Word Association: Swirl. Swoosh. Nike. Kaerpernik. By going down on one knee, he took a stand. Amen.
I will keep my gaze skyward looking for a Nike Swoosh Cloud. I will post when I find it!
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13. All Aboard !!!!!!!!
Check out that sky! That sky followed me on my train trip to Toronto last week. Train travel. Our train is at the core of our history and has practically and romantically weaved our massive country together.
Whenever I travel by train I wish for that fine balance between hoping it is not too crowded, and hoping it is not too empty. If it’s too empty, then how will we sustain this great service? I would miss it tremendously.
As for being too crowded? The worst of the worst is when the group table that seats 4 people is filled with government public servants travelling home to Ottawa; travelling first class on the train (Via1) is the only time their strict rules allow them to engage in any activity that is remotely close to being first class. That gang of public servants communing around their big table? They can’t hold the free alcohol. Drunk, they are very very noisy. Trapped in one of those noisy cars makes me want to strap myself outside to the top of the train to get away. Or to simply hurl myself out the window.
One of the very best parts of train travel has disappeared: the dense pretty yummy chocolate truffles that used to be presented to each passenger on a silver tray. (Was it really silver, or is that my inflated made-up memory?). I boycotted the train for years after that disastrous decision. Yes, a single chocolate truffle was enough to sway my decision to take the train over plane.
But I have let bygones be bygones, and I am back on the train. And I love it. Train travel in Canada. It doesn’t get any better.
Later. Jan 5, 2019. During my travels yesterday, Toronto Pearson airport security staff (the surliest in the world), engaged in their favourite past time with me. The pat-down. It was too long and too pat-ty, and I was trying not to scream and/or run. Let me say it again. Train travel. It doesn’t get any better than that.
12. Abracadabra I did it!
I have magical powers!!!! In Blog #7 Decided! I lamented about the ugly Place du Portage buildings and how I wished I could erase them.
I woke up this morning, and they were gone! Vanished.
11. Starship Enterprise
When Big Sun (Blog #10) goes down
10. Big sun
The Big Sun might seem like the really big deal of this photo. But it’s more than that. It is the mid-September Big Sun after the cool autumn air has been hanging around. A summer day in summer is nice enough. In Canada, a summer’s day in mid-September? Heaven.
I will be coming back to visit this photo in November. And December. And January. And February. And March. And probably April. Who knows? Maybe even in May too.
28, 33, 50
Not the measurements of a pear-shaped person with big hips.
Temperature 28 degrees celsius; feels like 33 degrees; with 50% humidity.
AKA: a perfect day