Friday, May 15, 2026

Inappropriate product placement

 


From 1997 -  I'm not sure where  I took this - somewhere in Ontario. Although the ham is an Equality brand product, they could have been sold in smaller grocery stores that were not part of the Food Basics chain. Obviously the kosher products and the ham should have not been beside each other.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Monday, May 11, 2026

Heron colony


Great blue heron colony (Ardea herodias) Grand Héron, c. 1990, Bull Island (also known as Dickinson Island), St. Lawrence River, Akwesasne.  Many of the trees on the island had died, probably due to the birds' acidic droppings and breaking branches to build nests.   

 

Saturday, May 9, 2026

Lower Town, Quebec City, c. 1989

 I was in Quebec City from 1987 to 1990 - these are some photos I took I think in 1989 in Lower Town.

Little boy in electric jeep











Prickly Pear

 

Trip to New Mexico 1993, Prickly Pear Cactus


Fatal fire, 1990s, Guelph, Ontario


These kids were lined up like sparrows on the fence looking at the scene of a fatal fire, which I think included children, in Guelph, Ontario in the 1990s. The constable had come to shoo them away. A version I took just before the cop showed up ran in the Toronto Star, but I didn't get the negatives back. 

 


slightly earlier

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Salon du Debosselage




Sometime in 1990

'Salon' is a bit of a joke, as it's more for a hairdressing shop. 
 I think this maybe the one near St-Louis-du-Ha!-Ha!, Quebec, according to the yellow pages "Fondé il y a plus de 30 ans par Berthier Thibault,"and now called Carrossier Procolor Cabano, with a new building, different from this Quonset hut.

1060, ch du Golf, Témiscouata-Sur-Le-Lac QC