Tag: Kingston

Was Wharf

The inner harbour area was the scene of greater waterside development in the past. Above, a row of spikes are pretty much all that is left of an old wharf. Below, the last mill, now a restaurant and shops complex, still a tad darkish but Satanically sanitized.

Mirage

This is another picture that begs me to buy a proper zoom lens digital camera. Living by the big lake you see some odd mirages. Sometimes you can see the hills of Pennsylvania floating above the pale horison, sometimes the edge of the sky looks like a saw from the image of the far off deep lake swells. Tonight coming home it was like the far side of the lake was lifted high in a ridge, rising above the tree line of Simcoe Island. The red line is the real horizon as if that is any help.

The view across the lake was clear as today’s WWTI-TV doppler radar from New York shows – Kingston is under the 401 sign and the view of the photo above is to the SSW:

St. Paul’s Anglican

I’ve been focusing on the pubs lately but we have some great churches in Kingston. St. Paul’s at 137 Queen Street was built from 1845 to 1846 and when I have more time on a sunny lunch I’ll add some detail shots. There may be burials in the churchyard from as early as 1791. Molly Brant was buried there in 1796. You wouldn’t know it if you walked through this view, given the four lanes of Queen Street, but take away the asphalt, cars and wires and everything in this view was there in 1890 and much was there in 1850.

Ontario Bank

The facade of the Ontario Bank on the corner of King and Clarence has been released from its scaffolding and is showing off a snazzy strip of copper. I have to get a better detail of the sign over the door as it is full of leaves and vines and fairly jazzy skewed lettering.

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Later: I view this web site at 1024 x 768 pixles. I like the space that gives. I also usually provide for 20 pixels of space on each side of a photo and am posting width at about 550 or 600 pixels. Whatdya think?

Water View

Took a trip on the Wolfe Island Ferry (which is a very fine ferry) and got this view of the face of Royal Military College, Fort Henry and the Cedar Island Martello. Here are a couple of other posts on the martellos and the harbour defences.


The vista – too tiny to really see anything


Detail of the Cedar Island martello, unspruced, south of Fort Henry (green above)


Detail of Fort Henry (blue above)


Detail of Royal Military College behind Point Frederick martello, north of Fort Henry (red above)