2013-04-14 Sun

Retired

I walked to the Green Living Show at the Exhibition Grounds this lunchtime. Down Strachan Avenue. About 7,000 steps in about an hour; about five kilometres.

The rails that will take the airport GO trains will be underground between Bathurst and about Ossington, by the look of it. A trench has been dug and stout box girders laid across it as far as the eye, as they say, can see.

Here's a view into the trench.

And here is a view looking east. The box girders are painted grey, and in this photo appear as a mat, although there are gaps in between them.

SUFE

Sort of.

I thought that this was a most imaginative use of a three-legged stool, keeping a two-legged crawler under control.

SUFE

I decided to become a landscape artist this morning.

All you need is what I needed - two sheets of scrap paper, food coloring, and one of the many frames I've rescued from the recycle room.

Here I've torn part of one of the sheets into 5 ragged-edge strips.

Here are a couple of drops of green, and of blue food coloring in a saucer of water. Stir gently with a fork.

After the first dipping, laid out to dry on a wire rack.

After several dips, seen from the back - the printed side.

Arranged for gluing.

This photo doesn't do justice; the ragged edges have adopted a darker hue, as if there are small shrubs on each rise.

The second sheet, as a backing sheet, has been dipped in a saucer of blue-tinted water.

That's not the sun shining, it is the flash from the camera.

Hang it all.

It would probably look better horizontally on a much wider frame - say three feet or so instead of ten inches.