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This is a view from atop the ACC looking down over Union Station. This is the slice where the glass atrium will be located.

This is a photo from February of 2010. This was taken during some of the first visible starts to the Rail Shed Roof project at Union Station. This section of roof is located at the south east corner of the rail shed roof. Covering Platforms #21-24 where currently the tracks have been removed for the construction effort and are soon to be replaced.

This photo is featured in the Union Station Revitalization Album

Just wanted to feature a photo that I came across again on my site. I love the look of this photo and wanted to share this.

Water Logged

This image was taken at Ken Reid Conservation Area near Lindsay, Ontario. You can make out a reflection of a new bridge above the water. This is an old pillar which used to support a bridge on a now abandoned rail line out of Lindsay.

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Well any of you that know me, know I am always busy and up to something. This leaves me no time for the site, and as a result this site sucks…

I am trying to make amends by attempting to update this more frequently. So here are some updates.

Most of you probably know I work for GO Transit now. (aka Metrolinx)

Most of you probably know I am still on the ski patrol

Most of you don’t know I just built a new computer to help in these updates.

I loved watching the Canadian Olympic Team beat the pants off the US – Who didn’t? (Right – the US)

Union Station is going under severe renovations and I am helping design the new network infrastructure to support the new Union Station in Toronto!

I am going camping in March – well not so much camping – yurting at Killarney Provincial Park with Danielle and friend Rob P.

I will go into more details on each one of these as the week progresses. Hopefully I will have the time.

Update: (Yes, another update!)

I have changed the look, and spent some more time on the site. I won’t lie though, I can’t sleep and it’s about 23:00 on St. Patricks Day, and no I’m not out drinkin’ it up on a glorious day, just sitting in the basement trying to tire myself into sleep. Next Update – Photos! I need to work on photos. Many of you wonder what I do with all those images you see me snapping with the new camera – well until now they sit either on the card, or on a drive somewhere…

Wow, what a week it has been in my yard. Some of you know that I live on a ravine in the Oshawa area and there is plenty of green space in the area. This brings different critters and different challenges to our yard. A couple of days ago we spotted a Doe Deer in our yard along with it’s fawn. This has been a spectacular site.

She gave birth to her fawn this spring, and although we haven’t seen it until later on Saturday we had heard from neighbors that she was around.
We were working on our fence this weekend with the help of my Father-in-law and his neighbor from Lindsay. Just as we finished up and cleaned the cement from the tools and got everything tidied, the clouds started to open up and rain on our little parade. After the rain was done we decided to take a look at the stream and were we impressed with the sheer awesomeness of mother nature! The entire creek had flooded completely and into our back yard. This of course led to me and my father-in-law wanting to wade through this raging river and out to where the banks used to be. I have a before picture of the river and banks here:

This is the river after the storm. There is a four foot fence entirely washed out and covered here. This was a wire and cedar post fence likely put in around 1965. We werent too concerned that it is gone as we had been talking with the neighbors about removing it anyway.
This is after:

Like I said the power of mother nature is quite impressive. The current from the water was a bit of concern when we were wading through the shallower parts and really quite drastic. I got an OK pic of the currents that were raging past some trees that aren’t usually in the river.