Wonderland Road

Superb capture! Stay well!

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Thanks, William. You too.

A bit of a misnomer I think John.................wasteland would be more accurate!

It is a fascinating shot though...........hi-vis fences, traffic cones, hanging traffic lights, overhead wires, lamp posts, billboards, a couple of cars and even two tiny birds............that's a lot of stuff squeezed into one place that at first glance seems quite empty!

The neighbourhood's being built up, Keith. That may explain the hanging traffic lights, which are rare in Ontario. They will probably be replaced by lights on posts after the road-widening is complete.

The road is named for Wonderland Gardens, which used to be incorporate a major nightclub back in the days when popular musicians had to tour constantly. Today it is a gardens and banquet hall.

Those shops must generate a lot of traffic to need (I think) 12 sets of traffic lights plus the cones!

Ontario likes traffic lights, George, and there are two intersections there. I used to live off St. Clair Avenue West in Toronto, which had around two dozen lights at each intersection (not including the pedestrian lights). Several of them were to accommodate trams, though.

Like Keith said, a kind of wasteland, empty and yet full of things, but those things feel empty of meaning. One might contemplate this as a meditation on the failure of capitalism and the fate of humanity after we've all been wiped out by viruses sent to us by a vengeful Nature Goddess. Eventually, this will all be overgrown like Mexican ruins ...
I better stop now. Perhaps breakfast will help.

Tim Hortons empty of meaning? It's got too much meaning for my liking, Sarah. I have to admit, though, that the Tim's I've been to here are better than the ones I've been in in Toronto.

When "this will all be overgrown like Mexican ruins" I'm pretty sure that there will be plenty of Tim's cups in the undergrowth.

I think I shall just bite my tongue and not add to the chorus.

(Ouch!)

This represents only 1/320th of a second in the history of the universe, Bob. As Marc Riboud said, approximately, it's about as informative as something you overhear on a bus.

Ooh, you have a Lowe's! Lucky you, I love that store. Of course a Tim Horton's, which I visited in Vancouver a few decades ago.