A little dead end alley in Kensington and the graffiti I found there.
A chain link fence at the end of the alley.
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I love the way that the faces are incomplete compared to rest of the anatomy.
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The seemingly endless battle between graffiti artists and those who wantonly tag over their work.
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squares pieced together
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hidden doorway
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steaming
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chaos with stickers and scribbles
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grimacing skull by the fence
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Sonya’s Park, a small green space on Oxford Street.
On the east side of the park there is a brick wall that had a number of scenes painted on it. The pictures depicted a trip to Kensington market, circa 1885. Some of the murals remain intact while others have been defaced.
Oxford St., from the park.
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Trip to Kensington market, circa 1885. The first of the murals on the brick wall on the east side of the park.
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Once upon a time there was a mural there. Sadly, taggers have made their presence known.
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buying fruit and vegetables, circa 1885
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stop not taggin art & watch yourself
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at the back of the park
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diamonds of colour
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Plea no the, Elder abuse, and Don’t worry CAMH is only a block away, all on one sign
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One house in the city.
508 in the middle
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eyes on the street
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bird contemplating a wire
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outdoor plumbing
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characters on the north wall
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For the next few months I will be in Peru.
I have started another blog for my Peruvian adventures. It can be found at http://caminandoPeru.wordpress.com
Flew away, missed the ice storm.
Any posts for the next while will be on the page titled ‘Turkey’. The link is https://mcfcrandall.wordpress.com/turkey or you can find it on the menu near the top of this page.
If I have a few minutes and the hotel has wifi, I’ll keep adding to the Turkey page.
In the meantime, have a great Christmas!
Take care. Keep smiling. 🙂
Tarps, ropes and metal cradles.
Lovingly and carefully stored boats, asleep for the winter awaiting spring and the start of a new sailing season. Canada, where the sailing season is short.
Red and blue Gecko in hibernation.
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A chilly trio in white, blue and yellow.
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Whiteness on a winter afternoon when the sun is trying to shine through the clouds.
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All tied up and radiating griminess.
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Rays of sun try to brighten the day.
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Perched on shore and looking out over the lake, but stuck behind barbed wire.
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Although snow and ice are an integral part of a Canadian winter, it is always interesting to find them in different settings. For example, icicles forming along the seams in the hull of a boat that is up for the winter.
Braided Ice.
More Icicles
Looking southward from under a blanket of snow.
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Serenity carefully tucked in and tied down to wait out the cold.
With many thanks to Stephen for giving me access to the yacht club for a few minutes this afternoon!
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Playing with lights, colours, and reflections at Brookfield Place.
Bay St., south of Wellington
From the bottom up, Allen Lambert Galleria, the 6 storey atrium of Brookfield Place, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
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Looking upwards, Christmas Ring Tree, Brookfield Place.
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Playing with reflected light from Christmas decorations.
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Horizontal abstraction of light and colour.
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Walking on thin ice?
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And now the lights are purple…. The lights change colours after a few minutes – purples, reds, greens, and blues.
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Photography under the purple lights.
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I didn’t see the electrical outlet when I took this photo. I was just attracted to the tiny squares of light by my feet.
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One cold Saturday evening, during a snowstorm, in downtown Toronto
Snow, lots of blowing snow!
Snow on the roads and snow blowing across the streets.
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A dance of snow and light choreographed by the wind.
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Ladies of the night – all dressed up but nowhere to go.
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Shadows playing in the drifts of snow.
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It wouldn’t be a Toronto street unless there was construction on it somewhere, even on the snowiest nights.
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With the shorter days of December come the lights of Christmas to brighten the longer hours of darkness.
The photos below were all taken in St. James Park.
St. James Cathedral through the snow as twilight falls.
Shining
Spots of colour contrast with the plain grey of the bare tree branches against the grey late afternoon sky.
Snow covered benches await a warmer day.
Colour, light, and shadow. St. James Park trees in the snow.
More lights…. a snow covered path through St. James park.
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at least along Queen Street West……
Christmas is going to the dogs, and cats.
He knows when you’ve been naughty……
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Rudolph the red nose cat doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
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A very merry pantone Christmas in 15-5519 aka turquoise, their colour of the year in 2010.
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Both hot and cold on display for a very, very, merry Christmas!
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The suitman mural is on a railway underpass on Dupont St., just west of Lansdowne Ave. It covers the walls on both sides of the street.
It was first painted and funded with $2000 received from the City of Toronto’s Clean and Beautiful program. But after Rob Ford was elected mayor and began his “clean up” campaign, it was painted over with dull grey paint. Rather silly considering that Joel Richardson was paid by the city to paint it in the first place. Late in October 2011 it was replaced with a similar mural. It took six weeks to repaint, 25 gallons of paint and 100 large cans of spray paint.
Most of the photos taken were taken on 30 November 2013. Some photos are from a two years previous and they are marked as such.
The picture on the south side depicts business men lined up to form mathematical equation.
The eastern part of the equation. That’s not a check mark on the right of the photo, it’s part of a long division sign.
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divide then multiply
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Well suited for a close up. (Photo taken Nov 2011)
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To the east of the bridge.
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X and + towards the bridge. (Photo taken November 2011)
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This photo was taken from across the street – looking through the concrete pillars that support the railway bridge.
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Immediately west of the underpass.
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This is one of the photos that was taken two years ago. I have included it for comparison purposes as the man wearing the gas mask is no longer part of the mural. Instead, three sitting women have been added at the bottom of the letter X. The next picture shows this part of the mural as it looks now.
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To the west of the train tracks. Note the absence of the man with the gas mask and the addition of the three women.
Photo taken November 2011.
“And do thy duty even if it be humble, rather than another’s even if it be great. To die in one’s duty is LIFE: to live in another’s is death.” [quote from the Bhagavad Gita, a 700 verse scripture that part of the Hindi epic ‘Mahabharata’]
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Looking back under the bridge, following the arrow.
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Photo taken November 2011
“This at least would be the case in a society where things were left to follow their natural course, where there was perfect liberty, and where there was perfect FREE both to choose what occupation we thought proper and to change it as we thought PROPER. THE whole of the advantages and disadvantages of different employments of labour stock, must in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality” [quote from “Wealth of Nations” by Adam Smith]
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More information on this mural: http://joelrichardson.com/2011/10/
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