Wendy and I and both of our children were born here in London. Although I moved away in first grade to North Bay and then through high school and college in Toronto, I ended up back here in 1968. Here I met Wendy, married and after a few moves ended up here in our present house. The pictures I post here are all from around our home and our home town, London, Ontario.
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| "Big Clematis" |
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| "Orange Day-Lily" |
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| "Orange Day-Lily II" |
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| "Annual Fleabane" |
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| "Hardy Geranium" |
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| The Waubaushene Ferns |
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| Creativity Pool Red |
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| Creativity Pool Green |
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| Dogwood Blossom |
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| Dog Days Of Spring |
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| Grass |
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| The Garden Path |
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| Lone Telegraph Pole |
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| Hobo's Camp |
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| "Easterly end of the CNR Bridge in Greenway Park" |
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"Summer's Over - House For Rent"
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"Indian Polkweed"
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"Looking A Bit Like Fall"
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"Purple Aster"
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"White Heath Aster"
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"Sundrop, Evening Primrose"
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"White Aster"
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"Summer Is Fading - House For Rent"
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"Look Up, Way Way Up"
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"It's a Match"
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| "Holy Petunia Batman!" |
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| "Japanese Beetles" |
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| "Birdhouse Exit" |
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| "How Cute Is That?" |
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| "Time To Cut The Lawn" |
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| "Hope" |
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| "The Waubaushene Ferns" |
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| "Our Paw Paw Tree" |
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| "The Professor's Cat, Oscar" August 2019 |
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| "Pagoda Dogwood" |
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| "Flowers from Costco" |
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| "Cherokee Brave Dogwood at Back Window" |
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| "Pots" |
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| "Daylilies Have Their Day" |
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| "Daylilies" |
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| "Ready to Burst" |
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| "A Couple Ducks" |
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| "Winter Splendor In Our Own Back Yard" |
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| "Doing It The Old Way" |
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| "Catnabber? 2015" |
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| "Fall Golf 2018" |
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| "Fall Splendour" |
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| "Love Your Potted Mum" |
I just had to snap a few pictures of the morning sun catching the water and a silhouette of our neighbour with her dog.
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| "Yucca" |
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| "Little Guest House or Little House Guest?" Your choice! (Woodland Cemetery) |
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| "Look out below!" |
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| "Old and New, London" |
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| "Get Real!" |
Please come over for a swim some hot summer day!
I keep the water at 30 C (over 80 F) for maximum enjoyment of the salt pool.
Inside or out, the pool is the focal point of the back yard with the golf course in the distance.
Ducks occasionally visit for a swim.
Abundant sunshine but also lots of shady places to enjoy the summer outdoors.
View from the golf course.
View of the golf course.
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| "Hot" |
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| "Fu Means Good Luck" |
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| "The Coves" London |
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| "Carroll's" |
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| "Retired" |
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| "Retired II" |
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| "Wintery Hotel Metro, London, Ontario" |
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| "Falafel and a Coffee" |
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| "Covent Garden Market Building, London" |
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| "The Aeolian Hall on Dundas Street" |
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| "A Price Freeze?" |
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| "A Snow Day 1982" |
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| POST CARD "Looking Up Richmond" Inspired by a 1900's Post Card. |
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| "Helpin' Leroy Fish" Inspired by an 1890 black and white Stereograph. Blackfriars Bridge beyond the dam. |
The Ferguson residence; a prominent house in old south London, 141 Wortley Road dates back to the 1800's.
"Costs No More Than The Ordinary Kind"
Supertest Petroleum was an oil and gas company in Canada that operated from 1923 to 1973. Its head office was in London, Ontario. It marketed itself as "Canada's All-Canadian Company", and was acquired by BP Canada in 1971
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| "Above the Sun" |
I happened by at just the right instant on this misty morning to capture a tree surgeon at work.
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| "All Aboard!" |
The Grand Trunk Railroad Station was on York Street in London where the present CNR/VIA station is located. Inspired by an early 20th Century post card.
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| POST CARD "Foot of Dundas" |
Entitled "Foot of Dundas" this work shows the old jail in the background and a steam launch at the "forks of the Thames" landing. The blockhouse-like buildings that have the people in front of them housed, I believe, pumping equipment for the city water system. This work was inspired by an early 1900's post card (pre-1923) and therefore the original image is free of copyrights. My version however is copyright 2012.
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"It's a Match"
