Random Paint-In related post

Today was the Moss Street Paint-In (oh, I forgot: it has a corporate identity: The Toronto Dominion Paint In…). As usual, the organizers managed to arrange some deal with the weather gods and it was sunny – except for a very surreal influx of menacingly dense fog, which descended out of nowhere and just as mysteriously disappeared.

The Paint-In attracts people – lots of people. It’s kind of difficult to winnow out the few good artists in the generous display of so-so talent – and because my appetite for getting bite-back is diminished, I’ll refrain from further comment on the overall quality of the event.

Suffice it to say, the crowds are “it” on this occasion.

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There was this incident of fog, which had its strange way across the municipalities bordering the ocean. When I took my dog out later in the afternoon to Cattle Point in the Uplands, the fog obliterated distinctions between shore and sea. Compared to populated Moss Street, Cattle Point was an alien landscape:

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As it happened, a chap parked a car that sort of summed it all up for me today:

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Polka-dotted camouflage – how appropriate… But weirdness aside, I’d like access to a car like this in the event of a mega-quake: it has an axe attached to the passenger door (recommended as an earthquake kit necessity) and in general, its appearance suggests it could survive anything you throw at it.

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Drive on, Jeeves…