Helpful old fire truck

Each year in early December, the antique fire trucks in the Stratford District come out of mothballs to aid in the annual food collection for the local food bank. 

On that day, you can hear the horns and sirens for a couple of hours to let you know they are coming! The fire engines drive up each and every street in the district to collect food. Volunteers ride with them on the trucks and in vans that follow to pick up sacks of donations left beside the mailboxes or handed to them personally.

It's pretty cool to see.

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Waiting for spring

Some more photos to cheer up a dreary winter's day.

 

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snow art

Taranaki got a huge snowfall this week. Here are some of the art works that came of it.

A few hints of red for Ruby Tuesday and Rednesday.

Also joining  Outdoor Wednesday and Just Beautiful.

poet's bridge

This is "Poet's Bridge"

The bridge was paid for with winnings bet on a horse called "Poet".

Not quite as romantic as you thought, is it?!

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mailboxes

I love how the post office has boxes accessible from the street. This set has a sliding pane in front of them, but most are totally reachable from the street.

These boxes sit beside a cove at the entrance to the pier.

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Bits of red

Posted for Ruby Tuesday

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ladybug

Linked to Sweet Shot Tuesday

 Ruby Tuesday

Happiness Project

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red door, blue door

I love these older churches based on English design.

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red seaweed at waverley

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Red blooms from Hollard Gardens

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