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London, ON, February 2009
About this photo: If it's got yellow in it, we want to see it. Thematic Photographic's all over this incredible shade this week. Head here to be (bee?) part of the action.You never know what you'll find when you peer over the fence of the city-owned equipment depot. Most people don't know it's there, and even if they did, they'd likely never take the time to look inside. What's interesting, after all, about a dirty, dusty wasteland filled with garbage trucks, piles of materials and other forgettable equipment? Never mind that this is what keeps the city more or less running - most folks simply can't be bothered to take a second look. Or even a first, for that matter.
But the really tall snowbank beside the chain link fence was too inviting. So while I waited for the end-of-day bell to ring at the munchkins' school, I climbed up, leaned precariously against a tree that swayed ominously in the wind, and shot away. Other parents stared, doubtless concluding I had finally lost it. I smiled at the thought of being judged for diverging from the herd. I'd rather follow my own decidedly different route, anyway.
Your turn: Now that I've taken it, I need your help naming it. Can you come up with a caption that best describes this photo? You can be as funny, flip or out-there as you wish. You can suggest as many as your brain can come up with - just click on the comment link below and go to town. We'll be taking suggestions all week, and will announce the winner next Sunday. For more background on our weekly Caption This funfest, click here.
About last week's disco-themed photo: Nostalgia's a powerful thing, and I'm glad you were able to take this journey back with me. Honorable menschens go to the following kind, creative folks:
- Terri: "Time warp."
- Hilary: "Over thirty years later and still Stayin' Alive."
- Dana: "One rhythm wonder" and "Studio 54 wannabe."
- Moments in time: "The YMCA is next door" (Ironic, given the real YMCA is just a few blocks away.)
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These little yellow houses are actually starter homes in the first time home buyers budget.
They will be described by the real estate agent as "cozy" or "charming" or even as "a fixer upper with room to grow"
"...I don't know, do you think we should try to make a break for it?"
a roof over our heads
Signs of things to come?
For some reason.. that same song pops into my head...
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
So many things make me think of that song I heard in childhood... hmm... analyze that!
Yep, that's just about all I could afford if I actually could afford a house in the Vancouver real estate market.
Fortunately, I can afford a condo (and hopefully in Steveston).
Oh.. by the way, Netchick sent me. That's just how she rolls.
"From a giant sized Monopoly game"
"Shrunken housing market"
"I knew this was an expensive place to live darling but is this really all we can afford"
"In the financial markets news is that "Tonka Toys" have taken over the manufacturer of the classic board game Monopoly"
"I knew we should not have employed that town planner in our plastics department"
Well Carmi said "You can have any colour you want as long as it is yellow..."
Landlubbers
Groupies
Real, a state
Band of gold
Real(i)ty show
Free, to a good home
Mass appeal
(I totally forgot to enter my captions from last week, but loved the ones you choose; you DO love to take spy pictures, don't you?)
I see them all hanging out together and it looks like "Home Depot"
Housing Scrum
Hello Carmi!
Thanks for the mention!
"Cluster Housing"
"Downsizing"
"Bob the Builder's Place"
Terri
"We all live in a yellow sub prime crisis..."
'real estate magazine box' unemployment office line
Once again, Big Bird wins Monopoly with excess housing on Sesame Street's Boardwalk.
Before I read the lettering on the sides I couldn't help but think, "another gossip column gets its start."
Then when I enlarged it I realized I was looking at "the shrinking real estate market," but it looks like someone beat me to that line. Oh, well!
The Market Cornered.
Price Collusion
Hedging Their Bets
Show and Tell
Marginalized Housing
Playground Bullies
Gated Community
Contents Sale.
Waterfront Property.
No news is good news.
Windows of Opportunity.
* The little people gathered together - it was time for school.
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* Buy one Real Estate, get one free.
* All arrows point to The Real Sky-state
* Homes for cuckoos
...in a cozy gated comunity...
really free real estate
* It's creepy and cold and ugly all around, let's huddle and keep each other warm..
* They brought us here, dumped us in the rain and took off.. what are we to do?
* Join the team, they said. See the world, they said..
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