The post from yesterday (below) and today (above) were both taken about two days before christmas.  I had taken a little trip out to the retail hub at the northwestern corner of the city.  The place was a frenzy of retail activity.  Parking lots and shopping carts were packed.  People were very impatient and inattentive (I and my car were almost hit a couple of times by people being impatient and/or inattentive).  But across  the street from all this frenzy, was almost a different world.  If you know the area, you’ll know that its the site of a former big box store (closed when the company shifted it’s focus to it’s other brand of retail stories in Canada).  It’s been empty for around a year now I think and is kind of an eerie place.  While I walked about the store and the parking lot I got this feeling as if something were wrong, it felt as though I was in some post-apocalyptic time and I should have been on the look out for zombies.