Welland Canal/ Sunday Bridges

Looking at the west side of the lift bridge at Lock 1 of the Welland Canal

The Welland Canal allows freighters to travel between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, bypassing Niagara Falls.

Looking southerly across the lift bridge

Notice all the lights telling motorists and pedestrians when it's safe to cross the bridge.

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Fishers/ Shadow Shot Sunday

Two generation of fishers, Keswick, Ontario

I was intrigued by how the boy's rod and part of the shadow were parallel. And I like the way the dad is gently helping his son.

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Texture/ My Town Shoot Out

Cattail fluff in soft light at sundown

This week's My Town Shoot Out Challenge: texture

Rough bark

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Tractor/ Sign, Signs

Cameron Welch Mgmt. Ltd.

The sign itself is not that great but I DID notice the tractor above the name of the company and what the company does and THEN I noticed the words on the sign. Sorry about the glare on the sign!

I am linking to Lesley at SIGNS, SIGNS.

O/ ABC Wednesday

Sepia makes this farm look OLD...

O is for OLD.

...and sepia plus this gas pump and vintage car make this garage look OLD...

...and here black & white makes this lake scene look OLD

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Red Barn/ Barn Charm

Blue skies over red barns south of Barrie, Ontario

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Hubba Hubba/Ruby Tuesday

Yesterday traveling in style down a main street in Port Perry

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Scilla/ Mosaic Monday

Siberian squill (Scilla siberica)

Scilla are blooming in my gardens today. Don't you love the beautiful shades of blue of their blossoms?

To see more mosaics, visit Mary at the Little Red House HERE

Concrete Arch/ Sunday Bridges

Flashback to the 1930s

There are several bridges over creeks near me that were built in this style, so I cannot remember exactly where I took this photo. Pity about the graffiti but, otherwise, the bridge shown here is in pretty good shape considering its close to 80-years old.

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Dangling/ Shadow Shots

Dangling in a window and casting shadows

I like how the glass is casting colourful shadows here.

Bird feeder in a window

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branch/ My Town Shoot Out

Remains of branch attached to overhead wires

This week's My Town Shoot Out Challenge: trees, leaves, branches

No leaves here yet, just buds, so branches are pretty bare. Not only do these branches have no leaves but also no buds, trunks.... But hey! They do have utility wires!

Another cut branch attached to overhead wires

Tree wind vane

And more branches... and their reflections

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Take Care/ Signs, Signs

Photographed inside a fresh fruit market

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Floating Barrels/ Mid-Week Blues

Blue barrels keep the boat docks afloat

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Mid-Week Blues

N/ ABC Wednesday

Niagara Apothecary, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario

For nearly a century starting in late 1860s, the Niagara Apothecary sold patent medicines and  "miracle cure-alls" for ailments such as tuberculosis and hair loss.  Seven years after the apothecary closed in 1964, the Ontario Heritage Trust acquired the  building, restored it and turned it into a museum.

The facade is Italianate: arched double doors and two show windows. The Sign of the Golden Mortar is an example of high-style commercial architecture during mid-Victorian times.

is Italianate

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Sunset/ Barn Charm

Sunset over barn, East Gwillimbury, Ontario

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Everything's Better/ Ruby Tuesday

Vintage Coca-Cola sign

Proof that Coca-Cola has been around for a while can be seen  at the small Ontario museum in Coldwater, Ontario.

I am linking to RUBY TUESDAY at Work of the Poet.

Birdhouse Art/ Mosaic Monday

Birdhouses outside the Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario

These birdhouses painted by kids decorate a space outside a Whitby art gallery.

To see more mosaics, visit Mary at the Little Red House HERE

Garden City Skyway/ Sunday Bridges

Karen Andrie (tug)Endeavor (barge) under the Garden City Skyway, St. Catherines, Ontario

Here the Garden City Skyway spans the Welland Canal, built high to accommodate freighters so the Queen Elizabeth Way doesn't require a lift bridge that would  hold up traffic.

The 42 kilometre (27 mile) Welland Canal bypasses Niagara Falls, allowing ships to travel between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

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Bloor Street/Shadow Shot Sunday

Shadows in a Bloor Street Window, Toronto, Ontario

Chic fashions and many shadows decorate a window on a major street in Toronto

Overview of the same window

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Road/ Photo Hunter

Traveling westerly at sunset

This week's Photo Hunter challenge is: ROAD.

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Temple/My Town Shoot Out

Sharon Temple in winter, East Gwillimbury, Ontario

Built between 1825 and 1832, the Sharon Temple is now a national historic site. It was constructed by a small sect or former Quakers who called themselves the Children of Peace who used this building once a month to collect money and items for local people living in poverty.

Sharon Temple in autumn, East Gwillimbury

After the sect's founder died in 1856, the group slowly diminished and the building began to fall apart. Fortunately in 1917, a local historical society decided to restore it and now, along with other buildings on this site, it's a museum.

It's also a National Peace Site. Because the temple boasts of amazing acoustics, classical music concerts are often held here, five this year on Sunday afternoons between May 29 and June 26.

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Welcome/Sign, Signs

Wanna eat here?

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Hard Hat/Mid-Week Blues

Blue hard hat

Look at the BLUE hard hat!

The Welland Canal, which allows commercial boats to travel between Lakes Erie and Ontario (bi-passing Niagara Falls), has been open for business this year since mid-March. Two boats went through the canal on the day my husband and I were there... and we just happened to be there at the right time. (Early April traffic on the canal is light.)

Workers on the tugboat/barge Karen Andrie/Endeavor

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 Mid-Week Blues

M/ABC Wednesday

MELTED

MOST of the ice is MELTED. YAY! Spring!

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Black as Coal/ Barn Charm

Black barns near Mount Forest, Ontario

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Fresh Air/Ruby Tuesday

Manure Spreader

Breathe in deeply and smell the sweet aroma of clean country air!

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Grimsby Beach/Mosaic Monday

Colourful board and batten cottages near Grimsby Beach, Ontario

Elaborate gingerbread trims these cottages built at the turn of the nineteenth century.  After the Second World War these cottages fell into disrepair but beginning in the 1990s many of the dilapidated cottages began to be renovated and painted in bright colours. Many of them are now lived in year round. Aren't they fun?

 The design over one front door

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Stained Glass/Shadow Shot Sunday

Glass bird and shadow

I think this bird might be a dove. What do you think?

Another glass bird and shadow in window

I'm pretty sure the second bird is supposed to be a hummingbird...but NOT the ruby-throated hummingbird that we see here from mid May through mid September.

If, like me, you are fascinated by shadows, visit Hey Harriet's SHADOW SHOTS