as I walk Toronto

This blog post starts with donuts… who doesn’t like donuts?!  Mediterranean?  Well, that’s veggies on a cream cheese icing.  DeSotos restaurant starting making and selling donuts as a way of surviving Covid lockdowns.   The lemon bomb was delicious!

below: Living the van life? Or living in the past?

below: Unfortunately this Coca Cola sign at St. Clair and Winona was tagged over last year.  The vacant lot will soon be yet another condo development.

below: Looking east, northeast corner of St. Clair West and Alberta  – a new condo, one being built, and one in the very beginning stages.

below: Milking the cow on the sidewalk.

below: Dinosaurs playing in the yard.

below: And Woody, Gumby, Pokey, and their friends hanging out on the porch.

below: But Wonder Woman doesn’t approve

below: Another front yard, this one decorated with many light fixtures on poles, or hanging from a tree.

below: A bright red door and matching car beside her.

below:  Most of the murals painted a few years ago in Feel Good Lane are still there.  This lane runs parallel to St. Clair to the north between Atlas and Arlington.

below: Also in Feel Good Lane is a mural featuring Emily May Rose’s cute but naughty little green raccoons.

below: St. Clare’s RC Church

below: Hanging baskets of pink and red petunias across the street from the St. Clair Fruit Market with Muskoka chairs in a makeshift roadside patio.

below: El Eden Ecuatoriano – it seems like everything Ecuadorian is available here especially music and food (in an area that has a growing South American ethnicity).

below: Way up high, a mouse surveys the scene while people wait at the street car stop.

below: Hanging out in front of Buy and Sell.

below: TTC streetcar stop.  All the stops have artwork across the top of the shelters.

below: A white metal railing on the porch and flowers in the well kept yard.

below: Regal Heights neighbourhood

below: A unique hood ornament!

below: Or, line up your favorite little stuffies on the front dash.

below: On a door at Wychwood Barns.

below: I’m not sure what’s happening here but it looks like an unhappy drunk llama behind bars. I wonder what its backstory is?

below: A. A. Milne’s words of wisdom: “If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening be patient.  It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”

below: Always look on the bright side of life.  Can you say it aloud without breaking into the Monty Python song?

With thanks to Georgette and Mondo for being my tour guides on this walk!