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March 19, 2006
My walk tonight
A few observations from my walk in the neighborhood northeast of Bayview and Eglinton tonight:
I was surprised with how many houses were completely dark at 10pm. I don't mean dark with the blue glow of the tv off in the back somewhere, I mean, completely shutdown, dead-to-the-world sleeping kinda dark. Probably about a third of the homes were like that. Another bunch had lights set up on their lawn pointing at the house ... I would have thought that having streetlights shining into your windows all night would be bad enough. Maybe they turn them off later in the evening.
I was also reminded that you don't have to be very far away from a major street before it gets really quiet. I was walking on Broadway where there are a whole line of almost identical two story brick houses with garages; probably built after WWI or II. The only individuality is the size and shape of the awning over the front door. Even after all these years they look amazingly the same.
There's a street in that area called Divavale or Divadale. Do we need a whole street of diva's?
Posted by John at March 19, 2006 11:23 PM
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Maybe people saw you coming and decided to turn off all their lights. Or maybe there was a scheduled air raid that onley 2/3 of the homes knew about in advance? Or maybe you were stuck in a time warp and really WERE in the WW1 or WW2 era and only some of the homes had electricity?
Posted by: kerry at March 20, 2006 01:12 PM
the distillery shots are really lovely --- your photography eye is quite brilliant and your shots really seem to exude of the feeling of the experience. Bravo!!!! P.
Posted by: paula at March 28, 2006 12:11 AM