Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

This is just too cool. If you have one of these Canon cameras, and ever do more than just point-and-shoot, you’ll want to get this free enhancement. My 6 year old Canon is too old, but I may be replacing it this year… most certainly with one of these models.

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Hat tip to Photojojo

Rural History has a blog in Saskatchewan. There are good photos and quotes of famous people, around the site.

Check out the upcoming Gardiner debate with the KKK re-enactment. It’s taking place in Lemberg later this Summer.

-Regina at sunset

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Meanwhile, it’s getting harder to photograph trains. I don’t think walking down tracks should be encouraged, and probably should be discouraged, yet there are many places where it’s not any more dangerous to cross than at a street. A huge stretch of track in downtown Yorkton isn’t fenced off, because it makes no sense to walk about 3 blocks in either direction to cross the tracks to the residential homes just to the south. If they hand out any tickets there, there will be many fuming people. My hunch is this is at least as much an attempt at cracking down on vandals, and drifters, as it is for safety. CN police had better use discretion when handing out fines, or this will be a PR disaster for the rail company.

This may be of interest to other SaskBloggers. I made some entries on Saturday. I’ll have to watch for them if voting comes up, should one of mine be selected.

Some amusing photos sent my way by another blogger. Further Ignatief goodness.

-Dion looks way too happy about that beer.

-Almost this happy looking

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This is some further good silliness with photos.

Another “old friend” has turned to ashes. I never got a chance to see the elevator that burned.

I did however witness one burning in Wood Mountain just about eleven years ago. The heat (even with it nearly grain-empty) was so intense that you could feel it from a block away. It was struck by lightning, twice within minutes of each other. I was listening to an audio tape, and the paper flickered and actually damaged the tape in that spot. There was nothing the fire department could do to get equipment up to the fire in the roof, so they set up a perimeter, and saved a house with burning debris falling onto it.

I borrowed a video camera from a neighbour in town, and the resulting video ended up as a clip on the CKCK News the next day.

Still with us, unlike the one that burned:

-The oldest around, in Fleming, SK.

ADDED:
Foam Lake had a fire not too long ago.

- The Pioneer orange part is gone now.

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TACKED ON STORY:
MRI and clinic update for First Nation.

-Aylesbury at sunset

Check out why Chamberlain isn’t twinned. The railroad is on one side of the town, and a huge river valley on the other. There’s no way to work around it. Keep the highway at 50km/h and make it a change of pace for the weary highway driver on a nearly 3 hour drive between the two major cities of Saskatchewan.

- Sturdy Stone Center

- This truck’s driver gave me a look because I had both hands with camera out of the sunroof, on a right-hand drive car. Good for a double take anyway.

- Huffb1, Artemis, Saskboy, and Jadon starting at front left and working clockwise.

-The XO in front of a Park Cafe photograph on the wall

I had another close call with a four legged Bambi today. After noticing a loner antelope on the way into Saskatoon the other day, it made no attempt to cross the highway in front of my car; it was never a danger. But coming home in the dark tonight from Saskatoon, I had a close encounter, of the four legged kind. I saw a flash of fast moving fur hurtling into the ditch from a field, on a collision course with my car, and another car was quickly coming up behind me to pass. Fortunately it was a divided highway, and the car behind me didn’t smack into me from behind when I braked sharply, as I laid on the horn. The deer threw on its brakes too, it’s legs looking almost parallel to the ground at the mid-point of the ditch, and it avoided the looming fight with my fender as it took off in the opposite direction.

It can be very important to avoid collisions with animals.

That was the end of my excitement (and hopefully the deer’s too) for the ride home. I had a new Bon Jovi CD to listen to, and got part way through, because the new Saskatoon radio stations were interesting to listen to. Rawlco has a new one called Wired (I think) and Hot 93 is now The Bull 92.9. Rock 102 was surprisingly good while I was there as well, and there was an oldies station, and 95.1 too. I never even bothered with the AM stations.

I finished watching “Splash” [5/10] the other night, and wasn’t too impressed. It had a very weak ending. And a weak middle.

-Chamberlain’s church for sale

I really like the Photojojo email list. They usually have really interesting photo projects or gadgets in their issues. Like this secret lives of benches idea. Brilliant, simple, and funny.