An appropriately wintry scene.
Appropriately wintry.
An appropriately wintry scene.
Tag: goderich
Clan
A clan of what are commonly called Inukshuk watch over the beach at Goderich.
I did a little research. It seems, according to The Canadian Encyclopedia, that each individual construction in this photo is more properly called inunnguaq – ‘in the likeness of a human’ – because it mimics human form, whereas the term inukshuk or inuksuk refers to ‘a figure made of piled stones or boulders constructed to communicate with humans throughout the Arctic’.
This construction has occurred almost spontaneously. You might call it ‘spontaneous construction’.
Bright day
The afternoon was far less austere than this image of Goderich Harbour, with an icy Lake Huron in the background, suggests.
Lighthouse, Goderich
We drive to Goderich today. Among other sights I admired the lighthouse from the beach, an angle I have rarely thought of. The tree’s round, soft, monochromatic shape is an interesting counterpoint to the lighthouses’ right angles and the red of the lantern house.
Another Snowy owl
We were in the Goderich area yesterday. It was a glorious day. Driving a back road we startled this owl off the roadside onto a hydro pole. Faye got out and took a number of photos. It is still so surprising that a bird which must be unaccustomed to humans and cars tolerated our presence for 10 or 15 minutes. Faye cropped and zoomed the original image and this is the result. Yes, it’s looking directly at the camera.
Full credit to Faye for having the eye, the patience to capture the original image as well as coming up with this great image.
Some birders never see this magnificent animal and I’ve seen two in two weeks. How remarkable, how fortunate I am.
B-25 Mitchell at Goderich
This B-25 was completed and returned by Sky Harbour Aircraft the same day as the Mallard. No way could anyone get this close to the ramp at a larger airport.
A beautiful restoration.
Nose art was a distinguishing characteristic of many, many US aircraft in World War II. This is one of the less racy examples I have seen.
Engines started and warming up.
Seabird
No, obviously not a feathered one!
A neat thing about living in Goderich and being an airplane buff was Sky Harbour Aircraft, an airplane restoration business. Sky Harbour restored quite a few aircraft – warbirds, small business jets, airline-size jets (once I saw a 737 in private livery) before going out of business in. This Grumman Mallard (I think) amphibian had been completed and being returned to its owner. The flight crew took it for a demonstration or acceptance flight. In the process they buzzed the airport
and in this photo the plane was perhaps, oh, 35 feet off the ground.
Transport Canada would not have been at all pleased had they learned of this little show. It was an impressive (and a little scary) bit of flying.
For laughs
When I emailed friends in Texas about our first snowfall in Goderich, I included this photo of how such a foreign experience affected me – curled into the fetal position, thumb in mouth. My friends were amused, replying ‘Yeah right.’
They were right.
It’s not that bad now
I took this photo in December 2007, my first winter in Canada after relocating from Texas. We lived in Goderich at the time, which Ontarians will recognize as being in the snow belt. And boy, did it snow that December. There was a week during which Faye and I shovelled the driveway and sidewalk daily, ant not only to have something to do. Sometimes we shovelled twice daily. THAT was quite an introduction to winter, which I so contended I wanted to live in, to experience.
Shades of blue
No, we have not been buried under a wall of snow. This is a three year old photo from the Goderich area, a part of the world which can be buried under a wall of snow.
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