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IceFest 2020

Posted: February 13, 2020 in events, people
Tags: #icefest20, artist, blocks of ice, chainsaw, chisel, drill, Elton John, Garfield, hats, heart, ice, Icefest, legs, Loch gallery, metal, Patrick Amiot, people, posing, power tools, sculptures, skier, snow, winter, Yorkville

This year’s theme at the Yorkville IceFest was “Awesome 80’s” and the feature ice sculptures were all things 80’s.

below: Fabulous red heart embedded in the ice! The ice made the red shine. Needless to say, these two women weren’t the only ones who did this!

below: Leftover red balls from Christmas added to the festivities.

below: Posing with the rock ’em sock ’em robots (Cool hat too!)

below: A younger version of Elton John made an appearance at the Ice Fest

below: Posing with Garfield the cat

below: Walking on air, but so cool with the leg warmers on.

below: Driving the De Lorean

below: Most of the sculptures came already made and were set up on Saturday morning. Starting at noon, several artists began carving some sculptures – partially as a demonstration of their craft and partially as a contest for best sculpture.

below: Because it was a cold day, some time was spent warming up inside the nearby art galleries. I saw this little ski guy stuck in the snow outside Loch Gallery. Does it look like he’s shivering too? (artwork by Patrick Amiot).

below: Another wonderful creation by Patrick Amiot. I’m not sure that a hockey player (especially a Leaf?!?) should look frightened?

Santa Claus Parade 2019

Posted: November 19, 2019 in events, people
Tags: bands, clowns, cookie, costumes, cowboys, elves, floats, hats, instruments, kids, marching, Mrs. Claus, music, parade, people, reindeer, SAnta Claus, sleigh, snowmen, toy soldier, walking, wigs

Santa Claus Parade photos

below: What could be more appropriate than a few clowns with shovels to follow the police horses?

below: Crazy wabbits didn’t still in one place long enough to let me focus on them

below: Mrs. Claus

below: And at the very end, the main attraction, jolly old Santa Claus himself

Here Comes Santa Claus!

Posted: November 19, 2018 in events, people
Tags: animals, antlers, boys, bumble bees, camera, characters, clowns, costume, families, floats, flower pots, girls, gloves, hair, hats, ivy, mitts, people, red nose, reindeer antlers, SAnta Claus, smiling, tosantaparade, walking, waving, wigs

Santa Claus Parade 2018

The 114th annual Santa Claus parade filled the streets with lots of fun and excitement.

Floats, clowns, and hundreds of characters in costumes.

And people, lots of people!

And of course, Santa Claus at the end of the parade sitting in his sleigh with toys and Christmas surprises. The star of the parade, the person everyone came to see.

When Irish feet were dancing

Posted: March 20, 2017 in events, people
Tags: bands, banners, bar, dancers, dog, faces, families, feet, flags, floats, green, hats, Irish, kids, men, music, musicians, oversized, parade, people, shamrock, silver Elvis, St. Patricks day, ties, women

St. Patricks Day Parade, 19 March 2017

Watching floats, bands, banners, flags, leprechauns, bagpipes, drums, dancers, hurlers, soccer players, dragons, shamrocks, leprechauns, crazy hats, green hats, green everything, but most of all, people.

How did you start the new year?

Posted: January 2, 2017 in events, people
Tags: bathing suits, beach, cold, costumes, frigid, Habitat for Humanity, hats, icy, January, Lake Ontario, New Years day, people, Polar Bear Dip, sand, shreak, snow, splash, Sunnyside Park, swimming, towels, waterfront, winter, yell

Did you do something lazy like sleep in and then stay in your jammies all day?
Did you stay home and stay warm?

I know a few people that did just the opposite! More than 60 people took the plunge and got wet, frigid cold wet that is. The 12th annual Polar Bear dip at Sunnyside Park was well attended this year and these are some of the brave and crazy people who were there (and the less brave and crazy who came to watch, support, and take pictures of the swimmers).

below: The event is a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity and over $64,000 was raised this year. Habitat for Humanity had a team who participated, they could be spotted wearing orange T-shirts and orange hard hats.

#dothedip | #topolarbear

textiles and curios

Posted: April 26, 2016 in stores
Tags: chair, clothing, Gadabout, handbags, hats, magazines, mannequins, necklaces, old, photographs, photos, pins, Queen St. East, shoes, store, stuff, Toronto, toys, vintage, watermelon

First, a big thank you for being welcomed into Gadabout to explore and take pictures. Gadabout is a store on Queen St East and it is home to “vintage clothing, nostalgia, ephemera, textiles and curios.” It is packed full of old things. Interesting things.

below: And when I say packed, I mean it! Floor to ceiling.

below: Who could resist a watering can purse? In pink even.

below: Containers and packaging for Mennen baby powder, 40 cents for J.R. for Athlete’s Foot, Silvo silver polish, a tire repair kit, 6-12 insect repellent, and wintergreen oil. The latter is used topically to relieve muscle aches and pains. It’s labelled as a poison as it is easy to overdose on it if ingested.

below: Knights Templar black bicorne hat with feather along with matching cuff.

below: All those drawers are filled with old photographs.

below: Vintage clothing

below: Fancy handbags and shoes.

Gadabout website

buskerfest 2015

Posted: September 2, 2015 in events, people
Tags: acrobatics, balancing, buskers, clapping, Close Act, crowds, drums, eating fire, entertainment, families, festival, Fireguy, fun, funny, hats, kids, laughing, MaracaTALL, meow mur, mime, mirror family, mirrors, Mr T Oz, music, people, performances, performers, Pierre St. Pierre, pogo stick, rope, roses, sauruses, shows, stilts, tricks, Wacky Chad, yo yo, yo-yo guy

Toronto International Buskerfest for Epilepsy, 2015,
over 70 acts from Canada and around the world.

Yonge Street, College to Queen,
28th Aug through 31st Aug

below: The Funnykito Show, Dan Marques is a performer from Brazil, part magician, part mime and part clown. Here he sets up a trick whereby he tries to remove a beer bottle from the hands of a volunteer with a whip.

below: MaracaTALL, drummers on stilts

below: There were four or five members of the Mirror Family roaming around Yonge Dundas Square. They were covered from head to toe with small pieces of mirror.

below: Meow Mur, a cosmic cat from another planet

below: Max T. Oz

below: Brant the Fireguy has a burning desire to entertain and does so with his ‘O Yeah’ show.

below: Pierre St. Pierre

below: Buskerfest helps to support Epilepsy Toronto; it is their largest fund raiser.

below: Lulu’s World, where a black marker and some tissue paper helps to bring a story to life.

below: Upside down on the rope, Natural Wings

below: Wacky Chad, pogo sticks, dance moves, little bikes, and more

below: Alakazam, throwing knives and other sharp objects as his show’s finale

below: Pyromancer, fire breather, entertains the crowd.

below: Taking turns conducting a small string orchestra

below: Giant Sauruses wander Yonge Dundas Square looking for food. They are part of Close Act Theatre Group from the Netherlands.

below: The Yo-Yo Guy, John Higby, performs.

below: Part of his act involves removing a coin from behind the ear of a volunteer with a spinning yo-yo.

celebrating Canada Day

Posted: July 2, 2015 in events
Tags: Canada Day, Canadian, colours, costumes, crowds, drama, Dundas Square, fun, hats, kids, maple leaf, people, play, Queens Park, red, red and white, show, stage, statues, white

Canada Day 2015

There were celebrations at a number of locations around the city
including Queens Park and Yonge-Dundas Square.

A young man stands in Dundas Square in an area that has been barricaded off and also in which a large maple leaf outline in red tape has been laid down. He is wearing a red Canada T shirt and holding a small Canadian flag.

The red outline of a maple leaf was then used to make a “living flag” of people wearing red T-shirts and white T-shirts. The crowd waited patiently behind the barricades while the organizers got their act together. Not everyone stayed on the sidelines!

Five people pose for a photo. They are wearing red T shirts and they are standing withing the stem of the maple leaf outline that is taped to the ground. They are the first ones into the living flag that is trying to be made at Dundas Square as part of a Canada Day celebration

The first part of the “living flag” takes their place in the stem of the maple leaf.

A man holds a young girl on his shoulders while the watch a performance of New Choir, a choir that sings old rock songs, as part of a Canada Day celebration at Dundas Square. The girl is wearing a red hat with white maple leafs on it. There are Canadian flags hanging from the ceiling of the stage.

Listening to New Choir perform at Yonge Dundas Square

The back of a young girl wearing a red baseball cap and sitting on someone's shoulder as she watches an acrobat show on a stage

One of the better seats in the house! Watching the acrobatics at Queens Park.

A group of characters in red and white Canada Day costumes stop to pose with some boys. One of the characters has a stuffed beaver that is trying to take a sip of the boy's snowcone.

It’s thirsty work being a beaver!

Mayor John Tory has a small Canadian flag in his hand as he talks to people at Dundas Square on Canada day. He's in a white T-shirt.

As I stood as part of the white of the Canadian flag, along came John Tory, also on the white team. Just out of the picture (and also in white) was Miss Teenage Toronto. (What? We have a what? I had no idea there was a Miss Teen Toronto). Next time I’ll try harder to get a picture of her but this time I was preoccupied with being part of a flag.

Here’s to the next 148 years!

police memorial

Posted: October 9, 2014 in history, locations, memorials
Tags: city, died, fallen, hats, in the line of duty, memorial, on duty, Ontario, police, policemen, remembering, statue, Toronto, uniform

Near the corner of Queens Park Crescent and Grosvenor Street is the Ontario Police Memorial.
It was dedicated in May of 2000.

Light grey stone horizontal with 5 panels. The outer two panels on each side contain the names of the policemen who have died while on duty in Ontatio. The center section of the stone is the base for two statues - an older and a younger policeman.

The names of fallen Ontario police are carved in the stone at the base of the memorial.

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Streetfest – Beaches Jazz Festival

Posted: July 26, 2013 in events
Tags: beach, Beach Boys food, beaches, churros, crowds, dancing, Dr. Draw, Erin McCallum, event, food, food trucks, gmmf, God Made Me Funky, Gorilla Cheese, happy, hats, jazz, Juice, kids, music, people, Phusion, Queen St. East, smiles, street, street festival, sunglasses, Toronto

Streetfest, part of the Beaches International Jazz Festival, was held 25, 26 and 27 July this year. About 2 km of Queen St. East is closed to traffic so pedestrians can enjoy the music provided by many bands representing a diverse array of music genres. On both Thursday and Friday evening when I was there the weather was perfect and the atmosphere was fun. I hope that I have been able to capture the spirit of the event!

Music, food, shopping, and most of all, people watching!