Posts Tagged: Kingston
Garden 2013: It's Still March But Planting's Begun
Posted by on Saturday, March 30, 2013 in - leave a comment
It has begun. A sunny Saturday reaching up towards maybe 7F today. I took down the cold frame that sat out back all winter and found one lone red lettuce plant growing along with a fair number of carrots. Leeks survived, hilled, out back and out front. Parsnips are starting to poke up enough green …
My Place Of Work 136 Years Ago
Posted by on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 in - leave a comment
Another in the occasional series showing how my place of work was protected by a seawall... or a lake wall at least with cannon. I like how this drawing by George Harlow White from 1876 gives a sense of scale of the wall's height.
Sandy May Come To Say Hello Wednesday
Posted by on Sunday, October 28, 2012 in - 2 comments
Hurricane Sandy. Sounds too benign to be a real threat. It's only a category one at the moment. Nothing like when Juan bashed the family cottage nine years ago. Not like Gustav the year before that knocked down the big old birth at the farm house. But still a big water dump is a coming. Six cm or …
My Place Of Work About 160 Years Ago
Posted by on Sunday, September 16, 2012 in - 4 comments
My place of work in the 1850s when the waters lapped up to the stone wall of the market battery. As in a battery of cannon that protected the market. Because City Hall was built in the 1840s on part of the market square that he been there for decades before that. If you click on the picture you …
Your Friday Bullet Points For The End of April
Posted by on Friday, April 27, 2012 in - 2 comments
Did you miss these bullet points? Fridays have been hard lately. Or at least I have lost all imagination. I think that may be it. Or there are four to six kids in the house at any one time. I am liking the garden blogging. Gar-logging? I miss 2004. When poeple pretended blogging would change the …
Marsh Fire In March In Kingston
Posted by on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 in - leave a comment
Last time I saw one of these was back in 2005. It may have a ways to go before it is done but we do have a fire boat now.
The Damn Inaccessibility Of The Archives
Posted by on Thursday, July 28, 2011 in - 1 comment
Roaming around the 238 posts about Kingston, I found this image of the moon over Elevator Bay. I had forgotten I had taken it, let alone posted it back in 2005. This is the 5,334th post at Gen X at 40 as it turns out and there is no way I could recall all of them - on top of over 2,000 at the beer …
Last Night From The Roof Of City Hall
Posted by on Thursday, June 9, 2011 in - leave a comment
Royal Military College's Arch Ceremony 2011
Posted by on Friday, May 20, 2011 in - 1 comment
One of the things I love most about my town is the ability to have met and get to know some folk at Canada's Royal Military College. It sits across the harbour from my window at work and the fourth year cadets organize the annual charity vintage base ball game. Today was the final day of their …
Friday Bullets For The Big Ball Games
Posted by on Friday, May 6, 2011 in - 2 comments
What a run of attention getters. Taxes due. Election. Royal wedding. Osama killed. And what is most on your mind? The Royal Military College annual vintage base ball games, of course. This year, the Kingston St. Lawrence takes on RMC at the historic Cricket Fields in Kingston, site of actual …
