A wonderful abundance of fresh fruit and veggies at this time of year.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted: October 11, 2015 in general TorontoTags: apples, broccoli, carrots, celery, colours, green peppers, leeks, markets, onions, peppers, produce, radishes, red peppers, squash, tomatoes, veggies, zucchini
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Four men and a creature
Posted: August 5, 2015 in general TorontoTags: Beatrice, birdo, creature, Dundas West, Elicser, fanciful, green ears, horns, imagination, men. sunglasses, mo'life, Movember, stripes, tdot
First, the four men……
Painted on a wall at the NE corner of Dundas West and Beatrice is this Movember mural by Elicser.
It has been there since 2013.
Just to the east of that mural is a painting by birdo
Ratha yatra
Posted: July 20, 2015 in general TorontoTags: chants, colourful, dance, drums, festival, floats, hare krishna, India, parade, people, pulling, saris, South Asian, Toronto, walkers, Yonge St.
The 43rd Annual Festival of India started with a parade down Yonge Street from Bloor to Queens Quay on Saturday afternoon.
The parade is similar to an annual procession that has occurred for centuries in the city of Puri, India as part of a Hindu festival associated with the god Jagannath. Here in Toronto, as in Puri, three chariots constructed to look like temples are pulled through the streets in a procession from one temple to another. Each chariot carries a richly decorated representation of a god, first is Jagannatha (another name for Krishna or God) and then his brother Baladeva and his sister Subhadra. The chariots are pulled by people and the procession symbolizes the pulling of the Lord into our hearts.
In Puri, this Ratha-Yatra procession continues to attract over a million people every year.
In Toronto, the numbers aren’t quite that high!
below: Many people used ropes to pull the floats down Yonge Street.
below: Other people danced, walked, sang and chanted Hare Krishna mantras.
The festivities continued on Centre Island for the remainder of the weekend.
billboards at Spadina and Front
Posted: June 8, 2015 in general TorontoTags: art, billboards, bread, CONTACT, cucumber, handbag, images, parking lot, photography, rubber gloves, Spadina, sponges, Toronto
Part of CONTACT photography festival,
billboard “art” on the NE corner of Spadina and Front streets.
All the billboards are in a parking lot in what was a junky looking space to begin with.
below: Yellow rubber gloves with the fingers tucked back in…
to look like they’ve just been taken off a pair of hands?
below: The body of the handbag is a loaf of bread.
below: Clusters of sponges. At first I thought they were candies.
Supported by Pattison Outdoor Advertising and Nikon Canada.
“Challenging how people perceive and interact with images in public spaces”
“Each of the artists destabilizes the conventions of advertising and the cultural codes associated with consumer lifestyles.”
Me? I’ll call them dull and underwhelming clutter. Too harsh? Perhaps.
I’ll leave the verdict up to you.
winter trees
Posted: March 10, 2015 in general Toronto, natureTags: alley, bare branches, blue sky, branches, buildings, city, deciduous trees, garages, houses, lane, laneway, no leaves, residences, shadows, snow, street scenes, Toronto, trees, urban, winter
Bare branches, snow, and sometimes blue sky –
things that usually only come together in winter.
Views that are hidden behind summer leaves are revealed in winter’s barrenness.
Trees take on a different character when they have no leaves
and they cast a different shadow.
Toronto is a city of trees. They are everywhere, and a surprising number of them are large, mature trees.
When we think of trees we usually think of shade on a hot day, or maybe the joy that spring buds bring, or maybe the rustle of fallen leaves in the autumn. The winter tree is often overlooked but they too add to the character of this city.
a few guys hanging out
Posted: February 11, 2015 in general TorontoTags: black and white, bright colours, deflated, faces, fingers, garage doors, graffiti, hands, happy faces, heads, men, mouth, multicoloured, nose, painted, SAnta Claus, street art, Toronto, urban, wheatpaste, winter
A few guys that I encountered the other day.
city under siege
Posted: January 2, 2015 in general TorontoTags: building, closures, CN Tower, condos, cones, construction, cranes, downtown, fence, photos, repair, road closed, roads, signs, site, skyscrapers, Toronto, traffic, trucks
Construction, it’s everywhere.
I’m not sure if it’s my imagination but 2014 seemed to be the year that the city was torn apart in the name of changes, development and/or improvements.
on break
How many cranes are in the sky?
looking towards the CN Tower from Soho St., just north of Queen West.
Yet another crane at work, on Adelaide West.
How many kilometres of road have been dug up or blocked off?
Yonge north of Davisville one summer day. Removing a crane that was used in condo construction.
Near Eglinton West subway station. Construction of the Eglinton LRT affects traffic on Eglinton Ave.
Adelaide St. West
Another street under repair. York St., looking south towards Queen St. and Richmond St.
How many holes have been dug?
Dufferin and Adelaide
How many orange and black cones adorn our streets?
New streetcar tracks at King and Sumach.
How many kilometres of fencing have been erected?
double fenced
How many years will it take to finish Union Station?
Looking west on Front St. The renovation and upgrade of Union Station and it’s impact on Front Street has been ongoing for a long time now. Maybe one day it will be finished!
What construction will 2015 bring?
wandering away
Posted: December 17, 2014 in general TorontoTags: excuses, holiday, Malta, sunny, warmer
We’ve disappeared again, escaped.
This time we’ve gone looking for Marys in Malta……
finding green in the alleys
Posted: November 30, 2014 in abstract, general TorontoTags: alley, brick, cracked, dead leaves, garage, gates, graffiti, hinges, lane, metal, painted, rust, tags, Toronto, weeds, wood
The other day I walked a number of lanes and alleys, Max Hartstone Lane, Ken Lai Lane, and Oscar Ryan Lane, to name a few.
I’m not sure if it was the greyness of the day or the preponderance of ugly tags but I was feeling rather uninspired as I walked. An interesting green wall caught my eye so I started searching more out green things. This is the result of that search.
sugar beach
Posted: November 25, 2014 in general Toronto, locations, waterfrontTags: beach, city, empty, grey, lake, Lake Ontario, no people, November, park, pink umbrellas, reflections, sand, Toronto, umbrellas, urban, waterfront
Sugar Beach on a November afternoon.
A time when you have your choice of seats to sit and watch the clouds race past and the wind whip the branches of the trees around.
Late afternoon beside grey Lake Ontario.
The first hint of sunset appears in the sky.
Darker skies over the city as the rain clouds pass by.
With the city behind.
The low sun of late afternoon is reflected off the umbrella stands as well as the glass of the Corus building behind.
as I walk Toronto 