Showing posts with label Morgan Plus 4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morgan Plus 4. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

New people, an important part of town

Shot with my Canon PowerShot S90. An excellent little camera.

I've run Fiona before, and I'll probably run her again. Allow me to explain why.

Bloggers who post daily photos from cities and towns around the world often show urban sites --- or should I say sights? I find the images of cityscapes from around the globe very interesting. Often the pictures show new buildings of which the blogger is extremely proud. But cities enjoy more than just a constant stream of new buildings; They enjoy a constant stream of new people.

Fiona belongs to the London stream. She is a new resident of Southwestern Ontario. As young as she is, she is most certainly not the the newest resident. This stream of people is large and fast moving. Of course, Fiona is still moving through headwater territory; Me, her grandfather, I'm moving rather quickly to the end of this river.

Fiona may be only a little more than eight months old but she has quite the sense of humour. She loves to giggle with the baby in the hallway mirror. Once, while I was holding her, she grasped the mirror on the our antique umbrella stand and pulled herself forward in order to peek behind the mirror. Discovering that there was no one there, she looked back at me with a puzzled expression.

The baby in the framed photo looks a lot like the baby in the mirror, except this tyke doesn't move. This baby is frozen in time and trapped immobile in a frame. Fiona can hold this picture in her two hands and rotate it and turn it and whenever she glances the actual image, the baby is always there.

For Fiona the picture is a constant delight. I hope today's picture is a delight for you.

À bientôt!

And now I must say, "À bientôt!" In a little more than a week, my wife and I are heading off for a 40 day adventure. We're driving across the United States and Canada in my aging Morgan. The car and I got old together. It is question which one of us will break down first.

I have bought a Canon PowerShot S90 and a Fuji HS10, complete with spare batteries, for documenting our trip and I am bringing a Dell Studio XPS with an SSD drive for filing the occasional story from the road. And I finally got a cell phone and a GPS.

My daughter, her husband and Fiona are keeping the home fires burning, the lawn cut and weeds pulled, by living in our home while we are gone. This is wonderful. Fiona will think of our home as her home and she will be even more comfortable when visiting us in the future.

I'll be filing stories and pictures to Rockinon: Travel when I get the opportunity.

Hope to see you all back here sometime in July,
Cheers,
Rockinon (Ken Wightman)

Some of my favourite pictures from London Daily Photo.

Northern Walking Stick
Evening Mist
Captain Rex --- possibly my most frequently hit image. Even Lucusfilm in California has visited.
London Lobster --- this is another frequently hit picture. I shot this right at the dinner table.
A Drop of Rain

I hope you had some favourites, too. Cheers!

Monday, August 17, 2009

Another Morgan morning

A little camera with a wide angle lens, a warm sun burning off the morning mist, and a Morgan booting it down 402 towards 401 and you have a picture. The Morgan has enjoyed the roads around London this summer. The cool weather has made the old car comfortable; why, it's just like being back home. Hey, the town is London and the river running through town is the Thames. My, the lengths to which these Canadians will go to make an old car feel welcome.

Monday, May 25, 2009

Good Morning Sun

Sunrise finds highway 401 at London still night-quiet. But 401, running 820 km from Windsor to the Quebec border, is one of the busiest highways in the world. In fact, the section running above Toronto is the busiest freeway in North America. London's location on 401 is a big plus for the southwestern Ontario city as it competes with other communities for business and industry. You see, over half the population of Canada lives along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor and 401 is the corridor's major roadway.

The picture is the view from the driver's seat of a Morgan Plus 4 roadster. For a take on Morgan motoring see: A Morgan in the Morning - or see a short Morgan video or slide show from Morgans Over America IV when about 45 Morgans from all over the world toured North America.