Photo: Farewell to SkyTrains

As I said a couple of days ago, and as mentioned on the sidebar over there, after more than two years getting rained on in Metro Vancouver I'm back in Metro Toronto. I left the West on November 29th, and it was one hell of a day--you never appreciate just how much stuff is contained in an apartment until you have to pack it all away. Once it was all on the truck, though, I was left with as close to fifty pounds of luggage as I could get to; backpack, roller suitcase, and two duffel bags.

It was some kind of fun maneuvering that load down the Fourth Street hill to Columbia Station, I can tell you.

When I got off the train at Granville, I had to take a retrospective photograph; I've used that station hundreds of times, being so close to work, and last times are always strange when you recognize them for what they are. It was some kind of time in Vancouver, to be sure... but sometimes it just feels like a blur.

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Photo: Trafficking with Geese

It's a fact: animals have no regard for the laws of humankind. Without any shred of guilt animals will kill, animals will steal, and animals will ruthlessly hold up traffic on Steeles Avenue. That last one is what I captured in today's photograph, at any rate; a couple of Canada geese leisurely strolling on the Steeles blacktop while the cars built up behind them. In the end it didn't make much of a difference, since Steeles seems to be nothing if not a forest of idling cars. Truly the result of foresighted planning decisions, I can assure you.

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Not Quite Dead

It appears that it's been six months since I've posted anything. What an oversight. But I am, at the least, still alive.

The truth of the matter is that I've let some of the weblogging fire go as of late, as I said back in the beginning of October; my recent relocation had something to do with that. At the end of November I pulled up stakes again, decamped from the rainy Lower Mainland, and returned to Toronto just in time for six months of winter or winter-like weather to start. Six months is enough of a break, I think; personally, one of the big issues for me was that Google changed the Blogger posting format right around the time I paused regular updating for the first time, and even months later it still strikes me as irredeemably ugly and clunky.

So we'll see how things go from here. On those occasions when I post, I'll endeavor to provide material actually worth your time, and if it's something that isn't a fulminating reaction to something I saw in some newspaper, so much the better. New Tunnel Visions posts will be on the way in due time, hopefully--although, thanks to the chaos of my transcontinental move, I still have yet to figure out where I put the notebook in which I recorded my impressions of the Portland Streetcar and the Seattle Streetcar Network. If that means I just have to return to Cascadia one day to get that information fresh, well... I'll confront that when it comes. Besides, I seem to recall promising overviews of the systems in Buffalo and Cleveland, at least, and they're far easier to get to from Toronto than Vancouver.

In the meantime, have a photo of a fire hydrant wearing a kitty toque.

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