This year there were five installations at Woodbine Beach for the annual ‘Winter Stations’ event. Yesterday, February 18th, was the opening day. It was also a holiday Monday, Family Day, and lots of people were at the beach.
below: Forest of Butterflies by Luis Enrique Hernandez of Mexico.
below: The lake was very wavy and rough on Family Day. There was lots of water spraying onto the piles of snow and ice as the waves crashed against the shore.
below: ‘Above the Wall’ designed by Americans Joshua Carel and Adelle York. Climb the stairs and meet people on the platform at the top.
below: ‘Chairavan’ by a team from Sheridan College.
below: ‘Mind Station’, designed by Tomasz Piotrowski and Łukasz Chaberka from Poland.
below: Interior view – stand on the stumps to look out holes in the roof.
below: One of the views from the roof.
below: ‘Cavalcade’, designed by a group from Toronto: Victor Perez-Amado, John Nguyen, Anton Skorishchenko, Abubaker Bajaman + Stephen Seunwon Baik
below: The construction phase
Apparently, this was the 5th year for ‘Winter Stations’. Previous years ‘Winter Stations’ blog posts:
Flotsam and Jetsam and others (2017)
Warming with everyone and their dog – almost (2018)
as I walk Toronto 
I can always count on you to have great photos from an event like this one. While the splash of colour on the beach was a pleasure to see, I found the installations rather underwhelming.
My favourite moment while visiting was at the Mind Station when a small child and I both poked our heads through the roof at the same time beside each other. We both burst out laughing. I think that was the whole purpose of the station … the unexpected ‘meeting of minds’ above the fray 🙂
I’ve always found that each year the installations are varied – i.e. some good, some not so good. What I liked this year is that they are all close together. They seemed to be geared more towards “walking through” than lingering.
You can probably tell from the photos that I was there twice. The first time, Friday, they were still constructing some of the installations and there were very few people there. It was much nicer yesterday with the sun, snow, and lots of people.
I had seen your earlier photos and it looks like Monday was the nicest day.
I was surprised how many people were down there early Sunday morning when it was so cold.
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