We've seen the increasing size of houses over the decades since the second world war. Then post-war houses were built on a 660 square footprint, and had three bedrooms. When I was young, we saw these houses in many neighbourhoods in St. Catharines, and seemed fine at the time. Now designer tool sheds seem as large as small houses.
It was a delight to see this tiny tool shed at the Maine Coastal Botanic Garden. It seems like the right size for one of those post-war houses. It would nestle in the back garden and be in scale with the house.
This one is leaning - it is the children's garden where whimsy reigns supreme - the fence posts are carved in cats and the entrance is marked by giant watering cans and tools.
October is a sky-watching month according to National Geographic with Zodiacal Lights from October 1-15
"Starting about an hour before sunrise on Saturday, October 1, and lasting the next two weeks, keen skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere can hunt down one of the most elusive astronomical phenomena visible in the sky: the zodiacal light.
This pyramid-shaped beam of light is easily mistaken for the lights of a far-off city just over the dark horizon in the countryside, and has also been called “false dawn.” But this light is more ethereal; it is caused by sunlight reflecting off cosmic dust between the planets.
Amazing to think that today we’re peering at billions of dust-sized particles that were left behind after the planets formed about five billion years ago."
