The inner harbour area was the scene of greater waterside development in the past. Above, a row of spikes are pretty much all that is left of an old wharf. Below, the last mill, now a restaurant and shops complex, still a tad darkish but Satanically sanitized.

This is another picture that begs me to buy a proper zoom lens digital camera. Living by the big lake you see some odd mirages. Sometimes you can see the hills of Pennsylvania floating above the pale horison, sometimes the edge of the sky looks like a saw from the image of the far off deep lake …

Another found thing in Fluhrer Park - an old man hole cover with the words "Angrove's Foundry". It is undated but given the font, as we all have said at one time or another, is not new.  •  Click on these photos for a closer view.

I was out of the office today at meetings on Rideau Street and at lunch walked around this small limestone industrial building which is surrounded by boards next to Fluhrer Park. On Arthur's suggestion I am using thumbnails which does work well for this kind of set of photos. Good thing I have a …

Fort Frontenac is a small fort in (and the historical epicentre of) downtown Kingston which was occupied by the French from 1673 to 1758, the British from 1758(-ish) to 1871 and Canada since then. It also played a role in US history as the base for LaSalle's explorations. It is a working military …

At Ontario on Stoney's.

This is an odd bit of residual demolition - a second story fireplace left hanging after the removal of its neighbour years ago. It's on the west side of Stoney's on King Street if you have not noticed it.

At the bottom of Brock Street below Ontario, there is unpaved patch of cobbles. The never-endingly wonderful Forgotten New York has a section dedicated to cobbles and Belgian blocks. These Kingstonians may actually be cobbles, individually hand-cut and squared limestone rocks, rather than the mass …