picture my realia

a saturday in the neighbourhood

 

I loved these teeny tiny purple roses in green pots. I think I need to go back and buy one today.

 

This image reminded me of one of my favourite old fashioned sayings: "that water is as still as pee on a plate."

 

Super Moon rising over the lake from across the street from my place. Captured a plane taking off from the airport under it. Yes, we should have gone across the street to photograph it; we'd just got home and it was rising so fast I had to scramble to get my tripod up. Not organized!

 

friday part two

 

 

Looking into the Harbour from the Toronto Music Garden. Near Queens Quay and Spadina.

 

Maypole sculpture. Toronto Music Garden, near Queens Quay and Spadina.

 

Super Moon rising over Lake Ontario. Toronto's Harbourfront.

The problem with posting early in the day is that you might find some great images later!  After dinner Ceri and I take a walk, first in the Toronto Music Garden, and then over to the Harbourfront Centre.  I don't need to tell you it was a beautiful evening.

 

variable like spring

 

Overcast, and streetcar cables at King and Spadina, Toronto

A basket of wine bottles with fun orange labels.

Fresh mown grass. FRESH MOWN GRASS. How uplifting is THAT smell the first time you smell it in the spring?

Thunder-stormy sky. It started raining just as I got to this corner. I got a little wet, subsequently, but I didn't mind.

dusk

 

John Street, Toronto

 

Mercer Street, Toronto

 

As I stood there lining up this shot of the pink light on the red carpet and sidewalk, that bouncer, who had been standing with some other guys out of frame on the sidewalk, decided to walk into the shot. Maybe he was getting ready to reject me and my running shoes from walking into that club. King Street, Toronto

Happy birthday Mom!  I love you.

blossoms on a very special day

Blossoms on a tree in Clarence Square, off Spadina Ave., Toronto

Happy birthday Dad.  I love you very much. 

I smelled these blossoms before I saw them. 

1000 stories

skylight and giant woodpeckers

 

The Skywalk, south of Front Street, Toronto

Giant Woodpecker sculpture, Toronto Convention Centre, off York and Bremner

Woodpecker sculpture, Toronto Convention Centre, off York and Bremner

Back to work today.  Productive, though I'd gotten used to the freedom of that FOUR DAY weekend!   Should be back up to speed by Friday.  In the meantime, I do like today's photos.

Out Walking: Cabbagetown, Riverdale

 

On the way over to Ceri's I find thise great bunches of Pussywillows, Maple Leaf Square.

 

Walking to Cabbagetown, we spot the pretty stained glass in the inner vestebule of a building. Then we notice poor Pee Wee Herman in a bit of a situation. There was nothing we could do to save him, the door was locked.

 

The Ben Wicks, Parliament Street, Toronto

 

Fence at Riverdale Farm, Toronto

Yellow. Daffodils and forsythia at Riverdale Farm.

The Chapel at the Toronto Necropolis, adjacent to Riverdale Farm, Toronto. The informational sign says this is one of the finest examples of gothic revival architecture in Toronto.

 

 

Chapel at the Toronto Necropolis.

 

Could that be more gothic? Chapel at the Toronto Necropolis.

 

Toronto Necropolis Chapel.

 

Curious (and beautiful) apartments on Carleton Street, with fire escapes going up to every apartment, it seemed.

 

More forsythia and a gate. Carleton Street, Toronto

 

A door in Cabbagetown, Toronto

 

Back in Ceri's St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood, where I can't seem to stop taking photos of brick.

On this beautiful Good Friday, we take a walk to Cabbagetown, and then through Riverdale Farm and the adjacent (and most beautiful) Toronto Necropolis.

 

apropos

A lot of people criticise the obligatory art that comes with every new condo.  I like these pieces a lot though; how they evoke both rail and water travel.  Tribute to the rail corridor just north and the harbour just south.  I always admire how that one there flirts with the western sky. 

Out Walking: Liberty Village, King Street

Forsythia - one of the first bloomers of spring and therefore one of the most welcome sights. Queens Quay near Bathurst, Toronto.

Most of Liberty Village is new (condos, businesses, offices), my camera gravitates to the old.

Red brick and doorway. Liberty Village, Toronto

Red brick and window, Liberty Village, Toronto

Liberty Village, Toronto

Fence outside a massive construction project. Liberty Village, Toronto

Fence outside a massive construction project. Liberty Village, Toronto

HS and MS - forever connected to Liberty Village, Toronto.

Former Smokestack. Liberty Village, Toronto

Turret and pigeons. King Street, Toronto

Streetcar, bridge and pidgeons. King Street, Toronto

Beautiful shadows on brick; my favourite photo of the day. King Street, Toronto.

What starts as a rather dreary morning, becomes a spectacularly sunshiny afternoon.  After putting corned beef and cabbage into the slowcooker, we take a walk out to Liberty Village via the lakefront and check it out.  It's a new neighbourhood, a gentrification project.  The place is mostly brand new condos and businesses around a few old warehouses.  We walk back along the wonderful King Street.  Grateful for some vitamin D.