Down At Pier 8 For The Tall Ships. Grand Lady Of Hamilton Harbour, The HMCS Haida. Some Clips Of Activity.

Well that's a kicker to ruin a quiet night. Fire alarm went off. Looks like we rated a 2 alarm. Appears to have been someone fooling around and pulled an alarm at 10:30pm tonight. Most of the building evacuated. A few stayed inside - not particularly smart. Most took their pets out. I tried to get mine but she got in such a panic from the noise, I wasn't able to reach her. Glad it ended up being a false alarm. (at Hamilton, Ontario)

Hammer city records. #hamont #artcrawl #discoverhamilton #hammercityrecords #jamesstreetnorth (at Hammer City Records)

Very interesting morning touring the Scottish Rite Masonic Temple facility at King W and Queen S. Home to 8 of 30 area lodges. They held in open house today in celebration of the official Freemason's foundation 300 years ago, though their may be ties going back further. A lot of history. Very open and friendly bunch. Did a nice job of dispelling many of the "secrets" associated with being a mason. #hamont #discoverhamilton #openhouse #scottishrite #myfreehamilton #300thanniversary #freemasons (at The Scottish Rite Club of Hamilton)

Busy day at #Supercrawl #Hamilton on James St N. Lots of activities for the whole family and all ages. Sounds, colours, food and more. Be sure to go down tonight or Sunday to enjoy this massive street festival. @Supercrawl #hamont #discoverhamilton #artcrawl #artwork #arthamilton #jamesstreetnorth #jamesstreetnorthartcrawl (at Hamilton Supercrawl)

CBC HAMILTON celebrating their 5 YR anniversary in Hamilton. Congratulations and thanks for the good and objective reporting. #hamont #cbchamilton #5yearanniversary #artcrawl #jamesstreetnorth (at CBC Hamilton)

Mohawk College (my old alma mater) had a big presence at #Supercrawl with a large stage for local performers, booths and their new mobile portable classroom for City School on display. @Supercrawl #hamont #discoverhamilton #artcrawl #artwork #arthamilton #jamesstreetnorth #jamesstreetnorthartcrawl #mohawkcollege #cityschool @mocityschool #mohawkalumni (at Hamilton Supercrawl)

Spacey painting tonight as I resume art night Mondays at #sitelines #sitelinesopenstudio on James St N after a one month break. Nice to see everyone again. #arttherapy #centre3 (at Artforms)

Those who fail to learn from history, are bound to repeat it. Trump and the GOP are ALL complicit in deliberately violating the constitution, and should be indicted and removed from office. #fakenews @realdonaldtrump #LordDampnut #Drumpf #readtheconstitution #notmypresident #dumpthetrump #impeachtrump #impeachgop #goteammueller #mueller (at Lijst van bekende mensen uit Washington D.C.)

Some lightning shots I got this evening. Was supposed to be a fairly big storm so I set up my camera to try and image it. It nearly passed me by completely. I did manage to capture a few of the cloud-to-cloud lightning as it was receding. None struck the earth from my view. Took a lot of shots to get 3 moderately decent images. Never did hear thunder #hamont #lightning #thunderstorm #photography (at Hamilton Mountain)

Crescent moon over Bayfront Park. I'm at the park area trying to catch the sunset (not really) and check on the status of the 3 swan pairs with nests in the area. Sadly things don't appear to be fairing well. One nest near the Bayfront boat launch apparently has lost 1 egg (down to 5??). One pair near the macassa marina has lost all their eggs and have abandoned their nest. I couldn't find any shell fragments. They were out in open water several hundred metres away with no young. The third pair seems to be still intact. The mother is still on the nest but I could not see the father. #hamont #Bayfrontpark #pier4 #crescentmoon (at Pier 4 - Bayfront)