Wednesday, November 16, 2022

#10YearsOn - downtown destruction

Overgrowth
March 2012
London, ON
This photo originally shared on Written Inc.


I've been sharing my words and images online for a while. Everything I post to Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter ends up on my circa-2004 blog, Written Inc.

Yes, blogging is yesterday's news, but there's something, I don't know, comforting about having one spot where all your stuff goes. Like a digital journal of life. And I’d rather not leave my digital footprint solely in the hands of Elon and Mark. Playground. Ball. You know.

So every once in a while, usually when Planet Earth gets too rowdy, I wander through the archives. I'll be sharing them under the #10YearsOn hashtag because...well, not everything needs a reason.

This time out, I look back on a wander through the backlots of our city’s downtown core. It was downtrodden then, and I imagine it would be even worse now. Still, even the crumbling walls covered with dying ivy revealed the brilliantly colorful vision of a long-gone artist.

Window on a crumbling landscape

No one knows how many more treasures lie buried in the shadows of a rough-at-the-edges part of town. We just have to have enough curiosity to seek them out.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.

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