Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Blog Guelph: 10/31
The thrift stores are a flurry of activity today as Guelphites clammer to pull off their creepy costumes for the first big, pre daylight savings time 10-31 in my memory. Yes folks, our clocks have yet to fall back meaning it will be light longer than ever tonight.
So here's the question of the day? Will parents buckle to the incessant pleas of their ghostly brood and hit the streets before sunset or try to restrain the eager alter egos until dark of night?
So you know, I've got my money is on the buckle factor.
AND - thanks to the 'it's happening faster than we ever imagined global warming' we will also enjoy unseasonably warm temperatures.
How scary is that. Boo Hoo.
So then, and on a more cheerful, helpful Blog Guelph note, if you happen to be one of the poor misfits that didn't scoop a mullet wig at VAVA Village or mistakenly dumped the Hallowe'en costume bag during spring cleaning, today's series of photographic brilliance will provide you with some easy solutions to your tricky day.
Sue Richards
Click any one of the photos to visit that photographer's Flickr photostream. You'll be treated.
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Blog Guelph: Bride of Frankness
Sometimes an exaggerated look will do the trip. That and a well placed scar.
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Blog Guelph: Cross Dressing
Labels: digitalambitions, trees
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Blog Guelph: Big Shot
One of the easier costumes to pull together - coat yourself in attitude.
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Blog Guelph: Save The Pumpkin
If carving is not your forte, consider this value added alternative.
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Blog Guelph: NOse JOb
Works every time.....
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Blog Guelph: Devil's Night
'Tis a spooky time of year. Tonight is Devil's Night, tomorrow Halloween and the streets of downtown Guelph will no doubt be swarmed by costumed crazies.
But lest you think that's all that's going on in the city centre, think again.
There are a plethora of good times to be had.
Just take a look at the following 5 pics to see some of what the core has in store for you.
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Blog Guelph: Edifying Edifice
Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, along comes Edifying Edifice. A precursor to the Guelph Festival of Moving Media, this special event sees ten local media artists transform downtown Guelph with site-specific video installations over five nights. Curated by the brilliant Scott McGovern.
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Blog Guelph: Frogs on Film
GIFF - Guelph Festival of Moving Media begins November 2. Now in it's 5th year.
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Blog Guelph: Accordian Chick
You can also have the wonderful pleasure of hearing the sultry voice and musical stylings of our very own flickergurl, Accordian Chick, a.k.a. Meredith Grant at The Albion tonight.
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Blog Guelph: A forkful
It's your last chance to Dig-In Downtown.
Don't miss this opportunity to feast on a great deal.
Tonight and tomorrow night only!
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Blog Guelph: Love Love Love
The Dalai Lama is in Canada this week - apparently meeting with our man Steve and the boys sometime today. It was a nice relief to hear this news broadcast between the regular grim reports of death, destruction and despair that the media feed our bleeding ears.
I especially found pleasure in one short clip that CBC Radio One ran of the chirping voice of the Dalai Lama reporting that he is now an honourary citizen of Canada - followed by the most delightfully love filled giggle that you could ever hope to hear from a person.
The man is full to the brim with love.
And so too is Blog Guelph on this fine last Monday of October.
Love
Love
Love
{giggle}
All we need is love.
Sue Richards
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Blog Guelph: Love Is Light
Labels: Alan Norsworthy
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Blog Guelph: Oh Bleeding Heart
Blog Guelph: Love is Sweet
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Blog Guelph: Love Hurts
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Blog Guelph: Love Is Here
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Blog Guelph: Love For Sale
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Blog Guelph: Love Lasts
Friday, October 26, 2007
Blog Guelph: Guelph's Factory District
Friday's Gem of the Day
Labels: The Giant Vermin
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Blog Guelph: Word Crazy
No, we haven't gone completely bonkers today, but we do confess to loving words as well as pictures. Pictures and words, that's Blog Guelph in a nutshell.
Our incredibly talented photographer, Peter Kelly, has nicely captured an historically crazy word.
Asylum - late Middle English via Latin from Greek 'asulon' - refuge, from 'asulos' - inviolable.
Each and every day I receive an email shedding light on the origin and usage of a single word.
Whether or not this improves my word power is debatable but it is fascinating in an oh so nerdly way.
Take a look for yourself, A.Word.A.Day.
and while you're at it, click on these Guelph specific pics....just see where they can take you.
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Blog Guelph: Moving Pictures
Cinema - shortened from 19th century French 'cinematogaphe', in turn from Greek 'kinema' or 'kinemat' - movement.
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Blog Guelph: the ins and the outs
Vinyl - mid 19th century. From Latin, vinum (wine).
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Blog Guelph: Home
Now here's an odd yet oddly comforting word familiar to us all here at Blog Guelph...
If you say it fast three times you'll sound like a dog barking.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Blog Guelph: Flies in Your Face
Welcome to Wednesday.
Today's series of posts give way to some well photographed animals. Since much of Guelph's history is based in agriculture - what with G-town being the home to The Ontario Veterinary College and all - AND because OVC just happens to be the oldest veterinary college in Canada and the United States, it seemed fitting and fair to let the critters have their day in the blogospotlight.
OVC was originally located in Toronto in 1862, moved to Guelph in 1922 and became a founding college of the University of Guelph in 1964. To review Key Dates in the History of the Ontario Veterinary College, click on the link.
To see other cows, cats and dogs previously posted on Blog Guelph, click on the hyper-linked word.
Moo to you.
Sue Richards
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Blog Guelph: Lionel
If you want a stable friendship, get a horse. ~ Author Unknown
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Blog Guelph: Puppy Love
Children are for people who can't have dogs. ~ Author Unknown
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Blog Guelph: Boid watchin'
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
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Blog Guelph: Moo?
All is not butter that comes from the cow. ~ Proverb
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Blog Guelph: 3
Today Blog Guelph takes a gander at the magical, mystical, marvelous Number 3.
Everywhere you look, even in our photo pools, the number three seems to rear it's significant head.
trio...triad...triplet... triptych...trilogy...tricycle...triplicate...triumverate...
it goes on and on and on...
So behold (and click!) a smattering of images and reflections on the first odd prime number:
Pythagoras called three the perfect number, basically because it expressed all - beginning, middle, and end.
When something happens three times, there is a pattern.
Earth is the third planet in its local Solar System.
In the constellation Orion, his belt is made up of 3 stars in a row.
Third time's the charm.
A hat-trick in sports is associated with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts.
Now, on the count of three...
-Downtown Lynn-
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Blog Guelph: Primary Clover
The 3 Primary Colours our brilliant photobug, Firda, has captured are
Red, Green and Blue.
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Blog Guelph: Three feets?
3 R's: Reading ~ 'Riting ~ 'Rithmetic.
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Blog Guelph: Three towers
Three appears regularly in fairytales and mythology.
Think 3 blind mice, 3 little piggies, mama bear, papa bear and baby bear.
Don't even get me started on Freud....Superego anyone?
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Blog Guelph: Three Bikes
Clearly, three's a crowd in this case...
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Blog Guelph: 3 wee ghosties
Close encounters of the Third Kind.
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Monday, October 22, 2007
Blog Guelph: Sharon Smith
Photo taken in Guelph, Ontario Canada.
For the last nine years, my book keeper, Sharon Smith, regularly came to my home office to do my books. Always punctual, I would have her coffee ready to pour, paper work organized and my prehistoric iMac cranked on in anticipation.
Like a tradition, we would start the monthly visit pretty much the same way every time. Sharon would settle in the office chair and gently pat the computers dusty head - I would offer up specific accounting needs that I had identified and we'd both comment on the state of the universe. Then I would leave her to the task of coaxing data into the belly of the beast of 'artificial intelligence'.
When Sharon didn't appear last Thursday morning, I immediately started to worry. It was 9:15 and in the entire time we'd worked together I had never known her to be late.
I called her home and left a message.
When her sister called back a short time later to tell me the sad news of Sharon's sudden death earlier in the week, I was stunned to say the least. Now I'm deeply saddened.
Today's series of several images is dedicated to my friend and wonderful book keeper Sharon Smith. She saw me through some magnificent highs and excruciating lows over our years together - always steady as eddy. Indeed, she helped managed many of Guelph's artists and community group finances and guided even more befuddled people through 'tax madness' each year. Sharon loved dancing, singing and being outdoors by the shore of any body of water.
She is and will continue to be greatly missed. Gilchrist Funeral Home Visitation and Memorial service details are here.
Sue Richards
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Blog Guelph: Wild Speed River
Photo taken in Guelph, Ontario Canada.
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Blog Guelph: A Place To Be
Photo taken in Guelph, Ontario Canada.
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Blog Guelph: Tunnel Vision
Photo taken in Guelph, Ontario Canada.
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Blog Guelph: Autumn Falls
Photo taken in Guelph, Ontario Canada.
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Blog Guelph: Time of Reflection
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Blog Guelph: The Sun Sets
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Friday, October 19, 2007
Blog Guelph: Mornin' Sunshine
Blogger appears to be having some hiccups these days, thus the meagre offerings yesterday.
The Randomness theme could have been more aptly titled abandon-ness.
Here's hoping for next week...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Blog Guelph: Running Behind
Yikes!
We here (okay, just me really) at Blog Guelph are running behind today.
Time is clearly not on my side and our poor blog is paying the price.
Please stay tuned for some spectacular photos and inspired commentary
(here's hopin'!) as the day progresses....
See, even Blogstresses can lose their cool!
-Downtown Lynn-
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Blog Guelph: A Detour of the Psychogeographical kind
Still running behind!
To remedy this, I've chosen to post seemingly haphazard photos.
No evident themes, perhaps even a complete abandonment of the food theme this week. Fear not though, these shots were carefully selected with deep consideration.
But let's face it, we should just call today Randomness Day.
If Flickr can do Interestingness, then surely Blog Guelph can own the theme of randomness, non?
So sit right back and behold the wealth of arbitrary shots taken by a variety of talented photogs.
Click on the pics to peer further into their respective photostreams.
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Blog Guelph: Nellie McClung
On this day in 1929 the British Privy Council decided that Canadian women were technically "persons" under the law and therefore able to hold public office. The Famous Five, as they became known (Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy and Louise McKinney) were the petitioners in this landmark case. They now appear on the reverse of the $50 bill.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Blog Guelph: Sign of Meat
As our week of food themed snaps continues to pour forth, I'm delighted to post five finger lickin' photos, from our pool of terrific photographers, for your gastronomic pleasure.
Located on the north side of the 401 between the old highway six exit and the Hanlon Expressway, you can't miss this classic, big ass Schneiders billboard that lights up like Christmas at night. Known in some circles as the 'wiener beacon', the sign has stood its ground - in various forms - since 1961. The 'Famous for Quality' slogan was coined in 1929.
Sue Richards
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Blog Guelph: Coffee Coffee Coffee
We're a very lucky city to have our own gourmet, fair trade, organic, coffee roasting joint that also happens to be a worker coop.
Locally owned Planet Bean now offers two locations for your bean buying pleasure - on the east side of town at 259 Grange Street #2 and right downtown at 51 Macdonell Street.
They've got some crazy Ethiopian coffee that will kick your caffeine lovin' butt.
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Blog Guelph: Tarts of Butter
I love butter tarts.
Imagine my glee when a new location for terrific butter tarts opened in downtown Guelph.
If you love butter tarts, simply go to Quebec Street and visit the Blue Ribbon Deli.
Purchase tart(s). Eat. Die and go to heaven.
But first, tell them Blog Guelph sent you.
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Blog Guelph: Elvis is Cooked
Another Sunday Cake by 'they are all cylons'.
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Blog Guelph: Asparagus.....
...makes your pee smell funny.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Blog Guelph: Corn
Now I realize that it may seem to you fine folk that we here at Blog Guelph are food fetishists, and you may be right.
But the abundance of the harvest begs not to be ignored, and besides, it's World Food Day today.
The UN is launching a campaign with the slogan, "The right to food: make it happen". Read all about it
here.
One way to count our bountiful blessings locally is to consider a "partnership" of sorts with a CSA (Community Shared Agriculture). I'm aware of 4 in this area and know there are more out there. Some of them will just be beginning their winter shares right about now.
Local food a plenty...it's healthy, smart and yummy.
Check out this link for information on the farms near Guelph:
Craft Ontario
Ah, food, glorious food....
-Downtown Lynn-
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Blog Guelph: Carrot Girl
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Blog Guelph: What's Up Doc?
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Blog Guelph: An Apple A Day
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Blog Guelph: Fall Harvest
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Blog Guelph: Pumpkin Cheesecake
Guelph Flickerite, they are all cylons, uses her harvest goodies to make a cake EVERY SUNDAY it seems.
Cake Sunday, now that's a good idea...
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Blog Guelph: Welcome To Monday
Greetings from Blog Guelph.
I am pleased to invite you to check out today's fiver pack of food and drink related images.
This is what happens when you blog while hungry during harvest season.
I would like to remind those of you within reach of our beautiful downtown that DIG IN DOWNTOWN - the culinary bonanza of set price lunch and dinners - continues this Tuesday and Wednesday. Click on this link to review the menus and locations. Then grab your favorite foodie friend and go to friggin town.
Sue Richards
Oh yah - please click on the photos. They're live linked to a world of photographic splendor.
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Blog Guelph: Two Pairs
Blog Guelph: Steamy Cook
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Blog Guelph: Adventure in Dairyland II
This mural is located over by Victoria Road and Elizabeth Street.
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Blog Guelph: Get The Beet
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Blog Guelph: Guelph Family Thrift Store
Friday's Gem of the Day
Noticed and shot by the gal with an eye for odd - Ms. D. Denim.
Sue Richards
PSSssssttttt: Both the Guelph Studio Tour and The Guelph Arts Festival are happening downtown this weekend. Over 60 - yes six zero artists will be showing their wares. Check it out!
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Blog Guelph: Green Strides
It's not easy bein' green.
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things.
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're not standing out like flashy sparkles in the water- or stars in the sky.
But green's the color of Spring.
And green can be cool and friendly-like.
And green can be big like an ocean, or important like a mountain, or tall like a tree.
When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why, but why wonder why? Wonder,
I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful!
And I think it's what I want to be.
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Blog Guelph: Green Celebration
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Blog Guelph: Meteoric Green
Gaining ground every day....
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Blog Guelph: Green Green Everywhere
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Blog Guelph: Reflecting on Green
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Blog Guelph: Rich with Green
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Blog Guelph: Soft Colour
Today's series of images are dedicated to the definition of 'soft'.
If you pay heed to the mainstream media, you may come to believe that there is much hardness in the world. The brutal images, inflamed letters and numbing news create the impression that kindness, love and compassion are going the way of the dodo. In this culture pain and suffering sell and money is where it's at.
Thankfully Blog Guelph is not mainstream.
While people speak of 'the harsh reality of life', I invite you to walk softly through this photo set for another perspective on our beautiful community.
Sue Richards
Labels: Downtown Lynn
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Blog Guelph: Morning Mist
Ignatius Jesuit Centre of Guelph
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Blog Guelph: Mushroom Gills
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Blog Guelph: Lemon Meringue Pie
Save yer fork - thars pie!
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Blog Guelph: Guelph Lake Farm
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Blog Guelph: Enchanted Forest
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Blog Guelph: Election season
Tomorrow is Election Day.
Of course the choice is yours and yours alone and while it's not my place to influence your decision, I strenuously recommend you do vote.
Because you can.
Here's a couple of reasons I implore you to get to the polls:
:: It took until 1916 for women in Manitoba to win voting rights and finally within nine years the rest of the provinces followed suit, ending with Quebec in 1940.
That's mindblowingly recent history in my books.
:: There are millions of people in the world who do not have opportunity to vote.
You do.
Enough said.
Now I also believe the voting age in Canada should be dropped to 16.
But that's just me....
So don't just let those cards fall wherever they may. Speak out!
Read more, find your polling station, place your X on your ballot.
Run, run to the polls....
-Downtown Lynn-
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Blog Guelph: Ben Polley Campaign 2007
Take a gander at this enlightening opinion piece from The Guelph Mercury about Green candidate, Ben Polley.
Polley would help shake things up
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Blog Guelph: Vote Here
Advance polls today, actual polls tomorrow....
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Blog Guelph: X marks the spot
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Blog Guelph: Candy jars
Like a kid in a candy store: so many choices.....but are there really?
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Blog Guelph: Don't Walk, Run
Time is running out...
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Friday, October 05, 2007
Blog Guelph: Dandelion 1
Friday's Gem of the Day
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Thursday, October 04, 2007
Blog Guelph: At The River Run, the sky's the limit
10 years ago today, the dream of many finally came to fruition. A performing arts centre in an oh so artsy town, nestled on the banks of the mighty Speed River.
Since that time, thousands of concerts, dances, conferences, plays and all out celebrations have taken place here.
It's the kind of place that you have to enter to realize it's majesty and full potential.
The River Run Centre is dressing itself up and laying out a variety of events for it's birthday party, so why not head there this beautiful long weekend to partake?
Here are the host of activities planned for the 10th:
The Party tonight - a very elegant soiree
The Concert friday night - Jim Cuddy may be sold out...
and a FREE Community Open House on Saturday which will offer attendees the opportunity to take a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of such a grand facility. Lighting, soundchecks, even performances by 20 community arts organizations.
If this is a place you've rarely visited, take this opportunity to see what lies within those massive walls. If you think you know it well, look again. Just imagine the potential for the next 10, 20, 50 years....
For more information on this special weekend, visit the River Run website.
Take your camera along and see if you can capture an angle not yet covered by our 6 fabulous photogs...
-Downtown Lynn-
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Blog Guelph: River Run Centre - Pretty by night
Only our much missed photographer Dezso could capture the brilliance of what lies within the walls of the River Run.
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Blog Guelph: The blue wall
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Blog Guelph: Dancers at the backstage door of the River Run Centre
Dancers lurk in every corner...
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Blog Guelph: Lookout
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Blog Guelph: A River Runs by it
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Blog Guelph: Cat Nap
The five set for this weeks apex offer traces of impermanence caught forever by a bevy of swift finger foto dudes.
Now then - allow me to plant a thought.
Take the time to notice something beautiful in your world today without trying to capture it. Let its shape, texture, colour, smell and energy infuse your spirit and fill your memory bank. Later, when you most need it, you can make a withdrawal from your account.
I call this compound interest for the soul.
Sue Richards
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Blog Guelph: Billy Idol In Guelph
~Couldn't resist the tabloid head - line~
Second choice: Hair Today - Gone Tomorrow.
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Blog Guelph: Field of Corny Dreams
If you grow it, they may come and cut it down.....
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Blog Guelph: A Popular Tree
Located by the Speed River - unless the rain has washed her face clean.
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Blog Guelph: Fall Carpet
Vacuuming NOT required. 100% organic.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Blog Guelph: Dinner, mmmm!
Yes people, the blessed culinary event has returned!
Dig-In Downtown, the mouth-watering, harvest-celebrating, yummy, good n' affordable times are back.
If you haven't seen an ad, a poster, a postcard or a web banner yet, then clearly I'm not doing my job....
Here's the nitty gritty of it all: Click on the ad to your right or visit our shiny new website, www.downtownguelph.com, click again on Dig-In Downtown and behold the bounty that 12 of our finest restaurants have to offer. Every Tuesday & Wednesday throughout October. And there are 5 of them this year.
Whoohoo!
Lunches for $10-15.
3 course Dinners for $20-30.
Take a friend to lunch, take your lover to dinner, take yourself out for a treat......Eat local, eat well.
Eat people, eat.
-Downtown Lynn-
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Blog Guelph: Pretty Harvest Fare
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Blog Guelph: Applemania
Apple Pie, Apple Crumble, Applesauce, Apple Dumplings, apples, apples everywhere...
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Blog Guelph: Pumpkin House
Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Soup, Pumpkin Seeds, punkins', punkins' everywhere...
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Blog Guelph: Death by Weiny
This is absolutely NOT on the menu for Dig-In Downtown....
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Monday, October 01, 2007
Blog Guelph: Watcher of Guelph Skies
Thanks to the purchase of a spiffy, delux yoga mat from Living Yoga on Wyndham Street, several hours of my weekend time was consumed by lying on my back and watching the glory of the September sky. It appears by today's series of images that I was not alone.
Autumn is the Act Four of 2007 and this fall Mother Nature's costume changes are vying for a Dora Award. Do make an effort to catch part of the show. The Guelph set is particularly striking and designer Mom Earth surely know how to dress a city.
Sue Richards
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Blog Guelph: Cloud Showroom
King and Queen size available ~ non-allergenic.
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Blog Guelph: Albion Hotel Blues
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Blog Guelph: Guelph's Rainbow Fountain
Someone had fun with the crayons....
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Blog Guelph: Well I'll Be Damned at Guelph Lake
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Blog Guelph: The University of Guelph Glass Sky
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Blog Guelph: Guelph Living
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