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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.
This is the view we were rewarded with after climbing to the viewpoint "Glinzgieck" (1445m), about 200 metres in altitude above Alpe Rona in the Austrian Alps. The city of Bludenz is visible in the valley.
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.
pattern ; RONA
/ RYC CLASSIC WEEKEND (book 8)
size ; S (86cm)
yarn ; 16 strands of (merino??) wool
/ DIAMANTE 2/52 made in italy
/ 350g
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
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.
My roleplaytime 2020-2021 in working as a Deputy in Colorado. Serving under the awesome Sheriff Cara Oliviery. Sergeant Ronas aside from his patrol tasks ready to take on the newly formed Department of Human Resources.
Madeira
10.11.22
Lighthouse on the island of madeira
Voigtlander VM 21mm f/1.8 Ultron
instagram: www.instagram.com/roman_serhiichuk/
500px: 500px.com/roma-rona
Con el golem
Monumento a Franz Kafka
Praga, República Checa
Estatua Memorial a Franz Kafka, el prestigioso escritor checo, que ha sido realizada por el escultor, también checho, Jaroslav Rona.
En bronce, de 3,75 metros de altura y 800 kilos de peso, fué terminada por Jaroslav Rona en diciembre de 2003, tras haber sido el ganador de un concurso entre los más prestigiosos artistas checos para realizar la obra.
La estatua está situada en un lugar emblemático de la ciudad de Praga (entre la Iglesia de Praga del EspÃritu Santo y la Sinagoga Española), en el lÃmite entre los distritos del Barrio JudÃo Josefov y la Ciudad Vieja Stare Mesto, punto en el que convergen tres religiones, la judÃa, la católica y la protestante, lugar donde residió Kafka.
With the golem
Monument to Franz Kafka
Prague, Czech Republic
Memorial statue to Franz Kafka, the prestigious Czech writer, which has been realized by the sculptor, also checho, Jaroslav Rona.
In bronze, 3.75 meters high and 800 kilos in weight, it was finished by Jaroslav Rona in December 2003, having been the winner of a competition among the most prestigious Czech artists to carry out the work.
The statue is located in an emblematic place of the city of Prague (between the Church of Prague of the Holy Spirit and the Spanish Synagogue), in the border between the districts of the Jewish District Josefov and the Old Town Stare Mesto, point in which converge three religions, Jewish, Catholic and Protestant, where Kafka resided.
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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)
The Quiraing and Staffin, Isle of Skye.
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The northern ends of both Rona (with lighthouse) and Skye, from the coast road around the Applecross peninsula.
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" .
Sept' 2013
Rain clouds over Rona.
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