Watawa life » Museum of big things http://www.robink.ca/blog A photo blog set in Ottawa Wed, 23 May 2012 01:25:17 +0000 en hourly 1 Museum of big thingshttp://www.robink.ca/blog/museum-of-big-things/ http://www.robink.ca/blog/museum-of-big-things/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:38:47 +0000 Robin Kelsey http://www.robink.ca/blog/?p=98 This was the kind of day when it was hard to take a picture of anything that didn’t look like it belonged on a calendar, such as this perfect autumn tree.

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But enough about nature! I’m tired of nature. Today I visited Ottawa’s little-known Museum of big things, also known as No.4 Generating Station. 

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Look at those big things! What could they be? The generating station does not explain.

Big thing 1
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Big thing 2
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Big thing 3
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I rode home through Westboro. I still had many questions, such as “What is this?”

The writing doesn’t appear to be using the alphabet as I know it, and those stars are scary. Is an attack imminent? I can’t even understand it well enough to Google it.

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One-stop shopping?

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Nice van!

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TV shrine. Did it meet an untimely end? Maybe Elvis shot it.

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Conch meat (very clean), beef feet. Yum!

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And what is this? They’re going to need more than that big leaf to fend off such a hard rain. Or is that a cliff they might fall off of? Look at those ducks sneaking up on them!

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It was a beautiful and puzzling day in October.

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