as I walk Toronto

It’s early April and we’re all tired of winter but it lingers on.   How are you coping?  Yes, you!

below: Is this wishful thinking?  or maybe just a little too optimistic?

below: Spring is in the air?  They forgot the question mark.   Is the cat reacting to the disconnect between the sign and the reality? … or maybe  its expression is because it’s just realized that it’s sitting beside a book about Justin Trudeau?

These were the only signs of spring that I saw yesterday as I walked although I noticed that someone was trying to cheer things up.  Not sure how long these have been sitting outside.  They’re looking a little weather worn and grubby.  Hope may be wearing a bit thin?

below: Elsewhere yellow birdies were playing hockey.

Spring was elusive but what I did spot were a couple of stikmen that I don’t remember seeing before.   I also noticed more smiley hearts popping up in unexpected places again. First, some of the hearts…

below: Cool Woodstock makes an appearance too (a yellow birdie of a different kind).  I don’t think she’s too happy to have a bird sitting on her head.

below: The guitar player is now playing with heart.

And the stikmen….

below: Instead of wooden, this stikman is a drawing in a frame.

below: Is that a little orange head of a stikman in the bent frame?

….. and then back inside for some warmth!

I  will leave you with one last look at a window full of yellow chicks and Easter bunnies, hope for spring (Hope springs eternal? Hopes of spring are eternal?).