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If you'll look closely you'll even see the sun rays going through the clouds (and yes, I know I can digitally enhance the sun rays but I don't want to)
Taken in the Embarcadero Muni station, March 28, 2005. Edited while listening to New Order's "Shellshock", my new SOTM (song of the moment). This is entitled "Shellshock (2)" because there was a first version, a colour version, that I didn't think turned out as well (you could see the muni tracks reflected in my glasses a little too much).
Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
(Don McLean)
The renovated Horta gallery in Brussels Central Station
Every day I take the train to work and back, and it's a pretty dull commute, except for when I start to enter Toronto. I see the high rise apartment buildings that multiply before your eyes. Then I see Skydome (now called the Rogers Centre). And then finally — the CN Tower. Anyway, the ride home is far more boring just because I'm saying goodbye, if only temporarily, to the big city. The further I get from beloved TO, the height of the buildings diminish even more. In life, we always want to be at Point A or B, but nowhere in between. The journey I take every day seems to be sitting on a seat (if I'm lucky) in absolute dead quiet. Sometimes I hear people ruffling their newspapers when they turn the pages or small talk between adults. Thankfully, the ride doesn't last for too long — 30 minutes at most and then I'm off to said destination.
By the way, if you're wondering why the window is a mesh screen, that's because this particular car is covered with advertising on the outside. Even with that in the way, I can still see outside.
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I love, love, love seeing the huge flocks of starlings flying overhead this time of year. Today one enormous flock was kind enough to swarm directly over me as I was walking to work. Thanks, guys!
It was a perfect day for walking -- all cold and frosty and Decembery -- and an even better Friday in general. We both got to leave work early, so we got to kick off our normalizing weekend with extra-long naps. Yeah, we know how to live.
--Schn.