It may be only March17th but spring has arrived. The high today was nicely into the 70s. Winter jackets were abandoned and basketballs appeared all over town. This boy was caught shooting hoops at what the kids call the Lego School thanks to it colourful exterior and simple geometric decorative shapes.
These condos have a roof line treatment reminiscent of Western false front architecture. This is the look exhibited by buildings gracing the main street in Hollywood westerns. The buildings feature vertical facades with a square top hiding the simple inverted "V" roof-lines.
The interesting thing about these square tops is window in the square top. It appears to be a working window bringing light into a small room at the front of the attic.
It is amazing how many townhouses are going up all over London The number of different designs is also amazing. Oh, the looks repeat, it's true, but not as often as one might think. And to just what design classification should each of these rows of townhouse be slotted? Modern, retro, contemporary? In April, my oldest nephew is coming for a visit. We will be touring some of these new developments. Possibly he will be able to proffer an informed opinion.
Land is expensive in Canada. On a map, Canada looks huge. But the truth is that most folk live on the southern edge of the country, close to the U.S. border. That narrow band of land is but a small part of the total land mass that we think of as Canada. Now, think farmland. Go too far north and the winters get too harsh and the summers too short to support the successful farmings so common in southern Canada.
When I was a boy, single family homes on full-sized lots almost the only option when it came to housing. Townhouses were rare and highrise apartment buildings non existant. Today, with a population more than double what it was when I was a boy and land becoming more and more valuable, townhouses are incredibly popular and may be the big wave of the future, unless highrises edge out townhouses. Time will tell.
When the little girl reached into the bag of M&Ms, she pulled out a number of weird, large candies. Each contained two peanuts. No M&M was stamped on the outside. She gave each one a careful inspection and then confidently declared these were definitely "em"posters.
All signs of last Christmas, now months past, have disappeared from my neighbourhood, all that is but for one display that may still be standing come spring--which is but less than two weeks away. I'm reluctantly beginning to root for the snowman: "See if you can make it to summer. You go, snowman!"
