

WELCOME TO AMBULATORY CARE, Windsor Regional Hospital, Windsor On. Ca., originally uploaded by photographerpainterprintmaker.
Scanning my sketchbook.
These were done today while waiting for Sheldon’s appointment with the skin Doc. I probably should have upped the contrast on the second one so you could see it better. They are both apr. 4×6
To people who’ve lived in Windsor for a long time, this hospital is referred to as Met Hospital or The Met.
There were two elderly couples across the room from us. Their conversations were quite interesting. The man in this sketch worked in the Gold mines. His wife was in the military, where she learned to drink beer. But, neither one drinks anymore.
The gentleman in the lower right of the first page of sketches was also a miner up in Sudbury. He talked about the number of men who would go down into the mines together and how the rapid descent made your heart jump. He and his wife reminisced about the cabin they bought and renovated as each child came along. When she first saw the cabin she exclaimed to her husband “What did you buy?!”
Their conversation reminded me of how I felt about the small house Sheldon and I bought when we were first together. We paid $12,500., and it was located in an alley that ran between Chatham St E. and University St E. Take a look at the google street view below. See that tiny house in the ally? Well that was our first home. I walked in the front door, and there was the most horrid hand painted mural of a waterfall on the living room wall. It was heated by a small gas space heater. I liked to say you had to go outside to change your mind.
If you do a 180 on the Google image below you can see how close to Detroit, Mi. we lived. That’s the Renaissance Building across the Detroit river.
I loved reading the snippets of conversations amongst the waiting patients pictured! People-watching for me without leaving the house here!
Perhaps you pursued your artistic talents as a reprimand to, and compensation for the horrid painted mural you found in your first home with Sheldon!
Thanks Linda. I wonder if that horrible mural was my incentive?
What a surprise, discovering your other hidden talent. Painting a picture in words. One day (and if you have the mind and inspiration to do it), perhaps a book would be in order. I know I’d buy a copy.
P.S. – from 2003 to 2006, I lived in an apartment, very close to that house. (University and Glengarry , right between the old, Windsor Arena and the casino). My apartment was the renters equivalent to your home in size and sope. Liked the frenetic energy for a time, then I had to get out after a mugging and a near fatal car accident around there.
Thanks Scott. Have you seen the book my father and I collaborated on? http://home.cogeco.ca/~emacdonald6/book.htm