Posts Tagged ‘dandelions’

turning green…

Posted: May 15, 2023 in graffiti and street art, nature
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… with touches of pinks and other colours.  Spring time!

Here are a few photos of spring in the city that I collected as I walked in the past few weeks.

CN tower behind spring buds and new growth on trees

below: Spring time … when all the bugs and insects come out!

a large stuffed caterpillar on a deck of a house

below: As do the trees….  including this massive pink magnolia in full bloom.

a large pink magnolia tree in a front yard

a house with a large white blossom tree in the front yard

below: Flowers on a grave

York cemetery, tombstones in foreground, tall buildings of North York in the background

Ryerson university, Balzacs coffee, yellow umbrellas outside on spring day, people sitting outside, some people walking past

a man sits on a red bench on Pape Ave., East York

Pinehills cemetery, stones in the oreground, blossom trees in spring in the middle, and apartment building with blue features in the background

two houses on a street, with condo in background, spring, double car garages, white brick, black roofs, large tree in front

front yard, black metal trellis, blossom trees, one yellow tulip, fake stone front of house, stone walkway, brown wood fence, single white door for front door

a man wearing only shorts lies on a bench

back staircase of a brick building, upper apartment, with blue and pink planters on the stairs

metal box on sidewalk, bell box, painted with a monarch butterfly in a field of pale purple daisies

lots of dandelions in the grass by a sidewalk in front of a wall with street art on it, apartment building behind.

pussy willow in the foreground, tall buildings in the background

big old willow tree in spring in front of two houses

house with pale pink siding on upper floor, spring

walls, more walls

Posted: June 28, 2017 in abstract, windows and walls
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This blog post is part of my continuing fascination with walls and the other things that you see on walls such as windows, shadows, pipes, bars, and other architectural details.  I like to look at how the elements interact visually and how they come together to form compositions.  Sometimes they tell a story and other times they are just an abstract picture.   Here are a few that I have collected over the past few months.   The first one in the group is a photo that I took this morning; it was the prompt that led to this post.

below: the contrast of red, black, and right angled yellow

red wall with black door and yellow pipes

below: blue from the inside, shadows on the outside

grey wall with peeling paint, small window with metal bars and a blue board covering the inside of the widow, telephone pole with shadow, metal vent in the wall

below: yellow pipe, orange concrete

bright yellow pipe against a bright orange wall, with shadow.

below: a window seat

bright red wall with window. A chair is in the window, also reflections of chinese signs, number 52 on the wall

below: frosted reflections

hazy reflection of a window and a grey wall

below: from a different angle, still a wall

on an angle, rusty brown coloured wall with horizontal windows on a white section

below: nailed links where the hinge once was

chain link fence nailed to a bright blue wood fence, corrugated plastic behind the chain link

below: aging shingles and plywood

grey and rust brown shingles cover most of a wall with two windows that have been boarded over with plywood that is peeling, three basement windows with pink trim

below: yellow people and books above and dandelion specks of yellow below

dandelions grow against a concrete wall that has large yellow panels on the upper part

below: dollar signs in the winter

grey concrete wall with window, someone has drawn a dollar sign on the wall, leafless shrub growing against the wall, winter time

below: cracked and peeling

yellow wood door with peeling paint, red gate, also with peeling paint, up close of parts of them

below: vertical reflections, horizontal grooves

horizontal window in a wall with horizontal grooves

below: open days a week and empty frames

4 nespaper boxes lined up on a sidewalk in front of a beige wall, store, with sign that says open days a week.

below: painted square shining in the sun

partly hidden by shadow, brick wall with reddish painted square on it.

below: At 972 and 972A, a hidden doorway and a trophy in the window.

brick wall with recessed doorway on the left and window on the right. There is a trophy in the window

below: rectangles, diamonds, and trapezoids

trapezoid sections on a concrete exterior wall

below:  a deep red curtain and a few exposed bricks

window with deep red curtain, grey painted brick wall, lower basement window

below: The last few pictures are of this wall and the ghost remains of a house that once stood beside it.

side of a building with the ghost remains of the house that once adjoined it.

below: (16″) 2 steps from landing

wall with patched brick and concrete sections, also words written in marker

wall with sections of brick and plaster. Plaster covers what once was a doorway

old exterior wall, brick, mortar, plaster

Previous blog posts about walls:
1.  wall compositions (Nov 2015)
2. walls in the abstract (Oct 2014)

St. Enochs Square

Posted: July 10, 2014 in graffiti and street art, locations
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St. Enochs Square, between Massey Hall and the back of the stores facing Yonge St., just south of Shuter St.

This mural was painted about a year ago as part of a project to rejuvenate this alley.

entrance to laneway, red brick building on the left (Massey Hall), mural painted on the wall on the right. Mural shows a woman & a boy blowing the seeds from white puffy dandelions.

entrance to St. Enochs Sq. on Shuter St.

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A woman is holding an infant and a small child. Another child is clinging to her. A man is to her right and a girl is to her left. The infant is ugly and may not really be an infant but instead be a little roly poly old man... or a hybrid of the two

left side of the mural


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a large black and white cat is looking at the viewer. It is wearing a little crown. Beside the cat is a boy in a blue and white striped shirt who is blowing the seeds off a puffy white dandelion.

blowing dandelions

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panorama view of the whole mural

panorama of the mural


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