, was provided by this powerhouse on the banks of the Ottawa River. Water from Gordon Creek was delivered by a large pipe built of wood bound by metal straps. The water’s journey began well above the town, passing through here, spinning the turbines and ending in the Ottawa River.
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Autumn Maples
Maples in my part of the world can give the most audacious reds one will ever see.
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Sumac Glow
When autumn comes, the rather unremarkable sumac bush takes on very remarkable colours.
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It Doesn’t Stop Anymore
The train doesn’t run these days.
But it once did regular trips bringing people and goods to the upper Ottawa Valley and the Town of Mattawa and beyond.
The station is derelict and decaying slowly. The ghosts of the past flow through the mind when walking the platform. The sounds of steam and diesel echo in the Valley.
Once upon a time it was a robust cared-for building filled with pride.
The changing of life in Canada cost it its life as a useful citizen.
Now the trains rumble right on by without blinking.
The ephemeral air of the sadness of allowing such a building and its memories to deteriorate to nothingness permeates the place.
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Home Sweet Home
The train station in Mattawa has become derelict and its occupants are quite comfortable with the accommodation.
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Walking Down To The River
The concrete structure supported the penstock delivering water to the Kipawa Generating Station in Temiscaming, QC.
The penstock is gone and its route has been used to create a unique park.
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Temiscaming Pipeline Park
The Kipawa Power Station on the East bank of the Ottawa River in Temiscaming was supplied by a pipe of the diameter you see in the photograph. The pipe collected water at the Lumsden Dam on Gordon Creek above the town, ran through the centre of town and delivered the water to the turbines in the power house. The electricity was used to power the pulp mill and light the town.
The town has created a linear Park with historical information stops to tell the story of the development of Temiscaming.
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Abandoned Power House
This powerhouse supplied Temiscaming, Quebec with electrical power from around 1923.
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Hint Of Winter
The last of the leaves have hung on until the first light overnight snow dusts them as a reminder of the inevitability of the coming of Winter.
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Eyes On North Bay
Since 1904 these eyes have observed the life of the city of North Bay from high atop the steeple of St. Andrew’s United Church.
The inevitable deterioration wrought by the elements has weakened the top portion of the structure and it will disappear within the week
These elegant shapes will be gone forever.
Only their memory will exist.
They served their purpose well.
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