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walking to bruce's on the narrow part of main road by the ramp, met a man who was had just got out of his car in a strange spot. he hadn't parked by the town hall but right at gruchy's hill.

cloudy windy and cool - 10 degrees - he said that there are no capelin to-day as they spawn in the rocks right below us. he mentioned the whales of a couple of days ago. that the bad weather comes in from shoe cove - the south east. watch the flag on the post office. as i was going to make his snap he raced to speak to someone who had pulled up.

on the way to bruce's thought that i saw paul - nodded.

returning to number 14, saw everyone by the ramp at gruchy's hill and asked if paul would be there for 5 minutes - yeah - as i was leaving he said that i had made a photograph of lloyd and him some time back.
yelled back - yeah did you see it?

raced to find the book and brought it back. he had gone by then out in the cove to tend to nets it looked like.

headed back to the house and watched until he came in and headed back
over. it seemed like there was some sort of catch - crab - but not much. showed him the snap in the book with everyone gathered around. geordie took the book and really had a look at the people around here. while this was happening i was photographing them.

geordie said that he would like a book - yet another person - said that i would send him one when i get back.

my snaps are all over pouch - in bruce's in the elementary school, some up in the pipe house from 1999.

took the way through bauline to head into st. john's wanted to photograph the pond that was used for swimming - the swimming area only about six feet wide. preferred the sand box where a box was placed on the beach the sand included was no different from the sand what was excluded.

thought again about stopping in torbay but yet again left it for another day - what other day i don't know.

hitting st. john's parked in gower street where i used to park by the church close to the duke. parked behind a s.u.v. with two kayaks from illinois.

blog posted, thought that i would wander a part of st. john's that i had never seen. a walk along hamilton avenue that heads out to the village mall. constant hill up out of downtown mix of houses - wanted to photograph the labatt's brewery and see what else there was.

heavy mist i was cold but sweating due to the hill climbs, found a ball park at victoria park. worked around the game. yet another field with a great view. from above i could see the cabot tower of signal hill.

another big difference between the rock and the rest of north america. passed ned pratt's photo studio which couldn't be missed. stained wood façade a good three houses long modernish rustic with ned pratt photography on the building. in the states no-one would advertise a place with expensive equipment like that. in chicago one walks past photo studios unless the address is known.

photographed the spaced between buildings, irvings mainways gas bars, closed conveniences - fitting at the goal of this wander was the closed wal-mart at the village mall - launderettes.

after a while i stopped photographing and just walked a looked. this happens instead of forcing i simply wander. it also had to do with the change of scene. the houses were becoming more suburban - front lawns more space between them and topsail road was more an arterial than an urban street.

the idea was to take a bus from the village mall to mount pearl but the weather was too dreary, walked back into town via topsail road -- here it was more treed, older a number of basketball hoops.

in the drizzle and now eight degree weather took in the jazz festival on the outdoor stage in george street. it was so cold that the guitarists had trouble keeping their hands warm. about 50 die hards were sitting and standing around under umbrellas.

listened for about an hour - long enough for a respectable time to head over to the duke to read the globe. got my pint went to the back by the door and started to read. sue was playing darts. the usual crowd was gathered at the far end of the bar.

about 30 minutes later the placed filled, the giant television was turned on and for the next 45 minutes people watched the test pattern. they were awaiting the broadcast of the super rugby league match between the newfoundland rock and the toronto extreme. stayed of the first half but it was depressing the rock were not doing well at all. in fact i moved to the bar to get away from the crowd.

back to number 14 to make the move to the pipe house as martin and gabrielle are coming. lower studio, even closer to the studio. couldn't find the key so asked robert upstairs to open the lower studio door. went to thank him to find out that he and jill are heading out. they want to see gros morne, and l'anse aux meadows. suggested the short ferry ride to labrador. i think that the ruggedness of the pipe house was too much for them. she had stepped on a nail and spent the day in emergency to get a tetanus shot.

so once again the run of the entire pipe house. still the best view.