Thursday, August 31, 2006
Blog Guelph: Downtown Perspective
Sandra Regina provides us with this cityscape view taken from the tippy top of MacDonnell Street at the foot of the Church of Our Lady. Most Guelphites see the opposite perspective but as you can see, this view provides quite the vista of our downtown and beyond.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Blog Guelph: Refreshing
Speaking of water here we have a rather interesting perspective of the traditional Family Statue fountain combo that resides in St. Georges Square in the downtown. The water in this fountain is as much art as the statue itself.
Check out more of dezso's photos at the Guelph Farmer's Market every Saturday morning.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Blog Guelph: Communityfests
Neighbourhood group festivals are a fine way of creating a closeknit community. We had our annual Orange Skies Festival on the weekend. Dozens of folks from our street and environs came together to share a seasonal feast, conversation and talent.
Besides being entertained by the delightful "Girls With Chairs" our fancy was tickled by magician Benjamin Caesar. Josh McGee, Aimee Charbonneau and Tannis Slimmon offered their outstanding musical talent in an intimate 'round the picnic table' setting.
Upcoming fests as reported by our darling paper, the Guelph Tribune include: Grange Hill East Summerfest 2006, September 3, O'Connor Lane Park from 3 pm to dusk; Parkwood Gardens Neighbourhood hosts the 10th Annual Summer BBQ at Springdale Park, September 4, 11:30 tot 2:30; Kortright Hills Community Country Hoedown, September 9, 11am to 3:30pm at Kortright Hill School and Picnic in Exhibition Park takes place on September 17, from 1 to 5.
Sue Richards
Photo of "Girls With Chairs" by "Gal With Camera".
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Blog Guelph: Sign of Our Future
Upon arriving back in Guelph after a nomadic holiday, I was surprised to see these signs on people's lawns. I had no idea that the Pipe From Lake Erie was anything more than a "pipe dream/nightmare" used as a political tool in our last municipal election.
Silly, silly me.
According to the information on www.stopthepipeline.ca website, public consultation meetings took place during the sleepy month of August and none were held in Guelph.
Sue Richards
Photo by yours truely.
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Blog Guelph: Sign of Our Beliefs
Guess it depends on what you're doing.
Photo from Flickr by saffyre9.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Blog Guelph: Signs of September
As August ticks to an end, schools around the city are being prepared for the beginning of the academic year. In fact, with thousands of university students making their way to the University of Guelph from across the country and around the world, the entire city is gearing up.
The University of Guelph ranks very high as far as learning institutions in the country. According to the recent Maclean's Magazine survey "Guelph was No. 1 among comprehensive universities in seven of the eight categories that make up the magazine’s new University Graduate Survey."
I wonder if seat 162 is part of the Sudoku of Seating?
This photo was supplied by torontofotobug and is posted on Flickr.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Blog Guelph: Inside Blog Guelph
Back in early August, a small group of photo nuts meet at the Albion for a face to face, beer drinking, photo swapping good old time also known as Guelph's First Flickr Meet.
Blogger/photographer VW_Busman cooked up the idea and told Flickr.....the photo hosting site that Blog Guelph relies on. Upon VW's arrival, he laid some nifty Flickr swag stickers and buttons out for the gang. Here we see Blairware’s photo of a Flickr button resting on the head of a beer.
How friggin fun is that?!
If you're keen to contribute to Blog Guelph but have yet to figure out the complex system for having your photos appear, allow me to reveal the process.
Start by setting up an account with Flickr. Upload your digital photos. Tag the Guelph shots 'Guelph'. Then, go to Groups and join the one called 'Guelph'. You can read the various strings, throw your two cents worth into the conversation or just lurk around. After you upload your pictures and tag them, send them to the Guelph group. If the 'blog this' toggle doesn't appear over your images, we'll sort that out directly.
That's the full deal. Me or someone filling in for me will cruise the shots and post one or more a day with a wee commentary. Then we'll link back to you and leave a comment on your site.
Simple like sunshine don't you think?
Of course it would also be spectacular if you told everyone you knew about Blog Guelph. Even more stupendous would be getting a link from your website or blog to us. And triple fun arrives if you are a Guelphite and have a blog.....cause we'll add you to the blogroll on the right hand side.
Our purpose is fairly straightforward. My dear friend Henry Kock used to say if you want to see positive stuff go on in your community, you've got to make the process beautiful. Following this logic along, me thinks the more people engaged in 'making it beautiful' the more beautiful we'll be.
Blog Guelph wants to capture this cities beauty and encourage more of it. Guelph is our home after all.
We're also looking for sponsors and advertisers for the site. Even though this is an arty farty Art Jam project, it does take time and we do like to eat. Contact details are on the right hand side bar.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Blog Guelph: Tomatoes
Here we have what I believe should be called the August sandwich. Green thumbed folks all over Guelph can wander out into their own back yards and pick the fixings for this culinary delight. But, if gardening is not your forte, local CSA organic farms (community supported agriculture) like the on at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre of Guelph or Fourfold Farms (fourfold@golden.net) provide weekly produce pickups for members.
Beyond that, fresh produce stands and mini markets like Knapps Country Market out by Guelph Lake have everything you need.
Sue Richards
Thanks to foodie fellow Gregory Clifford Denton for eating so well. Click the Flickr pic.
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Blog Guelph: Corn on the Cob
Is your mouth watering? Can you hear the crunch, imagine the juiciness, taste the yummy sweetness?
Sweet corn stands seem to be liberally sprinkled all over town. I've noticed one at Speedvale and Woolwich plus a couple on the cities skirt line heading out 124 toward Erin.
Do tell. Where are you buying your local corn?
Sue Richards
Thanks to foodie fellow Gregory Clifford Denton, the only, for capturing these kernels. Click the Flickr pic.
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Blog Guelph: Dig This
One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes, four. Five potatoes, six potatoes, seven potatoes more.
August brings forth a bounty of some of the most outstanding fresh produce available in Ontario. A visit to the Guelph Farmer's Market on Saturday morning will leave you dizzy, dizzy I say, with food choice possibilities like these sexy spuds. Add a bit of butter, salt and freshly cracked pepper and your taste buds will be flowering in no time.
Sue Richards
Thanks to photo guy VW-Busman for capturing these taters. Click the Flickr pic.
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Monday, August 28, 2006
Blog Guelph: Flying
They're flying into fall.
Sue Richards
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Blog Guelph: Train
If summer was a train.....
Sue Richards
Click the pic to see more of photographer dezso's photo stream.
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Blog Guelph: Its a Bell
The Bell Piano and Organ Co. has a rich history and for a lot of people put Guelph (and even Canada) on the map.
Long before Canada was ever Canada — 1864 (it was called West Canada back then) brothers William and Robert Bell, with a staff of three, produced 25 four-legged 'Diploma' melodeons (a traditional English instrument). By 1881 nearly 200 employees produced annually over 1200 melodeons and reed organs, some of which were exported as far as Australia. In 1888 The company was sold to an English firm, at which time the name was changed to the Bell Organ and Piano Co, Ltd, and the manufacture of pianos was begun. The company's production reached 600 reed organs and 200 pianos per month. Bell pianos were exported extensively, and some of the handsomer models were sent to the palaces of Queen Victoria, Queen Frederica, the kings of Italy and Spain, and a Turkish sultan.
When piano sales out-stripped organ sales and seemed likely to continue doing so, the company in 1907 changed its name to the Bell Piano and Organ Co, Ltd. Agencies were established across Canada (one of which, in Toronto, became in 1913 a separate organization - the Bell Music and Piano Co - and also sold records, phonographs, and sheet music). A trade magazine was published in the years before 1913. By 1920 the company had begun to produce player pianos, electric reproducing pianos, phonographs, piano benches, radio tables, and cabinets. Over 170,000 pianos and organs had been built by 1928, when the company was sold to a syndicate headed by John S. Dowling of Brantford, Ont. The manufacture of organs was discontinued and the company renamed Bell Pianos Ltd. In 1934 the company was sold to Lesage Pianos, which perpetuated the Bell design.
The Bell Organ and Piano Co. once occupied most of the block bounded by Wyndham, Carden and Macdonnell Streets. Please visit the City of Guelph Library to learn more about the Bell Organ and Piano Co.
Chris Iwanowski
(some content sourced from the Canadian Encyclopedia)
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Blog Guelph: Macdonnell Street
Acker's Furniture spans the width of a city block with two entrances, one on Carden Street and this one on Macdonnell. The business has been operating in this location since before sliced bread. For the more literal among you Ackers opened in 1917.
If you’re looking for something to do, I recommend a trip to the upper floors of this very large Guelph landmark. The vintage red convertible is not part of their marketing campaign but it speaks well to the experience awaiting you inside.
Not Ikea. Photo by Accordion Chick. Click the pic.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Blog Guelph: Bean There
Oh yellow bean how fresh you taste.
You're crunchy sweetness stirs.
A feeling deep inside my mouth
That makes my taste buds blur.
I know that I must eat with haste.
Your season goes too fast.
But bean please know I hold you dear,
When harvest long has past.
Photo by vw-busman. Ode by Sue Richards.
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Monday, August 14, 2006
Blog Guelph: Summer in the Square
Here we have a downtown city summerscape shot by photographer dezso. Click the pic to see his Flickr photo stream or check out his work at the Guelph Farmer's Market.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Blog Guelph: Swimming in Guelph Lake
This great summer fun photo was taken by Accordion Chick. Click the pic to see her Flickr photo stream.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Sunday, August 13, 2006
Blog Guelph: Sunflowers
This is a classic summer in Ontario pic. Although I haven't been south on highway six to see this field for myself, I've heard rave reviews.
Depending on the time of day, the flower faces may or may not be seen by passing motorist. As their name suggests, the sunflower follow the course of the suns movement from dawn to dusk.
Click Rhenda's picture to see her Flickr photostream.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Blog Guelph: Windy Grass
Such are the fields around Guelph during the lazy days of summer.
Thanks to Accordion Chick for this moody shot. Click the picture to see her Flickr photostream.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Blog Guelph: Clear Skies, Happy Plants
Hope this isn't too corny.
Click ndh's photo to see his Flickr photostream.
Sue Richards
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Blog Guelph: Hey! Bales!
The fields around Guelph suddenly look like artwork.
Click Accordion Chicks picture to see her Flickr photostream.
Sue Richards
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Friday, August 11, 2006
Blog Guelph: I Spy
Photographer and blogging guy vw-busman has issued a 'where's this' challenge on his Flickr site. He claims he'll send you some 'stickers' if you get the location of this shot right.
Hint: Stonewall in Guelph won't fly.
Click on the picture to play.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Blog Guelph: Guelph Lake Sunset
Taken on Hillside weekend, this image by photographer 'personality dialysis' offers a glimpse of the perfect solution to sticky summer weather in a very hot city. Despite the fact that the heat wave has moved on and the current temperature possesses that tiny hint of *fall* (GASP!) Guelph Lake Conservation Authority is a lovely destination for communing with nature anytime of year.
Click the picture if you'd like to see this photographer’s photo stream.
Sue Richards
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Guelph, Ontario, Canada was founded by John Galt on April 23, 1827. We currently boast a population of 129,295 Guelphites including several thousand students from The University of Guelph.
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Thursday, August 10, 2006
Blog Guelph: Canadian Midget Girls Fastball Championship
Sixteen top teams meet August 6 - 13 in Guelph for the Candian Midget Girls Fastball Tournament.
Sue Richards
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Blog Guelph: Batter Up
Guelph Gators compete in the Midget Girls Canadian Fastpitch Tournament at Hastings Stadium in Exhibition Park.
Sue Richards
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