H1 Captures Living History Lots of imgs

Took a walk this evening along Finn Slough. (Slough means a dead end tidal inlet). The first Finnish settlers in British Columbia, Canada settled here well over 100 years ago. This area has bearly changed to this day. Come with me.

An abandoned Gillnetter:



A view of the old settlement. The main Fraser River is over the trees in the background.



Some of these homes are still lived in, like this one. There are three families, desendants of the original settlers still living here.



I love this one. The bicycle must be as old as me, but the occupant of this home has a more modern scooter.



A pretty Home but not one you would want to stagger home to after a little to much celebrating.



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Hutchman



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The last pic with the house is just fantastic, incredible weathered browns with the colorful flowers just to set it off. Most excellent composition, exposure and subject.

Hutchman , the Mermaid 3, looks like a boat I used to own,,,love these pictures...

and I like the first and last pictures best. This first set of living history ones are great.

On the prairies, a slough is a patch of wetlands. My English father, who loves the book "Pilgrims Progress" pronounces this word slao as in "The slao of Despond" (Despondency is a slough...John Bunyan was poetic). My Canadian friends pronounce it slew. My dad figures that this is a unique Canadian pronunciation. Is it? What do Americans say?
John Dunn

Not only can you do Eagles but you do great stills! I find these utterly fantastic. That last one deserves to be a KPOTD!

Thanks for a nice start to my day!

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Busch

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jrdu said:

and I like the first and last pictures best. This first set of
living history ones are great.
On the prairies, a slough is a patch of wetlands. My English
father, who loves the book "Pilgrims Progress" pronounces this word
slao as in "The slao of Despond" (Despondency is a slough...John
Bunyan was poetic). My Canadian friends pronounce it slew. My dad
figures that this is a unique Canadian pronunciation. Is it? What
do Americans say?
John Dunn

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I don't know what Americans say John I'm an ex-Brit (Welsh). You are right about Canadians saying "slew" I say "slough" as in plough.

Glad you liked the series. A lot of Finns settled in this area early on and there are lots of reminders around.
Thanks for looking

John--
Hutchman



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busch said:

Not only can you do Eagles but you do great stills! I find these
utterly fantastic. That last one deserves to be a KPOTD!

Thanks for a nice start to my day!

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Thanks Garry, glad you liked them.

John
Hutchman



Galleries at http://hutchman.smugmug.com/

FLHT said:

The last pic with the house is just fantastic, incredible weathered
browns with the colorful flowers just to set it off. Most excellent
composition, exposure and subject.

Click to expand...

Thanks, I had not meant to split the series but I hit the post button instead of the edit.
Glad you liked them.

John--
Hutchman



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changeup2 said:

Hutchman , the Mermaid 3, looks like a boat I used to own,,,love
these pictures...

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But I bet you would not take this Mermaid out to a floating Starbucks )

John--
Hutchman



Galleries at http://hutchman.smugmug.com/

Excellent pictures John! I would've loved to have walked around there as well, lots of interesting old stuff to photograph! Nicely composed too btw!
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