Flowers and a Tear Down

Hullo!!! Ooohhh... what happened here?? Hmmm... can you see the snowdrops?

Ah... that's better... I am out to document some more spring flowers!

I found a little patch of violets!! Aren't they cute. I wonder if they would transplant into our garden??

It would be nice to have a carpet of violets in the back yard...

 And.... of course... the first dandelions are out!! That means spring is definitely here.

On another, sadder note... do you remember the post I did in October last year of a beary old school?? Well...

They are tearing it down!!! The outside stairs have been removed and there are fences and stuff everywhere...

Poor old school. So sad that no one could do something with it. The school board chairman said “We need to get rid of that building, it’s full of contaminants, we need to deal with that." Sigh... so sad. I'm sure there's asbestos and goodness knows what else in there.

It would be nice to have a peak inside while they are ripping stuff out but they say it's not safe for the public to enter. Sigh... bye bye old school!

A Beary Old School

Good morning - blink, blink. Sandy Bear reporting from the pre-dawn gloom of an old school. Blink.. blink... We are here waiting for the sun to come up.

It is coming... soon. We have driven by this place many times and Mama thought it might be cool to get some dawn pictures... let's see if it works.

 Alright! Sun's up!

 This school has been closed for at least 10 years. They were talking to turning it into a community centre but... nothing has been done and it is quite bad inside apparently. The school was built in 1914 - which is beary old for western Canada!

 It must have been quite impressive in its day.

 Now, it is just beary sad looking...

 The grass still gets mowed... sometimes.

 But many of the windows are boarded up because...

Kids think it's fun to throw rocks to try and break them.

 The garbage cans look like they have fresh bags in them...

 So maybe the kids who throw stones are encouraged to throw their garbage in the cans?

 Old pictures of the school didn't have such elaborate exterior fire escapes...

See... this is what it looked like in the olden days apparently....

I don't think that little boy from 1914 would have done this to his shoes!

 It would be neat to go inside and have a look... but no such luck.

Now, nobody uses the stairs except some spiders...

 And it's not just the building that is abandoned... even the swingsets have lost their swings.

 Although I suppose you could still climb the monkey bars...

 There'll a little too big for a little bear though.

 But make a nice frame...

 We found this flower growing in the grass and have absolutely no idea what it is... any thoughts?

 And that's all for now. Hope you enjoyed the tour!