Trillium Set

The trilliums on Goat Island are starting to bloom this week. It's always a pleasure to visit the island on the first week of May to see the spring flowers. I was lucky to capture a few early trilliums today but by next week they all should be open.

 

Storm Watch

 

Cataracts

 

Niagara Falls

 

Post Office

Designed by Oscar Wenderoth, this historic Post Office in North Tonawanda, New York, was built in 1921-1914. The two story building is in the Classical Revival style and features a colossal central portico with two pairs of coupled columns resting on granite pedestals and an elegant domed cupola. 

Niagara Black & White

 

Ice Chunk

 

Bond Lake

 

The Storm

 

Misty

 

Niagara Rapids

 

Horseshoe Falls

 

Duck, Duck, Goose

 

Clyde L. Burmaster Park

 

Bond Lake

 

Wrong Tracks

 

A Train

 

Train Station

The roundhouse was completed in 1849. During the Civil War. Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was given strict orders to stop all train activity at the Martinsburg Roundhouse as a part of a campaign against the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company and the Union army.  In 1862 Jackson burned down the roundhouses. Following the end of the Civil War, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company rebuilt a roundhouse in Martinsburg. The current roundhouse was constructed in 1866. 

City Life

 

Roundhouse Station