La Vall del Tenes
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Named after, yep you guessed it, the corona virus lol.
Rona is the farm owners dog and he got her when covid first hit, hence the name.
She is only young, although she is a working breed she does diddly squat.
She didn't like cats but now she does, she basically has no choice and all the cats quickly put her in her place if she steps out of line.
Alpe Rona is an alpine meadow with a working farm where cheese is made in the Austrian Alps. It is situated above Bürserberg on the Tschengla plateau at 1280 metres.
You can easily drive to the Tschengla plateau by car and then follow one of the many hiking or mountain bike trails. We hiked up past Alpe Rona to a viewpoint (see my next photo). [Explored on 16/08/2025, #67]
While holidaying on Skye, we drove up the coast to take a look over to the Isle of Rona where we'd holidayed a few years ago. As we gazed out, a rainstorm approached and quickly overwhelmed us as we snapped away happily.
Photographers are weird.
Seen in my set entitled "Mississauga"
www.flickr.com/photos/21861018@N00/sets/72157600987373042/
I've often mentioned that I work at RONA, which is a Canadian competitor to Home Depot and Lowes.
When I was growing up, our family business (Pleasant View Farms) was engaged in the wholesale and retail sales of farm and landscaping/nursery supplies: hardware, fencing, pesticides, plants, hay/straw for bedding, containers, firewood, seed, clothing, paint and on and on.
In 2002, after many years in various endeavours (museums, teaching English, marketing, I was accepted in the seasonal department at RONA, where I employed the skills and knowledge that I had garnered so many years before at Pleasant View Farms.
If you visit while I'm at RONA, you'll likely find me in the greenhouse and/or garden centre. I also spend a good deal of time on the seasonal hardware floor.
It's just part-time... a day or two a week, but it suits nicely.
About RONA
wrightreports.ecnext.com/coms2/reportdesc_COMPANY_C1248L300
Rona Inc. The Group's principal activity is to retail and distribute hardware, home improvement and gardening products in Canada. The Group operates in two segments namely Corporate and Franchised Stores and Distribution. The Corporate and Franchised stores segment relates to the retail operations of corporate stores and the Group's share of the retail operations of the franchised stores in which the Group has an interest. The Distribution segment relates to the supply activities to affiliated, franchised and corporate stores. As of 19-Feb-2008, the Group had 77 Big-Box stores, 327 Proximity stores and 235 Specialized stores and 40 specialized ICI.
RONA.ca Information
www.rona.ca/content/investor-relations
General Links:
www.mssociety.ca/en/events/biketour/default.htm
RONA History
1982 - Ro-Na purchased the assets of Botanix.
1984 - Ro-Na created a purchasing alliance with Ontario-based Home Hardware Stores Ltd. through Alliance RONA Home Inc.
1988 - Ro-Na merged with Dismat, another building materials company, to create Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc.
1990 - Ro-Na formed an alliance with Hardware Wholesalers, Inc. of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1997 - ITM Entreprises S.A., a France-based group, invests $30 million in the Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc. ITM becomes a shareholder and forms a purchasing alliance with Ro-Na.
1998 - Ro-Na eliminates the Le Quincailleur and Dismat names and introduces RONA L'express, RONA L'express Matériaux and RONA Le Rénovateur Régional. It also changes its name from Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc. to RONA Inc.
1999 - RONA opens a new warehouse adjacent to its headquarters, measuring 654,000 square feet (61,000 m²), doubling its warehousing capacity and achieving considerable cost savings.
2000 - RONA acquires Cashway Building Centres, with 66 stores. It permanently opens its online store on the rona.ca website.
2001 - RONA acquires 51 Revy, Revelstoke and Lansing stores and thus owning many more stores in the Greater Toronto Area.
2002 - RONA closes a public offering consisting of a total offering of $150.1 million of Common Shares. RONA's Common Shares are then traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "RON".
2003 - RONA acquires Réno-Dépôt Inc. from British Kingfisher plc, including The Building Box stores. RONA also opens its third large distribution center in Calgary, Alberta.
2004 - RONA acquires Totem Building Supplies Ltd., an Alberta company. RONA Dream Home airs on Global. RONA also joins the AIR MILES Reward Program.
2005 - RONA Dream Home 2 airs on Global.
2006 - RONA acquires a majority (51%) stake in Matériaux Coupal Inc..
2006 - RONA acquires Curtis Lumber Building Supplies
2007 - RONA acquires Burnaby, BC based Dick's Lumber
2007 - RONA acquires Nova Scotia based Castle Cash & Carry
Post Processing:
PhotoShop Elements 5: crop, balance, posterization, rough pastels, sandstone
Jan & There
I have so many lovely photos from this shoot, I think I'm going to put together a blog post with them.
Keep me company
You're like just anybody
My weakness, come for me
Oh, bad things into pleasure
One touch, set me free
Without you, incomplete
I'm here, patiently
Waitin' for you to rescue me..
LUXE PARIS: RONA GOWN
AT SWANK EVENT
MY BAGS: GROUP GIFT
Model: Fryda
More info, music and photos:
romantomas.blogspot.com/2021/09/877-im-in-love-with-fear....
Rona and I went into the city today, walking around, showing her the city I grew up in. Because Rona is well-known for her headless photos, I wanted to do something that was hers as well as mine. Here are her famous turquoise shoes.
I'm semi-retired. This is where I work a day or two per week. RONA is a Canadian competitor to Home Depot and Lowes (which opened its first Canadian stores last year).
RONA began in Quebec some sixty-odd years ago. Over the past decade or so, it has made some strategic aquisitions across Canada, and has built new box stores as well.
My particular store was originally part of The Building Box chain which was owned by Reno Dépot—also a Quebec-based company. For my British friends. Reno Dépot was a branch of Kingfisher which owns the B&Q chain. Reno Dépot was purchased by RONA about four years ago.
I work in the Seasonal Department, using experience I gained in our family business during the sixties and early seventies.
Have done a number of things since then, including teaching English and museum curating.
Again, I'm posting, but I don't expect people to comment. I'll be back up full-time next week some time.
North Rona Lighthouse way out in the Atlantic. Tucked in under the east side of North Rona out of the Atlantic Swell.
We go through the year with our feelings bundled up and our thoughts inside a diary. Little attention do we give to the changes that have come up, evolving day by day. And then the cold months of the year roll around, and we find ourselves curled up with a cup of tea on a rainy day, going through all that is left from what the year has been.
Photographs, words, memories.
The end of the year, for me, always tends to be a time during which my diary not only discloses what I have been up to recently, but more importantly what unfolds when I look back. Last November‘s sadness of connections that have come apart. The fear of leaving so many winters back that I don’t even find comfort in counting anymore.
Nostalgia is a way of looking back that doesn’t skip the negative, but doesn’t focus on it either. We think back to that one day when leaving was replaced by coming home, to feeling whole in a different place a year later, to coffees and forests and window views, and all we could grasp to make this one moment count.
Sometimes, the only thing that stays with us are the memories of what once has been. And sometimes, those memories are all we need.
(Thanks so much to Whitney for helping me to make this sound right)
Vom tschechischen Bildhauer Jaroslav Róna, neben der Spanischen Synagoge in Prag.
Made by the Czech sculptor Jaroslav Róna, beside the Spanish Synagoge in Prague.
Púbol es una entidad de población del municipio de La Pera, localizado en la comarca de Bajo Ampurdán, en la provincia de Girona.
Forma junto a Cadaqués y Figueras, el denominado "TRIANGULO DALINIANO" .
Olympus OM4, Ektachrome EB100, digitised by photographing the original 35mm slide on a light table using a 12mm extension tube; tethered capture and digital processing in Lightroom.
Ronas Hill is the highest in Shetland; it is a Ramsar site, having many rare arctic-alpine plants.
"Ronas Hill [...] has a distinctive red colour derived from its granite geology. [... The] gravelly granite surface features unusual alpine plant communities, which occur here at exceptionally low altitudes. The plateau falls away to the north, giving way to lochans and blanket bog. ." (www.shetland.gov.uk/downloads/file/1593/local-landscape-a..., accessed 2022.01.28)
Naomi came to Stuttgart to spend a few days at my house and we explored various viewpoints today. I really enjoy being able to look at my home through different eyes when having someone stay with me, and notice all the little things even more. I am also not coping very well with the thought of having to move out sometime soon, because I just love the place I have turned into home so much.
On a more positive note, it's lots of fun talking about the differences between English and German culture with Naomi, pointing out grammar mistakes and just spending our days together. She is really easy to be around and having her here is just a lovely break from daily life. :)