embracing peculiarities

Posted: December 10, 2021 in general Toronto
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… and the little quirks

street art mural on the side of a garage that says embrace peculiarities

below: Love on the street…

graffiti, black words written on a painted white wall say I love you still

below: And love in the bedroom.

blue lights in a store window in the shape of letters and words that say I only love my bed and my mama, I'm sorry! also reflections of street scene in the window including TTC streetcar and intersection

below: Doggie portrait in a mountain ash tree

a picture of a dog wearing glasses hanging from a mountain ash tree tree in Trinity Bellwoods park in late autumn so no leaves on the trees, just orange berries, in the background are two people sitting at a picnic table, leaves on the ground,

below: This white squirrel has found a permanent home in Trinity Bellwoods Park with a great view of the CN Tower.

white metal cut out of a squirrel hanging upside down from a branch on a tree in Trinity Bellwoods witn CN tower in the distance, houses on Gore Vale Ave facing the park in the middle distance

below: Stick figures pulling with full force

signs on a restaurant door that say pull with all your force and another sign that says pull harder. also covid signs like masks required and public health posters

exterior wall of a convenience variety store, paintings of soda pop cans with faces, arms and legs, walking,

below: Wanted – customers! No experience necessary…..

sign on sidewalk that says wanted, customers

below: Printed sideways on the wall in an alley is a portion of “Still I Rise”, a poem by Maya Angelou.

words stencilled sideways on a wall beside a garage door in an alley

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

large sign that only says fate on a black door

below: A tight squeeze

very narrow passageway between two red brick buildings with a bench at the end

below: Someone’s middle name is Style

an elderly man with long gray hair wearing a backpack with Minnie Mouse and words that say style is my middle name

below: 188 squashed in the middle

a semi detached house with one side having a peaked roof in the middle but the other side has been renovated with second storey

a man drives a fancy blue motorcycle with a woman passenger on the back

back of a house being renovated with the new door high above the ground, no stairs made yet

words on a fence between two buildings that say goda love. the word white written on the sidewalk in front of the fence along with a white heart

below: More love – Show Love in TO in Kensington

red heart made of a web of metal with white T and O in the top right corner, show love T O

a line of Tims cups on a window ledge inside a store being renovated

Comments
  1. icelandpenny says:
    December 12, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    I absolutely love all this!

    Reply

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