Street Scene

Street Scene, originally uploaded by susanvg.

Pavement, slick from the gentle snow, shines with the night time lights. It's hard to think what cities were like before cars, before electricity. No office towers - without the invention of elevators. Now almost every window glows in the evening. City lights...

Mar 10/10 Neighbourhood

Mar 10/10 Neighbourhood, originally uploaded by susanvg.

In large cities, neighbourhoods are important. We create a village out of a city and live much of our lives in our closer surroundings. Neighbourhoods tend to reflect the character of the people who live nearby, unlike the more faceless downtown area. This is one of the trendier neighbourhoods, with specialty ice cream, overpriced clothing and shoe stores and places to buy gourmet food items. It also has the services every neighbourhood needs from banks, to a post office, pharmacy, hardware store and grocery store.

I like to window shop around here as there are some interesting boutiques. Not everything is overpriced and you can often find things not found elsewhere in the city.

Day 42: The Streets are Shining

Lights painting pictures on the shiny rain-slicked pavement. It's a winter thaw. The snow and ice shrink their footprints everywhere, dripping, slipping towards the drains. Even puddles shrink as ice dams melt, releasing the water to travel with the newly melted snow. Feels like spring, but the icy fingers of winter will soon have us in their grasp again.