Green and Pleasant Land?

[pyat]

A common claim for Hamilton is that it has more trees per hectare than any other city in Canada, or possibly North America. I'm not sure of the truth of that, but, in any case here are a series of photos from the web, depicting my home town... none were taken by me.



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The green space in the middle of this photo is a fairly dense urban residential area. velvetpage's grandparents live in here, somewhere, and we lived in one of those apartment buildings near the middle of the scene.


Looking across the ice to the steel factories. Sometimes, especially in winter, Hamilton presents some very alien scenery. Look the other way on a cold winter morning, and you'll see a plain of ice extending to the horizon, and a swollen orange sun rising amidst dervishes of frozen dust.










A perhaps more honest photo...

Comments

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

A lot of southern ontario towns are pretty damn green.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Yup. As noted above in comments, though, I suspect the claim to "most trees" is made on a # of trees per hectare average, and Hamilton has that huge greenspace strip running through it that likely skews the ratio. Remove the Niagara Escarpment, and we'd more like London or Barrie or something.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that's just the geographic jumbledness south ontario has.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

It did strike me when we were there that London had fewer, but I'm not sure of the accuracy of that assessment, as we were in the downtown.