… the sun was out this morning. Absolutely right on cue too, because the festival is now over.
I consequently caught up with a few more mundane tasks such as tidying up, something that I seem to be rather lax about as you know. Anyway once that was sorted out and a few other things up to date I headed for the hi… town.
We’re back into the more mundane photography too, as you might expect. This one isn’t mundane though.
During the various land reclamation schemes that have gone on throughout the world for over a thousand years, one aspect that has occurred almost everywhere is the straightening of water courses to ease the flow of water and to reclaim more fertile farming land from the bed of the old course of the river and in particular, some of the more pointless meanders.
These areas are of course filled with silt from the river and so are more fertile than the surrounding land but as the soil is less compact there, any really heavy rain sinks in and is absorbed like a sponge rather than running off. When these areas are thoroughly saturated in prolonged heavy rain the water rises to the surface and you cans ee traces of the old water course.
There’s a marvellous example of an old meander, what they call an “ox-bow lake” this morning on the way into Fredericton via the old road
A little further on we encounter another interesting item. This is a Dodge Power Wagon from the 1940s I reckon (but I’m never very good at guessing the ages of American vehicles).
It has been mobile, would you believe, but its last licence tag expired in 1977 and it looks as if it was used for a while subsequently as a stationary crane for a paving company. Anyway it’s not been used for ages, all rusted up, and it seems to be on its last legs, which is quite a shame.
In town, there was nothing at all going on and so I wandered around for a while and then, taking full advantage of the public internet access in Fredericton, I wrote the web page for the Canned Heat photos and they are now on line. For reasons concerning copyright and image theft I’ve degraded the quality of the photos substantially, but there are high-quality images available for anyone who would like to see them, as long as you say the magic words.
So tomorrow I’m back on the road. No idea where I’m going, though. But ask me if I care?
