as I walk Toronto

blue October skies

Posted: November 2, 2014 in general Toronto
Tags: autumn colours, balconies, CN Tower, condos, downtown, foilage, highrises, leaves, reflections, shadows, skyscrapers, sun, Toronto, trees, urban, washing windows, windows

Since most of the city woke up to snow flurries this morning, I thought I would take a quick look back over the past month. October was a beautiful month with many clear sunny days. The leaves on the trees turned wonderful colours this autumn and the colours lingered for a few weeks.

Blue skies, autumn colours

A man is suspended from the roof of a tall building by a rope. He has a bucket and he is washing windows. The CN Tower is close by and seems to loom in the background.

Washing windows in the shadow of the CN Tower.

Two tall condo buildings. Sun is reflecting off the balconies of the condo in background. In the foreground is a balcony with a large plant. Sun is shining directly on the plant so it looks like it is in a spotlight.

Afternoon on the balcony. Condos on Blue Jays Way.

older row houses in the background along with a tree covered in yellow and gold leaves. A large tree that has already lost its leaves is in the foreground.

Clarence Square

Tall light grey brick apartment building with cirved bluish balconies. On one wall is the large shadow of another building with balconies.

Shadows of building on building, Roehampton Ave.

When skeletons come out of the closet

Posted: October 30, 2014 in general Toronto
Tags: black, bloody, bones, city, decorations, fallen, gauze, halloween, hands, hanging, October, reaching, silent, skeletons, skull, spooky, white, yard

It must be late October, the time of year when skeletons start appearing around town!

Skeletons hanging from branches of a tree in a frontyard.

Just hanging around.

A skeleton is sitting on a front porch along with a number of pumpkins

Keeping the kids off the front lawn!

Skull & hand bones attached to some wispy black fabric makes a wonderful scary flying phantom when hung in a tree on a breezy day

He flies through the air

A skull, some black cloth and some billowing white gauze, all hanging from a tree,

Left where he was hung

A skeleton at the base of a tree. The legs of the skeleton are bent backwards. It looks like it has just fallen.

Hey there! Could you help a guy up?

A skull, two boney hands and some black cloth and some billowing white gauze, all hanging from a tree,

Looking for a hug?

The upper part of a skeleton with its arms reaching out.

Please sir, I want more.

return of the zombies

Posted: October 26, 2014 in events
Tags: baby, blood, cameras, clown, costumes, eye balls, gash, nathan phillips square, photographers, photos, poses, scary, selfies, skull, spooky, Toronto, undead, wigs, zombie walk, zombies

….. they keep coming back!
Zombie Walk 2014, Nathan Phillips Square

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walls in the abstract

Posted: October 25, 2014 in abstract, general Toronto
Tags: abstract, blue, bricks, buildings, city, concrete, grey, houses, orange, paint, reflections, stone, Toronto, urban, walls, windows, wood

Just a collection of walls that caught my interest as I walked in the past few weeks.

reflections in the window of the OPG (Ontario Power Generation) building, a curved glass structure.

diamond blues

patches, cracks, and drips under a bridge

close up of a maroon coloured drain pipe down the side of a house that is red and orange.

vibrant orange with drain pipe

Four storey brick building with large windowes with rounded arched shaped tops. Yellow brick details around the tops of the windows.

Pattern of arches at George and Adelaide

close up of a concrete wall that has black paint (or something like black paint) spilled on the lower part of it.

black and white under grey

Close up showing part of a wood pallet that is leaning against a grey brick wall.

wood on brick, browns and greys

gallery hanging

Posted: October 20, 2014 in galleries
Tags: art gallery, Art Square gallery, cafe, Dundas St. West, gallery, getting ready, hanging, photographers, photography

Preparing for the Toronto Photowalks Exhibit

20 October – 2 November

Art Square Cafe & Gallery, 334 Dundas St. West (across from the AGO)

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Toronto Photowalks Group Exhibition

Art Square Cafe & Gallery

under Mt. Pleasant Road

Posted: October 17, 2014 in general Toronto
Tags: Blythwood Ravine, bridge, Burke Brook, face, graffiti, head, lylith lyl, man, mt pleasant, north toronto, numbered, street art, Toronto, under the bridge, yellow ochre

Between Lawrence and Eglinton, Mt. Pleasant Road passes over Burke Brook and Blythwood Ravine Park.
This is the graffiti that I saw under that bridge.

graffiti under a bridge - black and white picture of a man in jacket and tie and a hat with a brim. The top part of his face is in shadow from the hat brim. He iis shown only from the shoulders up

eyes in shadow

graffiti under a bridge - line drawing of a man's head with dotted lines dividing it into sections that are numbered

the numbers of a man

graffiti under a bridge - black and white line drawings of leaves and other biological looking creatures or things. The words 'yellow ochre' and 'lylith lyl' also appear'

flora and fauna, lylith lyl

graffiti under a bridge - yellowish gold frame with large line drawing of a smiling person.

crooked smile in frame

graffiti under a bridge - Kat Will you Marry Me? was the original words on the wall. It is partially obscured by a tag.

Did Kat marry him?

Ultra Church

Posted: October 17, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locations
Tags: alley, chicken, Church St., ear rings, faces, glittery, jewelry, lane, LGBT, men, mural, necklace, party, people, public art, smiles, sparkly, street art, Toronto, ultra church, women

A mural near Church and Wellesley

Most of the mural.

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worldpress photo exhibit

Posted: October 15, 2014 in events, locations
Tags: Brookfield Place, display, exhibit, looking, people, photographs, Toronto

World Press Photo 14,
a traveling exhibition of prize-winning photographs assembled by World Press Photo.

At the Allen Lambert Galleria, Brookfield Place  until October 21st

These pictures were taken from drones that were flying over playing fields. The shadows of the players look like they are the people.

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Photo on the far left is “A flock of Guillemots (Uria aalgae) in a snowstorm in Vardo, Norway” by Markus Varesvuo of Finland.

LEFT: Survivors of typhoon Haiyan march during a religious procession in Tolosa, on the eastern island of Leyte. One of the strongest cyclones ever recorded, Haiyan left 8,000 people dead and missing and more than four million homeless after it hit the central Philippines. Photo by Philippe Lopez of France.
CENTER: A woman reacts in disappointment after access to see former South Africa President Nelson Mandela was closed on the third and final day of his casket lying in state, outside Union Buildings in Pretoria, South Africa. Photo by Markus Schreiber of Germany.
RIGHT: A group of blind albino boys photographed in their boarding room at the Vivekananda mission school for the blind in West Bengal, India. Photo by Brent Stirton of South Africa.