Edmonton: wild or not wild? The park is in between a British or Chinese groomed park and just grass/trees/pathways that are more wild. It feels like a lame attempt to appear modern and urban.
The space is too large= we must make it intimate or else use the vastness to advantage
Chinese garden features a 2007 gift of the Toi Shan society in commemoration of Chinese immigration. It features mutilated stone animals of the zodiac- rabbit with chewed ear, snake tongue chopped off, earless rat, sheep with no head or tail. All are shat on, labels pried off, or broken. 4 stools sit, showing the gluemark where a marble table once stood. Like the various knobs, it has been stolen and removed.
The rose garden is a postcolonial copy complete with memorial and dedication stones.
Rich condos overlook the areas where the poor hang out and the middle classes jog and walk through.
The Transcanada Trail Capital Region Pavilion is nothing more than an excuse to post sponsorship ads. Completely barren, containing not even a bench (unless that was stolen as well?)
Joggers engage in the duty of staying in shape.
Ducks
Rocks
Traffic
Roadwork in perpetuity (not ready yet!)
Chain link fence
path beginning
bully girls calling me (they think I am a boy)
Detours
FAst flowing river- how did the voyageurs pul it off?
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