Thunder Bay – Thursday

Overcast, light drizzle, wet snow predicted

Another piece of equipment moved INSIDE the fence.  We now have two things parked there.

Art Gallery so far

An interesting look

Not my sock

As good as it got out there

This would make a good ad for Timmy’s

A Raven.  You can tell by the tail and beak.

Major road construction here this year.  Court Street and Red River Road will be torn up.  Major improvements to the north downtown core.  I wonder had the art gallery been located in the old Eaton’s building instead of the waterfront, would that not have been better for the north core?   The former Eaton’s building is a very large structure.  There is a parkade in the downtown core a five minute walk away. Cafes, restaurants, bars, shops, all right there.  Locating the art gallery here is better  for the north core businesses.   I still do not see the advantage of placing a major city  attraction as far away from the downtown area as possible.  Cruise-ship visitors will not have to ever leave Marina Park to visit the art gallery. The same goes for Delta hotel guests  There is no easy public transit  access to the waterfront location. The nearest bus stop (Mainline)  to the waterfront site is at the corner of Cumberland and Pearl Street.  The former Eaton’s building is serviced vy several bus routes  ( Memorial, Hudson, John, Jumbo Gardens, County Park, Crosstown)

then there are the snow sculpture photos

Pagoda

Beaver House

Coin Carousel

Lighthouse

Boreal Forest

Amethyst Crystals

and then there are today’s AI art pieces

Once the quietness arrived, it stayed and spread in Estha. It reached out of his head and enfolded him in its swampy arms…sent its stealthy, suckered tentacles inching along the insides of his skull, hoovering the knolls and dells of his memory, dislodging old sentences, whisking them off the tip of his tongue

“I vividly remembered the flat black color of his eyes the last time he glared at me – the color was striking against the background of his pale skin and his auburn hair. Today, his eyes were a completely different color: a strange ocher, darker than butterscotch, but with the same golden tone.”