Tag:Tower
What could be better than standing on the sidewalk outside the Calgary Tower on an early March evening? Anything. Literally anything. That could be too harsh. The temperature was a balmy freezing that night. When I was last in Calgary, this past January, the low was -26°C/-15°F. Needless to say, I wasn’t out on the streets that night. The Calgary Tower opened to the public on June 30, 1968. At that time is was the tallest building in Canada west […]
I must have wandered south along Cotton Tree drive and crossed over Queensway since my next photos were of the Bank of China Tower. The image below was taken from pretty close to the north-east corner of the tower. Not as foggy as the day before, it was still a cloudy day and if you look closely you can see the clouds just brushing the top of the tower. The cloud cover has given the almost white sky. This iconic […]
Clearly the laundry-pole-out-the-window is a local cultural thing. I wonder what happens if you lose a garment? On a street like Pagoda Street you could probably find it in the street but if it comes off one of those poles from Block 335B, it could almost end up anywhere!
Coming back later in the afternoon we were presented with this view of Windsor Castle from the river.
