Purple sprinkles

Off topic

I have maintained this blog now for just over four years. Uploaded 522 posts. Received 20,255 page views*.

My intention has been to always upload fresh photos (taken the same day or at least less than 48 hours with only a few exceptions). And my objective has been to provide:

Observations of the trivial and unnoticed, and a photograph as a second look.

It occurs to me that there have been times that I have not been true to that objective. Posting photos of zoo animals and vacation snaps is not really "trivial and unnoticed" stuff, but I do capture what catches my eye and I find interesting... and I try to avoid the obvious.

So maybe I have not been too untrue.

I appreciate the comments I have received over the years. It is not my general policy to respond to posts, but that does not mean I do not value them. I have always maintained that this blog is for me; as a incentive to make pictures, and force me to do a little writing (in most cases very little writing).

And so I continue... now into the fifth year, sticking my neck out, and pressing on.

*Some of those visits were apparently auto generated by an evil computer in Russia, but then again Google did not count my page views during the first year.

Old Fort Niagara

This is the last in my series of images from Niagara-on-the-Lake. And it contains the same element as the first picture of the series, Old Fort Niagara, across the river and back in the good old United States of America. Land of the free and home to the brave, not to mention the descendants of those who attached the British colony of Canada.

Garden

Walkway

Niagara-on-the-Lake takes full advantage of the lakefront... something I think my hometown could do a little better.

Morning dew

I believe it is more than dew... it is likely fortified by early morning watering.

Niagara-on-the-Lake is flower and garden obsessed, with overflowing plants and blossoms wherever you look. It is really quite spectacular in the summer months.

Waiting

Cuteness is a cheap trick, but how could anyone resist?

Waters edge

Not sure if this is the river bank or the lake shore. Niagara River on the right, Lake Ontario on the left. Guess it really doesn't matter... it is the waters edge.