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Originally Posted by someone123
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I've been staring at this photo for ten minutes now. I can viscerally imagine being ten years old and walking along the sidewalk, then laying down on the opposite embankment with friends on a hot summer day, the humidity in the air stifling like a wet blanket.
There is a soulfulness in that funkified row of brick shops leading to what looks like a government building or an apartment block. This kind of thing really speaks to me, as we all have individual orientations or preferences based on childhood environments, and I'm no different. Though I'm trying to identify what makes this vista distinctively Maritime to the Ontario eye, and I think what I've come up with is the grass embankment. Such a nice row of shops like that in a town or city here would probably not be right next to the gracious grounds of a large church, but would tend to be smack dab in the middle of a non-ecclesiastical commercial district.
I find it impossible to contemplate the prospect of living far away from streets like this.