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Lost Garage
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Marie Antoinette Exhibition July 18 (zoom in, and yes, it’s a real thing, I checked)
My New Friend Sheriff Sharky Tremendous
Lil Dog
Door Roses
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- 1I know it’s not a heat pump
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Churches in the NOP area of Kingston today.
Without going full CLA$$WAR, the difference is striking: the historically wealthy downtown features stately limestone churches; in the traditional working class North of Princess ‘hoods, it’s all wood frame or brick buildings, and/or converted houses or other buildings. The exception being St. John, the only legit large limestone church more than a stone’s throw from downtown, at Patrick & Quebec St., in the formerly firmly working-class Skeleton Park / “The Boys” neighbourhood.
St. Paul’s (below) is technically NOP, but by one block, so it’s here for accuracy but doesn’t really alter the general pattern of big, fancy downtown churches and scrappier churches in the lower-income areas. Even among these, our Lady of Fatima is a legitimately impressive brick Portugese church, and St. Luke is a more traditional brick church.
But the others are pretty divergent.
For instance: Bible Baptist Church is just a “LIVE BAIT” style yellow light-up sign outside somebody’s brick house (there’s a ramp and a different entrance at the back, but to take a photo I’d have to get super intrusively up this person’s driveway, which I’m not comfortable with 1and, I mean, they’ve turned their home into a church, so maybe they should be okay with it, but it’s a testament (ha!) to the ‘house-ness’ of it all that I feel really weird about walking up the driveway and similarly, PREPARE THE WAY/International House of Prayer is a sign on the side of a post-war frame home; Zion is the basement of a seniors’ complex (also owned/run by the United Church, IIRC). I didn’t photograph former churches, of which there are also several.
Further north and west, the Kingscourt > John Counter neighbourhood has more churches, much more in the ’80s-onward Pentacostal “big low brick buildings” style, but this was already a 1-hour-plus ramble.
- 1and, I mean, they’ve turned their home into a church, so maybe they should be okay with it, but it’s a testament (ha!) to the ‘house-ness’ of it all that I feel really weird about walking up the driveway
Big churches of downtown Kingston. At some point soon, I’ll start covering the more modest churches North of Princess (NOP) here in Kingston — much more interesting, IMO, in their variety and scrappiness than these stately limestone churches.
Today, inventorying independently owned convenience stores in the North of Princess area of Kingston; bounded (roughly) by Princess St. to the south, John Counter to the north, Leroy Grant to the west and Montreal St. to the east.
Dawn at the Parish Centre
Community Garden
Hairy Stool? Talk To Your Doctor.
Purple Fence Flowers
Now That’s A Doorbell
Spooky Lights (Bagot St., Garage, taken from Brock St. parking lot)
WE
GROW
HAIR!
Blank Wall
I was dogsitting for a while, so while walks continued, stewarding a giant hound doesn’t lend itself to stopping and taking pictures.
Orange flowers, drooping flamingo
Wood siding on a brick house.
Makeshift Door Fix
Chalk House Art. I keep reading “Current 93” but that’s more my love of arcane neo-folk than anything.
My new friend Cassius Thunderpots
Mom, Where Do Bedbugs Come From?
Lost Creep
Bonne Fête St-Jean!
At Your Own Risk
Big Stump Big Gulp1I know it’s not a Big Gulp
The Grocer’s Apostrophe vs. Theft
Lost Castles
Flower Scotty Mural
Yarden!!
Stairs to Nowhere
Vine Pole
- 1I know it’s not a Big Gulp
Saw a pretty yellow flower up the street and thought “you know, just for a change of pace, let’s do ‘yellow’ today.”
