Prince George Hotel - 196 years old

Update: if you stare at these photos long enough  •  you start to see daleks.  •  This is more of a test for me that something of interest for you so bear with me for a mo.  •  First view of Watertown, NY - watertower to left sharper  •  18 km to Cape Vincent NY  •  Second view of Watertown, NY …

I am playing with the new camera and the old binoculars. This is the Wolfe Island Ferry this morning on a fairly hazy day looking towards the east at 9 am. It's about 6 km away. Compared to past zooming south experiments, this is pretty good. Click on the photo for the effect of a 3x camera held …

Nosing around again at the dig at Market Square today, as the Tonka trucks roared, I was interested to see the coin of the archaeologists had uncovered, a 1812 half penny token. My shot of the side with the king's head is not that sharp but it does confirm there are no words on that side …

All day, I could not think of anything to write. Having had a awful sleep for no particular reason and a busy and useful day, I had in the back of my mind the idea that I should have something to write about. I have a few ace in the hole topics that I figure I will write about in a pinch, like the …

Evergreens get no respect. They have no burst of autumn red. Each spring they do not provide a new face of green each day. They do not make that summer sound in the wind. These two pines, however, make a subtle show each April for a few hours in the first sunny still and warming day as their …

I like my job. I get to work with firemen, police, sewer builders and others I collectively call the Tonkas because there is big neato component to what they do. They do big. The other day I noticed this great, almost medieval, bit of book rack design in one of their buildings. Beefy.

Barriefield sits to the east of old downtown Kingston, just over the Cataraqui River, largely a collection of 1830s to 1860s cottages to the south of St. Marks Anglican. The plaque out front reads:  •  “This church, a fine example of the early style of Gothic Revival architecture, was built with …

Here are some incidental shorts of the downtown area that I was able to glean quickly from the winter's photo taking through Picasa. It is odd all of a sudden having an addiction to Picasa and gmaps and Google news and gmail. Have I been co-opted?