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

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Ah, you haven't heard it until you've heard it while driving over the Skyway Bridge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_Bay_James_N._Allan_Skyway) on a dark winter night, only to have the choir thunder out "...amongst these Dark Satanic Mills" just as you crest the peak of the bridge and see a dozen steel mills belching flame.

Or something.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Are they still belching flame? I assumed that Hamilton was as deindustrialized as most NAFTAn "industrial" cities. Please say I'm wrong. :)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Still happily billowing smoke and Christmas-light-coloured flames, sir! Though, for our own good, the smoke is now infused with Vitamin C.

[hannahmorgan.livejournal.com]

It's not smoke....it's steam!

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

Wow, awesome! I had no idea. Give it up for Canadian industrial might!