Ants

Location: The fourth floor of the Renaissance Hotel, Toronto, Ontario

Description: The roof of the hotel in the foreground with Blue Jays Way cutting a diagonal below and buildings all around.

Story: He looked over from the picnic basket and admired the small mound of dirt they had built. It must be like a mountain to them, building something so much bigger than they were. Just yesterday he had tried to emulate those ants, digging a huge hole and making a pile nearby. He kept at it for hours, his parents just happy that he was digging in the garden, but it never got much higher than his head.

They would have spent weeks on it, that colony, all working together for a common goal. The street had been repaved recently and he saw people working together for weeks as well, building something they all could use. He even got his friends to build a treehouse with him over the summer. Great things could be accomplished together.

One time on TV, he saw how much work they put into their home, how many rooms there were, connecting back and forth in a maze beneath the surface. It was like an apartment building, having all those people living together, but they had built their home as well. Maybe he could talk to other people at school, and get them to build their own treehouses in the woods. They could connect them with bridges, build a whole community up there. Sky ants.