Friday, 18 April 2014

Tour of the Neighbourhood-Jamesville, Hamilton

 
After an exhausting week,  I slept through Art Crawl so made up for it by taking in a mini crawl of my own the next day.  The weather breaks and pansies appear.  Nice to see flower boxes appearing along the street.
 
 
 
First stop was McCartney and Son where they have added a line of organic ice cream to the menu.  Went with ginger and chai. Delicious.  Took refuge in the park which afforded a fine view of men in kilts; a wedding was in full swing and the bagpipes provided a pleasant soundtrack. Not a fan of the pipes?
 
 
 
 
My quest for seven inch cake tins took me to Chris' Store Fixtures.  Browsers paradise.
 

 
 
 
Christ Church Anglican where the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir were in town.  Lovely voices.
 
 

 





Very Anne Tyler...


Old painted signage.



 
 
The Futbale Club

 
 
Then on to Charred for Matzah Ball soup. Very fragrant, nicely seasoned.

 
 


And no meal would be complete without a Paleta.  This time it's chocolate almond. 


 
 
More street art...
 
 
 
 
 
 
James St.

The Federal Building

Federal Building-detail

The Hydro Building

Hydro Building II
 
James Street-a little TLC required.

If we could do something about the fire escape...
 
 
To the core where the soundtrack changed to the clarinet.  Still battling this eyesore...
 
 
 
The Bell Building

Whitehearn
 

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Adieu, Winter.

"Ripe plums are falling..."   Although I suspect these are apples.


Big trees-Newmarket

Leslie, Newmarket-long & winding

Curvaceous trunks

Winter corn

Farm

Blowing snow-Aurora

A tidy front porch

Quaker Cemetery-Newmarket-heavy flurries

Order I-Niagara Region

Order II

Order III

Chaos I-old orchard

Chaos II-old vineyard in flurries

Harvest

Abandoned house-Niagara





Ubiquitous Canada Geese

Distillery District-Toronto

Escarpment-Hamilton-frozen creek

Behold the forest!

Frozen creek

Windblown!

Farm-Kirk Rd. Hamilton

Old Stump


Blackheath-the silence!

Rosehips



Blackheath blue skies

Tyneside Road

more geese-Grand River-Caledonia

Caledonia-South bank

The old mill

Grand River-storm damage I

Storm damage II



Ducks

Tree I

Tree II

Wednesday, 19 February 2014