It's picture time.

It's hard to believe that I have reached 50 posts and had more than a 1000 views to this little blog. Although I am convinced that 950 of those views are from me constantly coming back to fix spelling and grammatical errors. These are some of the pics I have taken over the last little while so I thought I would share them with you.





These first two photos are of a recent sunset. For some reason I am not usually awake at the time of day that would allow one to see many sunrises.



This photo when I had the dog out for a walk on the waterfront trail. Looking down the embankment I saw a gaggle of geese floating by. Here is the educational part of the blog. When geese are on the ground or in the water, they are a gaggle. If they are in the air, then they are a wedge or a skein. That's what Wikipedia says.




A little farther down the trail I happened to catch sight of a father and his children out for a canoe ride following the geese apparently.



Looking out over the lake to the east, there are other people out enjoying the waterfront trail. Click on the pic to see more detail.



On the little patch of shoreline where I normally take Angel swimming someone had built a makeshift inukshuk with some of the rocks that were there. However, it has been knocked over since I took the picture. If you are wondering what an inukshuk is, here is the explanation from thecanadianencyclopedia.com

Inukshuk (singular), meaning "likeness of a person" in Inuktitut (the Inuit language) is a stone figure made by the Inuit. The plural is inuksuit. The Inuit make inuksuit in different forms and for different purposes: to show directions to travellers, to warn of impending danger, to mark a place of respect, or to act as helpers in the hunting of caribou. Similar stone figures were made all over the world in ancient times, but the Arctic is one of the few places where they still stand. An inukshuk can be small or large, a single rock, several rocks balanced on each other, round boulders or flat. Inuit tradition forbids the destruction of inuksuit.

Inukshuk in the form of human beings, called inunnguaq, seem to have been a recent development, perhaps only appearing after the arrival of European whalers in the 19th century. One of the most important types of inuksuit are those that helped in the caribou hunt. These are usually built with 2 or 3 rocks piled up and placed in converging lines along the migration route of the herd. The Inuit placed arctic heather among the rocks to simulate human hair. The figures were intended to spook the caribou and stampede them towards the places where the hunters hid.

An open leg on an inukshuk found near water or a coastline may point to an open channel for navigation. If an inukshuk is in open land, a leg or arm might suggest a direction. Inuksuit placed near a lake might show that fish can be found in the lake at the same distance the figure is placed from the shoreline. Some inuksuit were built out of respect for a beloved person and are seen as memorials.

James Marsh

Here are several photos of a certain hyperactive puppydog playing in the water.




Depending on which way I walk home, I often have to cross the dual tracks of the Canadian National Railroad at an umarked crossing. I assume there used to be a road that went through there but that was long before my time. So here are views of both eastbound and westbound. And I would not have stuck around if I thought there was a train nearby.



And as we made our way home to look at all the cars at a nearby Chrysler dealership, I glanced over and saw this twisted hunk of metal. Hard to believe that signpost is still standing after taking some abuse but there it is marking a bus stop in front of a seniors residence. Hope you enjoyed the little tour.