Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

I came across this interesting tower in Düsseldorf, Germany, while surfing through flickr night images. It is the world’s largest “decimal clock“. Maybe Rick Mercer’s “metric time” scam in his Talking to American sketch wasn’t so far fetched?

While I was in Toronto last month, I took several photos from the CN Tower. I’ve been twice before, and usually try to time it so I have both day and night photos in the same trip, but this time it was solidly dark by the time I arrived.

I shared my binoculars (which I cleverly remembered to bring this trip) with some other tourists. We could see ice skaters on the rink in Nathan Phillips Square in front of the new City Hall which are the curvy buildings behind the towering red glowing hotel in this photo. The extreme distance made the people look like microbes through a microscope eyepiece.

- CBC Toronto, adored by all Canadians ;-) It’s truly the centre, of the center of the universe. And no wonder they’d rather cover Argo games over Roughrider games, the SkyDome (Rogers Center) is right across the street!

- A windmill in the distance, next to an indoor arena (Ricoh - James confirmed).

Saskatchewan isn’t known for its towers, but a common site in small towns and cities are a water tower. Mark has an excellent collection of Canadian towers, and I’ve even contributed a few photos of my own.

Here’s a nice photo of Parliament Hill, from the Peace Tower.