Posts Tagged: Kingston
One For the Armourer
Posted by on Monday, November 8, 2004 in - 1 comment
I noticed this on my noon walk today as I was passing St. Andrew's Presbyterian at Princess and (I think) Clergy. Notice that the cannon is in the lower right of the picture at the left. Click for bigger images.
Kingston in the Fall
Posted by on Thursday, October 28, 2004 in - leave a comment
Kingston Blogger Meet-up
Posted by on Sunday, October 24, 2004 in - 8 comments
Last night, we stopped off at the student union center at Queens to drop in on the inaugural Kingston bloggers get together. As it is homecoming weekend, the city is littered with guys my age and older in their own undergrad leather jackets looking for a keg party to crash so it was easy to …
Open Government
Posted by on Thursday, October 21, 2004 in - leave a comment
I don't talk about work much as I work for a government and get to go to meetings that you don't - so it would not be fair, loyal or smart. But I like what I do and I like it ever so much more when I see things like this in the paper - which is an good nosey paper by the way: • “ • Have your …
Baker Dudes
Posted by on Monday, October 11, 2004 in - 1 comment
Pan Chancho Bakery
Posted by on Sunday, October 10, 2004 in - 3 comments
I have a week off. I have a week off with nothing planned. I will probably go to the Pan Chancho Bakery a few times during the week. • City Hall, left, and Pan Chancho Bakery, right. • My problem with Pan Chancho is based largely on the fact that I work in the big building to the left while …
Kingston in October
Posted by on Saturday, October 9, 2004 in - leave a comment
The extraordinary fall continues with temperatures in the 20s C or 70s F, no killing frost yet and lots of leaves still on the trees. This was the start of the walk to work yesterday. I played soccer last evening under lights, the turf softer than summer but just as lush. Magic.
Detail
Posted by on Saturday, October 2, 2004 in - 6 comments
I have written about the great portrait collection at work before. I have a hard time keeping my eyes off this particular painting when I am in a meeting in a certain room and especially the detail over the shoulder of the Mayor for 1898, Charles Livingston: • What a merry little steam ship. I …
Jetsicle VI
Posted by on Tuesday, September 28, 2004 in - 7 comments
Oh, goodie! They are back: • Not often you get to see a snazzy plaque to a Victoria Cross Winner. Here is a short description of the events leading to the award of the medal to Robert Hampton Gray: • “The war was nearly over, but the Fleet Air Arm still had business to do. On a clear and sunny …
South By Moonlight
Posted by on Sunday, September 26, 2004 in - leave a comment
A clear night tonight. I really need a zoom as with the binoculars you can see separate lights of Watertown, NY. That's the orange-ish blog to the left of the base of the three whites one above each other next to the eight red lights in a grid seen in the detail below. Both sides of the St …
