Scenes from Budapest-Keleti station

Just a day after international train services resumed at Budapest-Keleti station, whigh allowed thousands of Mideast migrants access to Germany and Austria, a few of those migrants remained to wait for their turn to leave. This short video is a snapshot of what the scene there was like Sunday morning.

Sweet Marilyn

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Sweet Marilyn

Simple carbohydrates can make complex art. This cool portrait of Marilyn Monroe, lovingly constructed with dozens upon dozens of jelly beans, is in the front window of a Calgary candy store — appropriately enough.

Because you can never have too many puns with your coffee

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Better latte than never

Recently spotted outside a coffee shop (where else!) in Calgary.

Where buffalo once roamed …

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Animal instinct

… now they’re only found in such pieces of art as painting and statues, including this one behind the old Court of Appeals building in downtown Calgary.

Walk and talk

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Walk and talk

Just another evening on the Peace Bridge in Calgary. It’s definitely a popular place to be: It was around 10 p.m. that day and I had to wait several minutes for the bridge to clear sufficiently for a decent photo.

Glow and flutter

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Glow and flutter

Night falling on one of the war memorials along Memorial Dr. just west of 10 St. N.W. in Calgary.

Skyward

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Skyward

The sunset light has a cool (or is that warm?) effect on the oxidizing art at Poppy Plaza, Calgary.

Summer camp

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Meaning of camp

Found this drawing hanging on the wall of a Calgary coffee shop last month, ahead of a fundraising effort to send kids to summer camp.

Vestiges of another era

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I've been everywhere

This sign, hung on the counter of London Barbers in Kensington, might be one of the last (if not the only) remaining visible reminder of the old Lido café, just down the street on 10 St. N.W. in Calgary.
The Lido site is now a big hole in the ground, ready to welcome a new multi-storey residential building that will bear the same name.

Blooming

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Beads of water

Snapped this as I was out for a walk after the rain in Calgary this weekend.