Mount Brydges, Ontario

Superb shot! Stay well!

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Thanks, William. You too.

Chairs talking to each other - one lecturing to two, and two having a side conversation further back. Some robots standing against the back fence, probably with cans of beer in hand. But an empty picnic table, a sign o the times, which are ajoint.

Or a rather unlovely space, set up to be enjoyed, but not today, not this week, not for a while, perhaps.

I remember the world before penicillin. We never outgrow nature.

And a discarded Tim Hortons cup makes it an iconic Canadian scene. Tim's customers have decorated the country with their discarded cups.

Those chairs are way too close to each other ...!

Especially for Canadians, Sarah, who maintain the world's biggest interpersonal spaces. But then I guess we have lots of it.

North America has enough room for all manner of stuff. Same for Australia. The chairs are oddly angled, as well as too close for comfort. Perhaps there was a disagreement and a fight broke out, thus leaving the chairs cattywampus. Oops...I'm thinking of the USA.

Canadians often fight, Diane, because they're pretty sure no one around them has a gun.

I was at a show where Etta James talked about her days performing at Albert's Hall in the Brunswick Hotel in Toronto. She said people were always fighting there. She once lost her audience after two guys fought their way down the stairs to the street and the rest of the people left to see who won. I saw her at Albert's Hall back in the day, too. No fights but far more respectful production than at the snootier venue I saw her at the other time. The sound check at the snootier place seems to have been perfunctory. The sound system couldn't handle the high end of her dynamic range. Better program, too. No Swamp Dogg at the Hummingbird Centre.

Oh, I didn't think of that, John! Knives only, I guess. I read an article not long ago about the epidemic of lethal knife violence in the UK. Well, that's not funny, but it seemed almost mundane to me - an American who doesn't live around any kind of violence. It's just present nonstop in the atmosphere of the country.

Could be anywhere in the world - then you spy the Tim Hortons cup!