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My current fave TV series - and one of my current fave actors! Tom Ellis as "Lucifer bloody Morningstar". "So what is it that YOU desire most..."
This shot's been plaguing me for a couple of days now. It follows on from my previous Dragon's Reach shot. I know it's not quite right (among other things I had the wrong susprite fx installed when I was shooting it) but I revisited it and couldn't quite capture the same feel so I decided to post it bugs and all and move on...
The northbound train has jut delivered a fresh load of empties and picked up some loaded boxcars at the Morningstar Packing company in Williams California. If you buy any kind of canned tomatoes in the western US, there is a good chance they came from here,
Took this one a few years ago, forgot I had it, but came across it yesterday and am happy to have another photo to add to my red barn series.
The Morningstar Mill is a small, rural industrial heritage site at Decew Falls in the City of St. Catharines, Ontario. It features a working grist mill built in 1872, a turbine shed, a sawmill, a blacksmith and carpentry shop (shown), and the historic home of the Morningstar family. The Mill provides a rare glimpse back in time to when moving water was used to mechanically grind grain into flour.
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My current fave TV series - and one of my current fave actors! Tom Ellis as "Lucifer bloody Morningstar". "So what is it that YOU desire most..."
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Morningstar Mill is a 2.98-acre (1.21 ha) heritage site located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. The site includes the Morningstar Mill, a sawmill, the home of the Morningstar family, a barn used for blacksmith demonstrations, and the Decew Falls gorge along the Niagara Escarpment.
The site is operated by the volunteer group Friends of Morningstar Mill and owned by the City of St. Catharines. The gristmill was restored to working condition in 1992.
After the War of 1812, landowner John DeCou built a stone-grist mill with an overhead waterwheel at Decew Falls. The property was sold in 1894, after the first Welland Canal was constructed, as the mill no longer had an adequate water supply. In 1872, a new mill was built on the foundation of the former DeCou Mill. This new mill, called Mountain Mills, was built by Robert Chappel. The new stone-grist mill was turbine-powered instead of water-powered. Mountain Mills was purchased by the St. Catharines Waterworks in 1875 to prevent claims of water loss supply when the Beverdams Creek above Decew Falls was dammed. The mill was sold to Wilson Morningstar after water supply was restored.
Morningstar would receive 1/12 of the flour or feed produced by the gristmill as payment. In 1895, Morningstar rebuilt after a fire destroyed everything except the stone structure.
Morningstar died in 1933 and his family operated the mill after his death. In 1983, the property was purchased by the City of St. Catharines.
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#7 1083 Barkway Road Lot 15, Conc. 13, "Pines and Maples":
Godfrey Speicher registered this land on August 12, 1898. He and his wife Elizabeth raised nine children. They owned both sides of Conc. 13 at this site, thus the house on one side and the barn on the other. (It now has two separate owners.) The bank barn 40 x 80 was built in approximately 1900 by Richard Rusk. The wooden structure was lifted and a new wall was built underneath by Godfrey Speicher, a stonemason and farmer. His father Niklaus with his brother Albert likely completed it in 1909. The Speicher family kept cows, sheep, a few pigs and hens. They made crocks of butter and later sold cream by shipping in cream cans. In the summer Mrs. Speicher made cheese for their own use and some was sold. The sheep were clipped every spring and the wool was taken to Bird’s Woollen Mills in Bracebridge and exchanged for cloth, blankets, yarn and some cash.
They, as did other settlers in the area, took logs to ‘Weismillers Mill’ in Germania and hemlock bark to the Tanneries in Bracebridge. They also took wood to Gravenhurst in winter for the price of $2.50, $3.00 or $4.00 per cord. Mr. Speicher doctored animals in the community as veterinarians were scarce at that time. He built chimneys, cellar walls, fireplaces, some culverts and abutments for small bridges. On July 5, 1940, the property was transferred to his son Charles, who also raised his family there. Members of the Speicher family still reside in Ryde.
From 1975 to 2006 this barn and surroundings buildings were the home of South Meadow Farm Antiques. Today this property is a private residence with no public access to the property.
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#9 1235 Barkway Road, Lot 15, Conc. 11, "Morningstar":
Property was originally part of the farm of John Rebman, a pioneer here in Ryde, and is retained by the family to the present day. The current family have always maintained an interest in farms and pioneer life. The house was built in 1973 and is retained by the same owners. The family are collectors of Cockshutt antique tractors which they often show. They are active members of the Muskoka Pioneer Power Association. This is a private residence without access to the property.
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#10 1326 Barkway Road Lot 16, Conc. 10, "Crossroads":
Land was registered from the Crown to John Farley on September 30, 1875. Mr. Farley sold all pine to Georgian Bay Lumber Company for five years. This amount was registered on title on September 5, 1880. Mr. Farley sold all lands to Horace Yeoman and it was registered on February 25, 1885 for $2,000. (After this time various owners of all or part of Lot 16: Martin Clement, Marshall Davy, Samuel Downey, James Post, John Boon, Ella Thompson, Walden Clement, Stephen Dart and Phyletus Brace.)
On October 9, 1920, Phyletus Brace sold to Jacob (& Elizabeth) Rebman for $2,000. In 1936 Jacob passed away while driving horses. Albert Duggan was with him at the time and was able to take control of the team. Wes Rebman, their son and his wife Florence acquired the farm property at that time. They had been residing on a farm on Merkley Road but moved to this location at the four corners of Barkway to live with his widowed Mother. Wes Rebman with the help of others raised the barn and put in a foundation at that time. The original bank barn was 36 x 50 and made mostly of pine, built to house cattle and horses. Both cream and milk were sold. Aubrey Rebman, son of Wes states that Mr. Plewis picked up the milk with horses. He had a coal oil heater to help keep him warm. After that time Lorne McWade picked up the milk in cans.
Eileen Taverner (Rebman) daughter of Wes and Florence tells of “lots of chores to be done on the farm but we had fun too. I remember the home made skis I had and the sleigh rides in the winter. We had Christmas concerts and Friday night dances at the Orange Hall across from our house. My Mother would bring over a big pot of tea and put it on the wood stove at the hall.
Candy bars were a nickel, there was lots of penny candy. Coke was the big drink for about 10 cents. Postage stamps were 1-2 cents each for post cards and 3 cents for a letter, and coal oil was 50 cents a gallon.” Mrs. Taverner still resides in the village of Barkway. On May 15, 1987 the Rebman family sold the farm. There have been other owners since that time. This is a private residence without access to the property.
3 exposure HDR. again, some of you may remember this scene of the Morningstar Mill from some photos I posted last summer... I had been wanting to come back here and re-shoot this scene with my wide angle lens. So here is the result - I was really pleased to be able to get these foreground grasses into the frame which had been impossible to do with my 18-70mm lens. However if you view the image at full size you will notice some significant blurring towards the corners. I am not sure how much of that is caused by the wind and how much has been caused by a short coming in the lens focus. I have just been reading some reviews of the Sigma 10-20mm and they do report loss of focus towards the corners. I am finding this quite frustrating because otherwise this would be one of my very best images...
Another view of the Morningstar Mill at Decew Falls in St. Catharines, Ontario.
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My amazingly insane foray into complicated bentos for our day trip to MomoCon, an anime convention. Inspiration: e-obento.com :)
This is my husband's kitty bento. ( I couldn't decide between the kitty and the bamboo so I did both)