Steve`s Country
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Touring My Town, #6.
Hello once again everyone! Are you enjoying this beautiful Sunday? Muffin was enjoying her patch of sunshine, but then the clouds moved in so she decided to join me again. I was enjoying some time outside too, and should have stayed out there a little longer while the sun was still around. It is so nice out there and on the deck in the sun I didn’t even need to wear a jacket. Of course I was only out there about 15 minutes, the temp was 37F (3C) and no wind. It really did feel like spring out there.
Today I thought I would show you some of our older buildings. Actually, I guess I have showed some already, so I won’t bother showing those again. I like the older buildings, back to the late 1800s and early 1900s. They have so much more character to them even if they are just simply built. But they didn’t have our modern technology and yet managed to build these places to last more than a hundred years. That’s not so bad. As mentioned in my first post on this series, this is not a really old town. Though there was a small community here prior to 1880, it wasn’t until the Canadian Pacific Railway came through here in 1882 that the town really started to grow.
Above is our train station, built in 1899, this pic from early 1900s.
And here it is today, we no longer have passenger rail service so the building is mostly office space and storage.
Above is main street around 1900, followed by main street in the 1940s and then main street today, just for a look at the changes along the way.
This last pic is from early morning before there is much traffic around.
Another nice building from 1897 built from solid granite stone from a local quarry. There are more old buildings, including some nice old houses that perhaps I will show in the future. I hope you are enjoying this little tour of my town and there is more I want to share with you next time. Until then, I hope you have a wonderful week and God bless!
Steve and Muffin. (Don’t forget, chapter 18 of 20/20 Investigations, Inc. comes out tomorrow)
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
Daily Pics 2020, #61.
Good morning everyone and Happy Sunday to all of you! It is a nice mild morning here and should get into some melting weather today which is so nice indeed! But we are supposed to get a little snow with that too, though not much, I hope. But now that March is here it is starting to feel like winter is getting close to leaving us, even though last year it stayed around until the end of April. And the long range forecast is for a colder than normal spring. But I’m not listening to the forecast, Muffin said it’s going to be an early spring and that’s good enough for me. Thinking spring reminds me of bright flowers and birds returning from the south.
So let’s have a mix of both today…
Not sure what this flower from Italy is called, but this little insect is enjoying it anyway.
A bit more late spring and everyone’s favorite flower to hate, a dandelion gone to seed, which really is beautiful in it’s own right.
One of our earliest birds to return in the spring is the mallard duck, this one is the male.
And this is the female mallard. Spring is a beautiful time of year, but we must wait a while yet before it arrives and stays with us. But it’s nice to dream about it and anticipate it’s wonders. I hope you have a most wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
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