picture my realia

broadview avenue and a supportive cough drop wrapper

 

Walking back to Mia's today after the streetcar turned around at Dundas.  I knew there would be some photo ops as I walked the rest of the way back. 

Do you have parks at your jails? Not just parks, but parkettes! They're so much cuter, no?

Toronto Jail (Don Jail), Broadview Ave., Toronto

Toronto city core from the vantage point of Riverdale Park East. Love those clouds.

I've had a nasty cold since Monday. This from the second package of cough drops I bought, trying to make my presence less felt at work; wherein I happened to notice the supportive messages in the candy wrappers. I like that. I will buy those cough drops again next time.

viaduct

 

The Bloor Viaduct (Prince Edward Viaduct, officially), completed in 1918,accommodates pedestrians, bicycles, cars and the subway train.  I shot a distance view of it the other day.

Looking down into the Don Valley.  I am not a fan of tall bridges. But even to me, walking over it is preferrable to making like a sardine in the subway train at 5:30. Especially on a day like today.

underground

I'm staying at Mia's most of this week.  I get a ride downtown with her lovely pal Carol, and am riding the subway back from work.  All I can say is, I'm glad my city has a subway, but I don't miss riding on it everyday.  Not one bit.

billboards

 

 

This curious billboard has recently gone up on Spadina near Front Street.

 

This corner is an assault of advertising. More so now that this condo development has its own billboards that are moving up with the building as it grows. Adbusters magazine used to have a feature in which they'd take a corner like this and photoshop out all the advertising. The effect is shockingly more serene. John Street looking south to Front Street.

 

shapes

An alley off Pearl Street, Toronto

So many interesting things to find in an alley.  Like the shapes in this one.

westinghouse building

 

There are so many of these beautiful walk up office buildings downtown. So many of them coming down to make way for condos. This is a particularly beautiful one. Most of the historically significant ones are being sacrificed, their fronts pasted on the front of the new towers to circumvent the heritage protection of them. I must say, the design to incorporate this one looks interesting. For a change. At any rate, the fencing is going up and the windows are being covered with paper.  King Street West, Toronto

 

New restaurant/club going in an old building on Pearl. I like that sign, which I saw for the first time today.  Pearl Street, Toronto

 

Rainy day. Pretty green leaves on the sidewalk. Spadina Avenue, Toronto.

 

john and pearl

 

No it's not a sketchy old bar clinging to life in the midst of condo-land. It's the construction office for that condo going up behind it, and the finished one to the left of it. Daniel was not some sinewy bartender serving locals in the theatre district; Daniels is a development corporation.  John Street at Pearl, Toronto.

beautiful day for a walk to kensington market

The best thing about May? LILACS!

Ceri and I decide to take advantage of the gorgeous day and walk up to Kensington Market and poke around there for a few hours.  If I photographed everything that caught my eye, I'd be there for a month.  Later we meet up with Carly for a bite to eat.  A really good day.

pearl street again

I think this is a nice view up Pearl Street, looking east.

A steel door. Pearl Street, Toronto.

Walked into work via back streets again this morning. 

 

beauty on the way to work

These beautiful blown glass flowers are encased in the ceiling of the entrance outside the Soho Hotel - camera pointing straight up. Just walking under them gives me pleasure. Wellington Street, Toronto.

I was enchanted with that sprinkler alarm. Pearl Street, Toronto

Wondering if this blog should have extra categories: gates, and brick. Pearl Street, Toronto.

This morning I took a windier route to work than usual, sticking into some smaller, less busy "back" streets.