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The day after Labour Day, the official end of summer get back to school day.

So here are a few photos of the lazy hazy days of this summer past…..

two sisters are hugging while having their picture taken in front of a large wire mesh heart.  The word LOVE is spelled in large wire mesh letters.  People have locked padlocks onto the wires.

summer love, in the Distillery District

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Looking down at a man who is sitting on his balcony and reading a book.  Across the street is an open hole where a new condo is being constructed

‘On a Toronto balcony’… or, ‘Looking out my window’

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A boy dress in shorts and holding a plastic bucket is watching a group of men and women practise a performance that includes long bamboo poles.

Watching performers practise at Kultura, the Filipino Arts Festival, Wychwood Barns.

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A path leads through a garden, there is a group of people sitting in the park.  The CN Tower is in the distance.

Hanging out at the Music Garden, on the waterfront.

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If you can’t beat them, join them.

No matter where I went this summer, I seemed to always find the CN Tower lurking in the background.
It photobombs a lot of pictures!  🙂

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A bright red tugboat is tied up in the foreground.  Many glass windows of many condos are in the photo.  The top of the CN tower is peaking up over the top of the condos on Toronto's waterfront.

The M.R. Kane, a bright red tugboat sits tied up at the waterfront near the foot of Spadina Ave.  The CN Tower stands tall above the condos the line Queens Quay West.

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An SUV and a red truck are parked in a parking lot.  On the left side of the picture are two walls that are covered with graffiti.  The CN Tower is above one of those walls.

behind graffiti walls in a parking lot on College Street

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Black eyed Susan flowers in the foreground, some taller buildings including the CN tower in the background.  There is also a tall thin sculpture (decorated pole?) in the picture

Trying to hide behind the sculpture in the Music Garden, waterfront

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The pink wall of faces is a fountain and it is on the left side of the photo.  People at the ex and the CN Tower are also in the photo.

…. and at the Ex too!

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The CN Tower and the Toronto skyline as seen from the east part of downtown Toronto.

Where Eastern Ave. joins Richmond Street East before they cross the Don River.

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Part of a bright red metal sculpture is in the foreground.  The CN tower is in the background (the top part of it anyhow)

Lurking under sculptures….

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Part of the stone church, St. Andrews Presbyterian, dominates the photo.  Part of a tree, the edge of a skyscraper and the CN Tower are on the right side of the photo.

Peeking out from behind St. Andrews Presbyterian Church on King St. at Simcoe.

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A different perspective on the city –

Legoland (Vaughan Mills) model of some of the buildings in Toronto

A lego model of some of the buildings in downtown Toronto

downtown Toronto, CN Tower, bank buildings, the CNE

A lego model of some of the buildings in downtown Toronto

City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square.  Streetcar tracks but not much traffic on the streets!

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Saturday, 5th October

downtown Toronto

This is only a small selection of the art installations and exhibitions that were on display that night.

part of an art installation where there are small bones hanging from the ceiling,  A man's leg is in the background

Bones, leg bones? Part of the ‘Indicator’ installation at Gareth Bate Art Projects, 401 Richmond St.
“Birds, bats, bees. Indicator species tell us when ecosystems are in peril. Bones, sugar, dripping honey – a meditation on catastrophe and connection.” The bones hung from the ceiling and the honey dripped down the walls.
Artists: Karen Abel, Jessica Marion Barr, Gareth Bate

A man looking at a series of small black & white prints in an art gallery

A timeline of the life of Conrad Black in black & white woodcut prints as shown at a gallery at 401 Richmond Street. Artist, George Walker

 

silhouettes of some people, on glowing pink and blue spheres

silhouettes
at Much Music, Queen Street West

 

The CN tower, with pink and blue lights, is in the background.  In the foreground are people taking pictures with their phones.  In the middle ground are a number of pink and blue lit spheres

phones lifted skyward

 

A woman is taking a picture of an art installation that is flat on a table.  Twelve black & white framed prints are on the wall behind her.

Black & white art made using electric currents & little wires that spun in circles.
401 Richmond Street

 

An art installation featuring pictures of bicylces.  Multicoloured.

bkies, bikes, bikes

 

A man is spray painting a piece of street art using aerosol cans of paint

spraying in the spotlight
On Dundas West near Beverley Street

 

Crowds, at night.  Light is provided by fluorescent lights that spell out a short poem.

‘The rose is without why’ by Boris Achour.
This is a short poem written by Johannes Scheffler aka Angelus Silesius, in the 17th century. The words are written with fluorescent lights and is more than 300 feet long. It was bright enough to light up the square.

 

crowds at Nathan Phillips Square on the night of Nuit Blanche.  Some people are standing on the upper level watching the crowds below.

upper level, Nathan Phillips Square

 

crowds and lights at Nathan Phillips Square.  Toronto city hall is lit with purple lights.

Nathan Phillips Square

 

Two of the art installations at Nathan Phillips Square

Nathan Phillips Square
On the left – ‘Forever Bicycles’ sculpture by Ai Weiwei lit in pink and purple. There are 3144 bicycles.
On the right – ‘Crash Cars’ by Alain Declercq consists of two driverless cars.

 

posing

posing
These metallic figures were not part of Nuit Blanche. They are part of a sculpture close to the Court House on University Ave., just north of Queen St. West.

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Late last week a friend and I were walking to the Kensington area to take some pictures. We almost didn’t get there because we were distracted by a number of small alleys along the way. This is a small sample of what we saw that day.

A mural of the Great Wall of China has been painted on the side of a building.  There is a hydro pole in front of it with a sign that says no dumping.

shadows on the Great Wall of China

The words, Never lose your dinosaur, are written in large yellow letters on the side of a red brick house.

Never lose your dinosaur

Black wall with a robot and heart sticker.  Someone has written the words, what's real?  what's not?on the wall as well

robot love – is it real?

A line of robot stickers on a short yellow pole in an alley

I guess one could make jokes about pole dancing robots.

buildings in an alley that have graffiti on them.  the CN Tower is in the background

in front of the CN tower

crsy tag on an old grey wood garage in an alley

on a grey and weathered wall

two storey building painted grey and purple.  The stairwell to the upper level is open.  It is painted purple.  There is an old chair on the landing.

purple entrance in the alley

graffiti image of a naked woman who is wearing an Indian feather headdress

loitering while wearing nothing except  a few feathers

Concrete block wall with the words blue, blue, blue written on it.  The sky behind is very blue.

Blue, very blue

A wall and door have been painted a maroon colour.  Someone has written the words Hi Buddy on the door.  There is a light fixture over the door but it is broken.

Hi Buddy on maroon

Black and white graffiti that says my spot

Please find your own.