Sometimes graffiti and street art have a short life span. Many taggers don’t care about what they are tagging over. Street art can also be “interactive” in that stickers and paste ups can get “added” to a piece. Anyone with a marker can have their say. On the bright side, new murals get painted and new paste -ups appear. And that is why I go back to the my favorite alleys every once in a while. This morning I walked the Milky Way again.
below: The Parkdale mural by Race Williams is still looking good.
below: The naked women are a bit more modestly dressed than they once were .
The most noticeable change is the fact that many pieces are now at least partially covered by greenery – small shrubs and tall weeds have proliferated and are looking quite healthy.
below: This lion is looking more and more like the king of the jungle even as the words faded and peel.
below: The small aliens at the top of the building are now in the shade of a fast growing tree.
below: And the larger aliens on the fence really need a hair cut now.
below: A large pink peony (at least that’s what it looks like)
below: The fence around the garden.
Previous Milky Way posts
Back to the Milky Way – Sept 2015
Walking the Milky Way – Oct 2014
as I walk Toronto 
I had never heard of Milky Way Alley before and of course had to look it up. Love the name, love the photos 🙂
More and more Toronto alleys have names now. Some of them are quite fun. There’s Memory Lane and Cowbird Lane and more that i can’t recall at the moment
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