Steve`s Country
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Touring My Town, #5.
Hi everyone and welcome back to another look at my town. The pictures today are from the beginning of winter when there was only a tiny bit of snow on the ground. Today we will look at a few general pics of the town from different angles showing that we are fairly modern around here even though we are kind of an isolated town. Kind of funny calling this an isolated town and yet we are located on the Trans Canada Highway. That’s the only highway going east to west and coast to coast in this large country of ours. But still, we are in the far northern part of our province, even though this province goes much farther north than this town. And people live up there too. Maybe I will talk more of the isolated part another time. Meanwhile, let’s take a look at some more pics of my town.
In the above photo we are looking north along our main street and the photo just below we are looking south on main street.
The next street over, in the photo below, we find at the corner a small restaurant called the Hungry Pug Cafe.
And, above, we have one of our senior citizens apartment buildings. There is another one, the same size, just to the left of this one. Both are scenically located next to the railroad yards.
Also next to the apartments is this wire enclosed walkway over the railroad yards for a safer crossing for residents on the north side of the tracks.
And here is a picture of Ye Olde Chip Truck, in business since 1957 and located at this spot since then. The fries here are world famous and really are amazingly good. I’m sure I could eat these every day. Unfortunately it is located far from where I live. Sigh. Oh well, can’t have everything.😂😹
There is still more to show yet but that will have to wait for our next look in this series which will be next week. I hope you are enjoying this tour of my town and that you will continue to join me each week as we look at more of this quiet (?) little town. Until then, enjoy your day/evening and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
Nature’s Art…#18.
Hello everyone on another very cold day here at Steve’s Country. It seems that Muffin gets more energy on these cold days and really flies around the apartment. She will toss her toys high and pounce on them as they hit the floor. Then she runs wild as she tosses the toy ahead of her. She even manages to get me down on the floor playing with her. She will keep this up until she finally makes it to her “cave” to cool down for a while. Then she comes out and sits watching the birds before having her morning nap. Here it is, almost mid February, and we are having all this cold weather. Still, it’s not really so unusual, although February is not normally a very cold month. Normally…but there are exceptions. Another good day for staying indoors and drinking lots of coffee!😃☕☕
And a good time to enjoy more of that summer art in nature…
The same kind of mushroom as before, but a better picture of it. Really does look like some alien type of plant.
And here we have another weird looking mushroom, large and thick stemmed. All that I found were oddly shaped like this one. The top is about 4 inches (10cm) across.
I hope you are enjoying these mushrooms which really are a cool type of art in nature. I just wish they were easier to identify. I did recently identify one that is highly poisonous, shouldn’t even touch it. Too late on that one, I’m always touching mushrooms. Touching isn’t much of a problem generally as long as a person washes before touching anything else, like food. I hope you have a wonderful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
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