Posts Tagged: Kingston
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 …
At the ICU
Posted by on Friday, September 24, 2004 in - 3 comments
Things seen and heard in the ICU: • Visitor:"How will it be when he wakes" • Nurse: "Is he a smoker?" • Visitor: "No" • Nurse: "Then he'll be fine." • It is a little odd to see your Dad happily snoozing on morphine. All non-emerg and going well, thanks. • After seeing cops and …
Ho Hum...City Life
Posted by on Monday, September 20, 2004 in - 1 comment
* • No one talks about great urban sunsets. Why? There's even a farm in that there link if you know what you are looking for. • *[Ed: My wife want you to know that she took this]
Still More &%(% Buildings
Posted by on Sunday, September 5, 2004 in - leave a comment
Here some recent shots from around the downtown of Kingston. The plaque is from the picture to its left and sets out the history of the structure as a bank under four companies since 1876. The bank is in the back of this shot from a post about its neighbours. The domed building is the back of this …
58 Brock
Posted by on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 in - 1 comment
Lake
Posted by on Saturday, August 28, 2004 in - 12 comments
Maritimers like me have this twisted view of Ontario as a land of concrete and no Alpine beer. At the east end of Lake Ontario, however, a cottage on a clean lake in the woods is far closer than it is from Halifax. This spot is 40 km from downtown Kingston.
Another Game
Posted by on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 in - leave a comment
Market Day
Posted by on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 in - 3 comments
Market day is Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Right now it is all peaches and tomatoes. In a few weeks it will all be apples. Here is a short short movie, 3.8 MB for 10 seconds of a view from above, taken off the fire escape under the dome at the lower right. Below, a panorama from north to the …
