What You're Missing

Here in Toronto, if you don't look up, you might be missing the CN Tower. It looms high above everything that's taking place in the city far below. Cars, bicycles and pedestrians navigate busy streets. Corner grocers re-stock fresh fruits and vegetables. Sidewalk patios bustle during breakfast, lunch and dinner. And in the midst of it all, tourists take high-speed elevators to the top of the CN Tower, once the highest free-standing structure in the world (if memory serves, we think it's now #2).

As tourists look down, long-time residents sometimes forget to look up. You can see the CN Tower from pretty much anywhere in the city -- it's so ubiquitous, every now and then you forget it's there. We took this photo from a side street in Toronto's downtown, just above Queen Street West, where the activity of busy fashion stores quickly gives way to surprisingly quiet residential streets. Here, just a little off the beaten path, the CN Tower seems a little smaller than usual, framed by a common home and the tree in its backyard.

A little reminder that sometimes, you don't know what you're missing.

Photo credit Joe Middleton 2018