submerged

in a snowy grave

at Grindstone Creek

for Watery Wednesday

resting

with room for more

The four sides of this free standing columbarium have etched designs depicting sights from Hamilton. This side shows Gore Park fountain. The Vargyas can still visit their final resting place.
for Taphophile Tragics

pondering

the next move

at Grindstone Creek

bas relief

Board of Education Building

at 100 Main Street

tryptic #3

bas relief

Board of Education Building

at 100 Main Street

tryptic #2

bas relief

Board of Education Building

at 100 Main Street

tryptic #1 

covering

the drains

at RBG

Great Falls

at Smokey Hollow

for a Watery Wednesday

celtic cross

and knots

Knotwork's meaning defies literal translation and the symbolism is obscure. The repeated crossings of the physical and the spiritual are expressed in the interlace of the knots. It could be the never ending path of the strand represents the permanence and the continuum of life, love and faith. (source)

for Taphophile Tragics

recycled

xmas trees

at Grindstone Creek

helping restore the wetlands

bright

winter sky

at Dundurn Castle

swimming

between

a rock and a hard place

mystery

building

at Dundurn Castle

for a SkyWatchFriday

indignity

to the old theatre

on Ottawa Street

winter

should look like this

at Webster's Falls

 for a Watery Wednesday

standing tall

looking out

over the escarpment

at the Hamilton Cemetery
for Taphophile Tragics

faces

of art

in the Royal Botanical Gardens

partially hidden

down by the 

railway tracks

City Hall

sculpture

outside

the Board of Education Building

boarded up

Westinghouse

on Sanford Avenue

Webster's Falls

a short walk from last week's Tew's Falls

for a Watery Wednesday

decorated

gravesite

for Christmas

after some careful moving of the wreath,

the solitary name Dandie could be seen

for Taphophile Tragics

broken window

at McMaster University

Engineering Technology Building

walking

the dog

on the lighthouse pier

seven

swans a swimming

in a still unfrozen Burlington Bay

Federal Building

on James St North

fire

in the sky

at Dofasco, now owned by Acelor Mittel

Tews Falls

falling in

a ribbon of 41 metres

for a Watery Wednesday

USCT

A United States Colored Troop Civil War vet

Nelson Stevens 1832-1890

Originally in an unmarked grave, Nelson Stevens was born in Virginia as a slave but was already in Hamilton at the time of the Civil War. He must have arrived in Canada by underground railway to escape slavery and crossed back to the US, to Buffalo, in 1865 to sign up to fight for the North. The Washington Veteran's Dept arranged for a stone to be made and was sent to the Hamilton Cemetery.

Photo includes members of US Veterans and Civil War re-enactors.
for Taphophiles Tragics

gaslight

in the basement kitchen

at Dundurn Castle

for Theme Day of favourite shot of 2011, this is one I am most pleased to have accomplished
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