Yesterday was surreal. So many downtown businesses were closed, the streets were empty. The first photo looks up University Avenue (one of Toronto's widest and busiest downtown streets) at about 12:30, when normally the vehicular and pedestrian traffic would be ~very~ heavy. The second looks east along Wellington Street, between the Toronto-Dominion Centre and the Royal York Hotel (showing the infamous fence), again around 1pm, when traffic would normally be very heavy:
http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.com/2010/06/blog-post.html Didn't bother taking pix of cops - they were all just sitting around doing nothing. Kind of reminded me of reading about France's "Phony War" at the beginning of WWII. I wonder of all those fences will be like the Maginot Line? Today's supposed to have many demos, but I don't know if I really feel like going downtown to find out. My better half is feeling under the weather and I might do more good sticking around the house on this rainy day. Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
