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Is There Life In France?

January 28, 2023 Carl Green Life

The Italian physicist Enrico Fermi (1901 – 1954) created the first nuclear reactor, worked on the Manhattan project, and is one of only 16 scientists in history to have an element named in his honour. It’s fair to say that he’s a big deal in […]

Clarence Street Bridge Port Colborne on the Welland Canal

Four Years Of Droning On

January 27, 2023 Carl Green Life, Photography

This week marks the fourth anniversary of flying a drone. Four years ago today I earned my pilot’s license and took to the skies legally and safely after completing testing and being issued with required legal paperwork. Fully licensed, registered, and trained, I have been […]

Industrial Evolution

January 22, 2023 Carl Green Images Of The Week, Life

The Image Of The Week (IOTW) comes from a recent trip to the Canadian Raptor Conservancy (great place, well worth a few visits) near Simcoe. Along the way I passed the old Stelco plant on Highway 3 near Nanticoke. I grew up in a mining […]

The Choice

December 28, 2022 Carl Green Life, Photography

I always try to look on the bright side of life. And not just because it’s a song by which to live your life, though I would argue it certainly is. Case in point: A few years ago, I passed this deer on one of […]

I Saw Three ships

December 25, 2022 Carl Green Design Guy, Life

This image, captured on Lake Ontario one wintery morning, reminded me of the old English Christmas carol, “I saw three ships come sailing by”. It seemed a fitting image to mark Christmas Day. Merry Christmas to those that celebrate it, and a happy holiday season […]

Merry Christmas

December 24, 2022 Carl Green Life

To those that celebrate it, Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings to those that don’t, or follow faiths too numerous to mention. As I write, blizzard conditions are sweeping across the continental U.S. and Canada. Here, we have power lines and trees down, our […]

IOTW: The Scow

December 16, 2022 Carl Green Life, Photography

In August 1918 a scow broke loose from the tug towing it along the Niagara river. It and the two men aboard became lodged in the rocks above Niagara Falls. It has been there now for over a century. Fast forward to October 2019. The […]

Floatfest 2023

December 11, 2022 Carl Green Life

Looking back through my images from this year, I reminisce about the annual Floatfest festival in Welland at the Rose City on the Welland Canal. Descending as we are into the cold dark winter months, my thoughts return to the days when throwing yourself into […]

Community

December 8, 2022 Carl Green Life

Today marked the return after 3 long years of the annual Community Living Christmas Dinner. Hosted (with thanks from us all) by the Friends Of Roselawn at the Roselawn Centre in Port Colborne, this sit-down event catered 70 happy diners, while, in a first for […]

Thankful

December 3, 2022 Carl Green Life

I’m a lucky guy. After a lifetime of knocks and scrapes I’ve still got my hair and most of my teeth. And a roof over my head, food in the fridge, and a wife that tolerates me. No complaints here. I went out exploring today […]