mikao's world

slivers

today is of course another beautiful day, my weatherpixie tells me it was 12 celcius two hours ago ( 54 degrees fahrenheit).

i went for a short walk over to the post office, where my mailbox was empty, but i did take my camera with me. i took the time to venture onto the root cellar roof to take a picture and ended up with a lot of slivers (i think that the wooden shingles are as old as the building!) and almost fell through the roof, and my camera was having some problems so the two pictures i took were not exactly what i wanted. our campus was actually a WWII air training base, and a few of the old time war buildings are still around, including the root cellar (it's still used today), the landing (our old chapel, it was a theatre i think in war time, and just happens to be one of my favourite places), the skating rink (it was an airplane hangar), and there's one war dorm left. the site i linked actually has a picture of the root cellar, it's the one in the top left of the first collage of four. the top right one is the skating rink, the bottom left is gable heights, a dorm (it got painted last summer though so doesn't look quite so cruddy), and the bottom right one is the laundromat. they've missed quite a few wartime buildings though, i know of more than just what they have pictured.

just a few slivers of history for you. it's a beautiful day out for taking photographs, so i am wishing that i had picked up some more film yesterday in moose jaw, but i forgot.