RHH's photos with the keyword: cannery

This is another view of one of the old cannery buildings at Semiahmoo looking across Drayton Bay to the town of Blaine and beyond it to Mount Baker. Baker is just to the right of the cannery building and further to the right Twin Sisters. This was taken on an excursion with our youngest son and his family in late January.

I am back. For various reasons I took a lengthy break from ipernity but have decided at lest for the present to continue. One reason for stopping was the loss of my camera which was dropped last summer into the San Antonio River and was a write-off. I now have a new camera though this was taken with my phone before I got it. Have also had some health issues to deal with and have been very busy with other matters. The photo was taken on an excursion with our youngest son and his family the end of January, not long before they moved to Brisbane, Australia. This is part of the old salmon cannery at Semiahmoo, Washington, near Blaine and the Canadian border. In fact, the land in the background is Whiterock, British Columbia. Many of the old cannery buildings are still there but the area is now mainly a park and resort. Semiahmoo is long spit of land between Drayton Harbor part of the town of Blaine and Semiahmoo Bay and Whiterock, B.C. There is large hotel there but also walking paths and beautiful views back over Drayton Bay of Mount Baker. We spent an evening there with our family members walking some of the paths, watching the sunset and enjoying the lunch we had brought along. We will miss them in the area.

This photo was taken in the old cannery on the 400 acre agricultural part of the hospital grounds. The cannery provided employment for the residents of the hospital and processed the fruit (especially strawberries) and vegetables that were grown on the farm, as much as 1.5 million pounds annually according to one of the signs. The four buildings that are part of the Cannery are now some of the most ruined and derelict buildings on the site. with roofs falling in, windows gone and old benches and machinery sagging and fallen. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/01/northern-st...

This is one of the old cannery buildings in the agricultural area of Northern State Hospital, formerly a state-of-the-art facility for the mentally ill. It is falling in on itself and is probably even a bit dangerous though we went in side and took pictures. The previous picture was taken inside this building. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/01/northern-st...

This is another shot from the agricultural area of Northern State Hospital, the part of the grounds that is now a public park. As I noted in an earlier post, the cannery provided employment for the residents and income for the hospital and used the fruits and vegetables which were grown on the farm. These are the most dilapidated buildings on the grounds as is evident here. What exactly the equipment was used for I do not know, but it is rather ironic that the fallen fruit from an old apple tree outside now litters the floor of the cannery and goes unused. I don't ordinarily post in black and white or monochrome, and because the sunny day accented some of the subtle coloring, I didn't, but most of these pictures are actually better in monochrome which seems to emphasis the sad condition of these buildings and seems to make them more stark and grim. I am, for that reason, tempted to repost the whole set in monochrome, but we shall see. I have a lot of other pictures from last summer that I would like to post also before spring and summer and another hiking season arrive. ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2013/01/northern-st...