Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Daily Pics 2020, #62.
Good morning everyone! Happy Monday as well! Yes, that’s right, the guy that likes Monday is back again. And with me is some nice sunny summer flowers for us to enjoy. Today we will be back with some wildflowers for your enjoyment. I keep mixing things up now with our daily pics just for some variety of different nature pictures, because really, everything in nature is beautiful in it’s own way. At least, I think so anyway. I hope you have been able to begin your day with a nice smile. But don’t just stop there, carry that smile with you all day long. And don’t forget, Coffee With Steve arrives again today, so bring your smile and join us for a nice cup of coffee or tea and we’ll have a great time.
But first, let’s take a look at these sunny flowers to help give a boost for the day…
I know I have used these flowers before, not sure if it was this picture though, I have so many pics of these. But they are so beautiful I thought it was a good time to share them again with all of you. These are called “spreading dogbane”.
And here is one I haven’t used before, called “gill-over-the-ground” or sometimes also called “ground ivy”. A lot of people don’t like them since they can get into lawns where people would rather have grass than flowers. So they are generally called weeds. But quite pretty anyway.
Well, there we have our sunny flowers for today, please join us later for coffee, and don’t forget, 20/20 Investigations, Inc also comes out today. Have a wonderful Monday and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
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.
