Downtown
(Wrote this by hand, as I was downtown today and without access to a computer...)
10:50 am Oct 24:
I am sitting on the ledge (inside... no worries) of my Mum's boss's office window in downtown TO, just admiring the view. Personally, if it was my office and my call, I would put cushions on the ledges and work from there instead of the boring desk. But that's just me...
I am eleven floors up at Richmond and York - from here I can see Old City Hall, the back of the Sheraton Hotel (which blocks my view of Nathan Phillips Square... I totally wouldn't want to stay on this side of the hotel - party because lower down there'd be no view, and partly because I wouldn't want to be giving anyone else a... view... but don't worry - I didn't see anything... unsavoury today...), Osgoode Hall and a few other court houses in the distance. The new Four Seasons Center sits proudly on it's block, with University Avenue a clear view just beyond.
The city is so breathtakingly beautiful from above, and I find myself filled with some sort of nostalgic feeling - wishing I could live down here permanently, I guess - though I don't know why, as I've never actually spent an extended period of time down here. I have, however, always loved coming into the city, and I suppose the feeling stems from that.
That totally makes me sound like a country kid. I'm just a suburban one - stuck between the city and the country, and yearning for a bit of both.
They're calling for snow today. Foreboding clouds are rolling quickly southward overhead with a promise of some sort of weather upset - though what it will be, who knows?
A few of the clouds part, and beautiful patches of blue peek through, followed shortly by the sun (which shines on the buildings and bringing them to life), but they're quickly swallowed up again as the clouds continue their race to the waterfront.
I wonder how many people stop to look at the sight of these buildings and their characters as they are revealed in a new light, or watch the patterns the clouds are forming. I know the people in the building with me didn't/don't - I got up and pointed them out. I wonder if actually being down here would cloud (no pun intended, I promise) my eyes, and not let me see things like this.
Anyway, these menacing cotton balls don't take away from the allure or 'mystique' of the city below - if anything they add to it. There's just something about Toronto in winter (or pre-winter, as it were).
Just to my left, I catch a glimpse of the Canada Life building. It's beacon lights are white and climbing - meaning the temperature should do the same. Let's just hope it doesn't climb too high.
To be honest, I love the snow! There's just something so magical and peaceful about the first few quiet snowfalls of the year - and I can't wait for a real and sustained one.
Alas, back to the city, which continues on it's way, regardless of the ponderings of a twenty-something sitting in a window high above.
(P.S. It rained... :) )
10:50 am Oct 24:
I am sitting on the ledge (inside... no worries) of my Mum's boss's office window in downtown TO, just admiring the view. Personally, if it was my office and my call, I would put cushions on the ledges and work from there instead of the boring desk. But that's just me...
I am eleven floors up at Richmond and York - from here I can see Old City Hall, the back of the Sheraton Hotel (which blocks my view of Nathan Phillips Square... I totally wouldn't want to stay on this side of the hotel - party because lower down there'd be no view, and partly because I wouldn't want to be giving anyone else a... view... but don't worry - I didn't see anything... unsavoury today...), Osgoode Hall and a few other court houses in the distance. The new Four Seasons Center sits proudly on it's block, with University Avenue a clear view just beyond.
The city is so breathtakingly beautiful from above, and I find myself filled with some sort of nostalgic feeling - wishing I could live down here permanently, I guess - though I don't know why, as I've never actually spent an extended period of time down here. I have, however, always loved coming into the city, and I suppose the feeling stems from that.
That totally makes me sound like a country kid. I'm just a suburban one - stuck between the city and the country, and yearning for a bit of both.
They're calling for snow today. Foreboding clouds are rolling quickly southward overhead with a promise of some sort of weather upset - though what it will be, who knows?
A few of the clouds part, and beautiful patches of blue peek through, followed shortly by the sun (which shines on the buildings and bringing them to life), but they're quickly swallowed up again as the clouds continue their race to the waterfront.
I wonder how many people stop to look at the sight of these buildings and their characters as they are revealed in a new light, or watch the patterns the clouds are forming. I know the people in the building with me didn't/don't - I got up and pointed them out. I wonder if actually being down here would cloud (no pun intended, I promise) my eyes, and not let me see things like this.
Anyway, these menacing cotton balls don't take away from the allure or 'mystique' of the city below - if anything they add to it. There's just something about Toronto in winter (or pre-winter, as it were).
Just to my left, I catch a glimpse of the Canada Life building. It's beacon lights are white and climbing - meaning the temperature should do the same. Let's just hope it doesn't climb too high.
To be honest, I love the snow! There's just something so magical and peaceful about the first few quiet snowfalls of the year - and I can't wait for a real and sustained one.
Alas, back to the city, which continues on it's way, regardless of the ponderings of a twenty-something sitting in a window high above.
(P.S. It rained... :) )
posted by Starr @ 00:48
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