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Aug. 6th, 2017
looking around
Aug. 6th, 2017 07:12 pmSince our trip to the UK, I've had flashes of seeing my surroundings at home through fresh eyes.
When we got to Eggcetra this morning, I had time to kill (since the wait for a table is rarely under thirty minutes)... and this time I decided to go for a walk. In England I got used to doing a lot of walking, and there were numerous benefits in that for me, and I'm hoping to reclaim some of those benefits here. So, this period of enforced waiting combined with a gorgeous day made walking seem like the perfect answer, and I went for a wander round the plaza.
The sight of this round back made me think of the iconic shots from Ozu's last film:
Saw this sign in a consignment store window:
KeepRite was a factory back in Brantford where my dad worked. He was on the air-conditioner assembly line there before I was born, and he worked there all through my life until he retired. (I even worked there once, briefly.) It was odd to see this bit of my past facing me here, unannounced and so far removed in space in time.
Seeing this tower made me think about how today we see these all over, and yet not so many years ago, they and their function didn't even exist. In the lower right is an electrical line pole -- the likes of which used to fill every neighbourhood, and yet my new neighbourhood today was built without any of these at all. Time and technology change:
Caught my reflection in a darkened store window on a very bright day:
And finally I made it back to Eggcetra and looked across the street at the homes... thinking about how they don't look like they were built as A Development all at once by the same builder, as happens so often here when new homes go up now:
Well, that's all, I guess -- I wasn't really leading up to any point. My thoughts were wandering today, is all, and this post kinda wandered with them....
When we got to Eggcetra this morning, I had time to kill (since the wait for a table is rarely under thirty minutes)... and this time I decided to go for a walk. In England I got used to doing a lot of walking, and there were numerous benefits in that for me, and I'm hoping to reclaim some of those benefits here. So, this period of enforced waiting combined with a gorgeous day made walking seem like the perfect answer, and I went for a wander round the plaza.
The sight of this round back made me think of the iconic shots from Ozu's last film:
Saw this sign in a consignment store window:
KeepRite was a factory back in Brantford where my dad worked. He was on the air-conditioner assembly line there before I was born, and he worked there all through my life until he retired. (I even worked there once, briefly.) It was odd to see this bit of my past facing me here, unannounced and so far removed in space in time.
Seeing this tower made me think about how today we see these all over, and yet not so many years ago, they and their function didn't even exist. In the lower right is an electrical line pole -- the likes of which used to fill every neighbourhood, and yet my new neighbourhood today was built without any of these at all. Time and technology change:
Caught my reflection in a darkened store window on a very bright day:
And finally I made it back to Eggcetra and looked across the street at the homes... thinking about how they don't look like they were built as A Development all at once by the same builder, as happens so often here when new homes go up now:
Well, that's all, I guess -- I wasn't really leading up to any point. My thoughts were wandering today, is all, and this post kinda wandered with them....