The Odd Stop Antique Store, Chesterville, Ontario

Fun antique and curio shop in Winchester, Ontario 

Yashica 24 twin lens on shelf! It take 220 film, no longer made, but it can be adapted to 120.

613-986-2589 

theoddstopl@gmail.com 

The Odd Stop

501 St. Lawrence Street,

Winchester, ON.

KOC 2K0

Mr and Mrs Claus, Winchester, Ontario, November 16, 2024

 Mr and Mrs Claus, Winchester, Ontario, November 16, 2024

Snow Geese Migrating near Chesterville, Ontario

Snow geese migrating near Winchester, Ontario, Gravel quarry near intersection Ball Road and Highway 43, 45.096202, -75.280129, November 16, 2024, Anser caerulescens, Oie des neiges,

Geese summer in Northern North America and migrate south to Southern USA in Fall.

 

Sunset behind Boston Pizza

The transformers behind Boston Pizza. Often has spectacular sunsets.

 

Cash the dog gets his own toy

In a Winners store. Wreath is a dog chew toy.

 

Say hello to my dead little friend

Blacklegged (deer) tick, male adult, tique à pattes noire, Ixodes scapularis. 

I pulled it off my stomach thinking it was a skin tag - it was still wiggling! 

These can carry Lyme disease so I went to the pharmacy just in case - pharmacists in Ontario

can prescribe some medicines without having to see a doctor.  I was the fifth person who had been bitten by a tick that day! It has been warm this fall. 2x 100mg Doxycycline. taken at once, no dairy to be eaten 1 hour before or after. The tick had been on for perhaps 24 hours, so that's why I went. I think Krystal the cat brought it in on her fur.

Monitoring for any symptoms like fever, joint pain or the characteristic 'bullseye' rash around the bite.

Edit - 24 hrs later: bit of an upset stomach, rash around bite shrinking (good)

HMCS Harry DeWolf (AOPV 430)

 Warships are a rare sight on the St. Lawrence as the treaties that ended the War of 1812 limited the number of them that can be in the Great Lakes, and even Coast Guard vessels have limits on the weapons they can carry.

HMCS Harry DeWolf is a patrol vessel commissioned in 2021 and built for Arctic Ocean duty.

HMCS Harry DeWolf (AOPV 430), entering Lake St. Francis, descending the St. Lawrence River, November 6, 2024, near Renshaw Island

Moonset, November 5, 2024

 

Halloween 2024

Bridge of pumpkins, Martintown

Inside Martintown Mill

House in Cornwall, Ontario with huge inflatable pumpkin

 

Fall Colours, 2024

Charlottenburg Park entrance

St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church

Labyrinth, 

St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, 

20788 S Service Rd, 

South Lancaster, 

ON K0C 2C0

Cariboo Cameron House, Summerstown, Ontario

St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church

 

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, October 19, 2024

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, October 19, 2024. I just use a tripod and take a few frames just to find it - it is not visible to the naked eye now.

 

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, October 17 and 18, 2024

Oct 17

Oct 18

 

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, October 16, 2024

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), October 16, 2024, full moon made it difficult to see with naked eye - long exposures. Two days earlier I could just see it with my eyes.  Canon T6i, 50mm lens. ISO 200, 8s f/1.8,

 

Aurora 11 October, 2024

near Cornwall, Ontario - there were pulses of light moving through the aurora like they were silk clothes being illuminated.

Spot the spooky skull

 

Shelf Mushrooms

 

Shelf fungus, Glengarry Campground, Lancaster, Ontario

All a clone

There was a time when cars came in different colours and didn't all look alike. Winners parking lot. Four lookalike SUVs. Different brands.

 

Cthulhu's Duo Party

Cthulhu's Duo Party at Cherry Bomb Studio Gallery Cthulu themed cupcakes, zine colouring, Green tea laced with something, all to promote their project using the Cthulhu mythos. 

Sara Leger and Melissa Yi share a Cthulhu cupcake

Knife in the Head (reference to great movie with Bruno Ganz), colouring zines.