Halton Hills
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St Indract's Chapel. This little chapel has at various times been a coal merchant's office and a clerks office connected to Halton quay. The room below the chapel was used as a store for salmon fishermen's nets until the demise of salmon fishing in the area.
CN L551 struggles up the grade between Tansley and Ash with a sizeable train of cars for customers in the Milton area. Some of the last GMD1s were thankfully assigned to Southern Ontario locals for their last couple years of service, and people in the region practically tracked their every move (thank you to those who did). L551 had a pair for a couple months, and I fortunately had some vacation time from work to go on an ONR trip. On the way up, we made the right choice to shoot a pair of GMD1s on L551. The local originates in Aldershot Yard, and serves a cluster of customers on the Halton Sub in the Milton area, mainly between the controlled locations of Mansewood and Millbase. In this scene they are in the double track section between Tansley and Ash. Currently, CN is building a new intermodal facility on the outskirts of Milton to help alleviate the always congested BIT and Malport yards further east of here. Because of this, CN has added a new controlled location "Derry" for the intermodal terminal, and has changed some of the blocks around in this area. Unfortunately, that means new signals between Tansley and Derry have been installed and cut over already, killing the 1960s searchlights seen here.
Train: CN L551 with CN 1444 (GMD1u) and CN 1437 (GMD1u).
CN Halton Subdivision
Milton, Ontario
My walk this week started in the village of Halton. The parish church is made of blocks of 'clunch', a hard chalk stone.
The churchyard contains graves of service personnel, a reminder of the RAF's long standing presence in the area.
Excerpt from www.oakville.ca/parks-recreation-culture/arts-culture/pub...:
Giant Beaver Charm, 1999-2000 by Fastwürms
Chrome-plated steel, surgical stainless steel and bronze
The immersive art/life performative works and installations of the Canadian collective Fastwürms bring together conceptual art, popular aesthetics, do-it-yourself amateurism, and humour with various ‘sub-cultural’ sensibilities - queer, working-class, wiccan, occult, and gothic. The duo also has a long-standing affinity with and reverence for the natural world and animals, particularly cats (their own cats often feature in their work).
Wrapped around a distinctive willow tree standing at the edge of the Gairloch Gardens pond, Giant Beaver Charm is – as the title suggests – an oversized charm bracelet with a giant suspended beaver tooth, among other ornaments.
Commissioned as part of the exhibition ‘Beaver Tales’ in 2000, it reworks and subverts Canada’s entrenched national icon, suggesting alternative symbolisms and systems of belief.
Excerpt from the brochure:
29 Ballerina by Carolanne MacLean
This pensive dancer stands in a reflective pose, eyes cast down as it contemplating her next step.
Four doors, six seats
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Chrysler Hemi V8, 160-hp
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'Rock 'n' Roll Classics' downtown juried car show
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Knox Presbyterian Church, Gothic Revival, 1887, rebuilt c1901
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A far-flung corner of the the Dales is in full preparation for spring...lambs are born, muck is spread and...er....that's it really. A simple life. Dare I say this....but we do need rain. There, I said it.
Excerpt from the plaque:
Concert for a Fly
In a small square room is a closed circle of 12 music stands. There is a chair behind each one. Everything is ready for a chamber concert. On the music stands, there are gray pages of cardboard containing pictures on the top part and text on the lower. To the side of the page at the bottom of the stand lies a page with notes and an English translation of the text.
A fly (drawn on paper) hangs immobile above the very center of the circle formed by the music stands, at a height of approximately 3.5 meters. It is very easy to find it in the air, despite its small size – the music stands are arranged in a perfect circle and especially their slants direct our attention to it.
The viewer walks around the entire installation. Everything looks rather serious, respectable: this is some kind of profound text, notes, complex musical phrases on them, and particularly the chairs anticipating musicians who will appear any minute now and begin to play. Everything seems to indicate that the concert is about to begin.
What is the fly doing, suspended immobile above the very center? Is it getting ready to conduct the musicians once they take their seats? Or has the concert been in progress for a long time already, and it is hanging immobile in the air, absorbed by the beautiful music, and in complete oblivion assuming that the concert is taking place on account of it, and perhaps even in its honor?
I just discovered that I could do 5 bracket shots with my Canon 6D so this is my first attempt at 5 shot brackets HDR....
Transbus Dart 11.3m ELC Myllennium Spryte.
Widnes Corporation vintage retro livery
St George Place, Liverpool
Excerpt from the booklet:
Pashmina Goat and Sun Hangul
Speaking of mythology, the shiny black ceramic creatures Pashmina Goat and Sun Hangul seem at once molten and steady – ancestral spirits returned as protectors, roading the night depths, powerful keepers of our memories and dreams. Spirits come to mind because of displacement. Strife and danger in the homeland, caused by human systems and rapid climate change, and the concomitant lack of opportunities for survival continue to force immigration from Kashmir to places in the developed world, often Europe and North America. Do the ancestors travel too? In returning to ancestral land, even if on a temporary visit, does one connect again to familiar deeper understandings?
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
Sixteen Mile Creek is a river in Halton Region in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. It is in the Great Lakes Basin, and flows from the Niagara Escarpment through the towns of Milton and Oakville to Lake Ontario.
The creek is named for the distance from the river's mouth to the western end of Lake Ontario. It was previously known to the Mississauga Indians in their language as Ne-sauga y-onk or niizhozaagiwan ("having two outlets") and to the French as Rivière de Gravois ("gravelly river").
Like many creeks draining into Lake Ontario, Sixteen Mile Creek has cut a deep valley that is home to a broad range of wildlife, including whitetail deer, raccoons, foxes, opossum, and squirrels. The forest contains tree species typical of the Carolinian forest habitat, although since this is close to the northern limit of this zone, some are poorly represented. The total area of the drainage basin is 372 square kilometres (144 sq mi).
In Oakville, it also forms part of Glen Abbey Golf Course and is home to the Oakville Yacht Squadron.