He always manages to get my good side...

Jun 28, 2012 22:55

So there is this amazing German-Canadian man who comes to the park pretty much every week - and has been doing so since the early 1980s. He knows his photography. Occasionally he sends me spectacular pictures. Here are a few: 

Listening attentively: something clearly caught our attention. On the left is Lance-Corporal Phillip Underhill (played by my colleague Neil), a veteran of the Great War (that's the First World War to you folks who know about the second one). I'm on the right as Sister Nancy Sparrow. I'm also wearing a Canadian military (nursing) uniform, with the rank of Lieutenant. 




This is the lady's bicycle I bike about the street. You can tell it's a lady's bicycle because of it's low body: I can ride it even in an ankle-length skirt, as I did just before and right after this photograph was shot.



Preparing for the blinded soldier program. A nurse, doing her job! You can see most of my colleague's uniform here. (I outrank him, P.S.)


Blinding the soldier. We claimed that he'd been exposed to mustard gas. Note the streetcar in the background. That one I think was restored - it had been furnished and used as a cabin out by Sylvan Lake for many years before being brought to the park!



I am super pleased to be driving this Ford Model A. It's from 1928 (so the early years of the Model A, just after they stopped production on the Model T). My passenger is the lovely Katherine, a volunteer and former interpreter.



In the Model A again, this time with Owaiss along for the ride. He's an amazing Islamic interpreter!  This Model A is also a pickup truck... and a convertible. You can screw on a roof should you so desire. But with it being such a beautiful day, who wants to go through that much trouble?

As always, these photos were taken at my awesome place of employment, Fort Edmonton Park! (Seriously, come visit us. I may even let you be a passenger in the Model A, if you ask nicely!)

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