Sunday, March 6, 2011

mount pleasant fragments



 We walked - frequently slowing down - under a mixed bag of early spring weather cues on a recent afternoon around the eastern slope of the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood...
towards Kingsway and Fraser Street and up Fraser to almost East 30th Avenue, then down to Kingsway again, with their block after block of rather banal and gritty storefronts and restaurants operated by mostly
Vietnamese and Philippino interests, with the odd Polish deli and bakery remaining...


I was more taken in by the odd splashes of colour and art that jumped out every now and again then by the fairly benign street life of a quiet Saturday afternoon along these stretches...





and by the quirky home-made signs gently exhorting drivers to slow down in the laneways, and for those on foot to slow down and look up or sideways or downwards every once in a while...
  

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