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08/25/2005: "Rockin' the Cul-de-sac"
I was out on my bike today and took a detour in and around Wychwood Park. I found this psychadellic design painted on the ashphalt of a cul-de-sac near Christie and Davenport. So colourful! So labour intensive! The groovy pattern and loud colours were out of place in this, the land of the tastefully landscaped front yard. A leftover from a street party perhaps?
I was in Florida visiting a great-uncle in a gated senior's community earlier this summer, and caught their 4th of July celebration and parade. It was the liveliest I have ever seen that place. People dressed up, decorated their bikes and golf carts (many of the folks there own golf carts to drive around) with things like streamers and flags and tinsel-y stuff, or mannequins dressed up like Uncle Sam, and then we slowly snaked our way through the neighbourhood. People not in the parade stood on the end of their driveways and waved. The parade route was unlike any other I have seen - we had to go by all the houses, and this meant going in and out of the many cul-de-sacs. I drove one of the "floats", and it is hard to make the tight turns on the dead end streets, but I think those people appreciated us bringing the party out their way.
(Then, later that 4th of July night I went out for a jog, and went down one of the cul-de-sacs. Two people came out to "chat" with me... I'm sure they thought I was tresspassing.)
