Posts Tagged: Kingston
Yachtsman
Posted by on Monday, March 8, 2004 in - leave a comment
The Yachtsman's Week-end Book, by Irving et al., 1963 2nd edition • One of my favorite things to do when struck by a seized back is to lay still and discover innovations in over the counter back medicines. Next to that is to read a few stand-by books, an this one that always give delight and up …
Old Speckled Hen
Posted by on Sunday, March 7, 2004 in - 2 comments
To the west of City Hall on Ontario Street there are a row of watering holes including the nearest, the Old Speckled Hen, which is a bit of a faux pub but not a bad faux pub in an 1809 building discussed earlier. • Sadly it does not even sell Old Speckled Hen, a loverly hoppy ESB now made by …
Pen Drive-by
Posted by on Sunday, March 7, 2004 in - leave a comment
I found this image of Collins Bay Pen oddly festive.
The View West
Posted by on Sunday, March 7, 2004 in - leave a comment
Jesus light at sunset over Dupont • I caught this shot the other week, before the thaw which turned much of Lake Ontario to that spongy grey ice one step away from lolly. The factory in the foreground are the Dupont nylon and research plants with their 1200 jobs. In the background farther west …
Dentils
Posted by on Sunday, February 29, 2004 in - leave a comment
Some wicked dentilation action, eh?
Spring is a comin'
Posted by on Saturday, February 28, 2004 in - 2 comments
All melting all the time! Don't things look much warmer in Farenheit? • Seeing as it is within view, I find the weather forcasts from the next TV south at WWTI Watertown is more reliable for this corner of the lake compared to Ottawa or Toronto generated CBC radio weather. Kind of like the Bar …
New Copper
Posted by on Friday, February 27, 2004 in - 2 comments
Waiting to be green • A team of craftsfolk put new copper around the base of the dome, up there half the winter. Stopped the leaks.
Hand Cut
Posted by on Friday, February 27, 2004 in - 1 comment
Two examples of 1800's hand cut stone. The left an 1840s basement arch at City Hall, the second from a later building at Brock and King.
America
Posted by on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 in - 2 comments
America is grey line on the horizon beyond Wolfe Island to the south east as viewed from the mouth of the Little Cataraqui River. The highlands, beyond Watertown, in the south-east of Jefferson County, New York, fifty some miles away, rise to 1,500 feet and form the western edge of the Adirondacks.
King Street's Marketside
Posted by on Tuesday, February 24, 2004 in - 1 comment
More #*$#*& Buildings • A morning shot of the block to facing the back of City Hall across the market. To the very left is the pale red Ontario Savings Bank building next to firmer red of the Whig Building, both undergoing a cleaning this winter; then the unfortunately 1/3 painted face of the …
