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Grow Love (Bell box)
Grand Ave. and The Queensway
When you turn the corner from The Queensway onto Grand Ave, you will see a small teal coloured box in between two trees and the sidewalk. The background is made up of round pastel hill shapes in blues, greens, pinks and yellows. As you approach the box, you will notice a dark blue plant with heart shaped leaves. Walking around the box, you will see many different plants: pink plants with multiple leaves, a long fuchsia chain of ivy, daffodils and baby’s breath made with tiny hearts.
The artist Erin McCluskey has been drawing a lot of plants lately and started to notice how many plants have heart shapes in their flowers or in their leaves. This inspired her to create a whole garden of heart shaped plants. Each one is slightly different from the other.
In the spirit of cultivating presence, Erin would like to share a quote with you: “Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.” This quote by Alexandre Dumas is a reminder to take more time to notice and appreciate our surroundings. As you take this walk around the neighbourhood, take some time to appreciate and notice the different shapes in the plants.
In these parts, it's all roadwork and construction all the time. I've lived here for 15 years, and I think that maybe 5 of those years have been unimpeded by construction. Maybe.
One of five photos taken while looking down from the top floor of a parking garage that serves the St. Joseph's Unity Health Toronto. Best seen large by clicking on the photo.
In this photo I am looking towards towards the intersection of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue, just west of Roncesvalles Avenue.
Thanks for visiting, enjoy each day.
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Wildflowers (Bell Box)
Inverleigh Dr. and The Queensway
This organic mural transforms a plain rectangular Bell box into a natural scene complete with blooming wildflowers. A soft turquoise meets teal gradient acts as the backdrop for large dark green, heart-shaped leaves. Thin bright yellow grasses and pale blue flowers are layered on top in a very loose, drawing-like style. Painted in the fall, these flowers demonstrate the act of providing seeds and pollen to insects and birds before winter.
Stacey Kinder, the artist who painted this Bell Box, is an artist, ecologist and conservationist from Toronto with a background in Fine Arts and Ecosystem Management. She hopes to share her passion through her artwork and highlight the natural wildlife in Canadian neighbourhoods.
This mural was inspired by the plants that were growing around the box itself. Stacey’s aim was to celebrate the beings that live in the South Etobicoke neighbourhood and their unique individuality. As different as they are, each plant thrives here and co-exists in the same ecosystem - much like us, the plants and animals are connected and dependent on one another. If one component of an ecosystem is missing, the entire network is at risk of poor health and collapse. This really brings home the idea of neighbourhood love.
"St. Joseph's Health Centre is a large Catholic teaching hospital in western Toronto, Ontario. It is located west of downtown Toronto, along the Lake Ontario shore at the intersection of The Queensway and Sunnyside Avenue, just west of Roncesvalles Avenue. It was founded in 1921 by the Sisters of St. Joseph order on the site of an orphanage." - Wikipedia
Taken from the fifth floor of the parking garage this morning. Best seen large by clicking on the photo.
Thanks for visiting, enjoy each day.
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A Happy Place (Bell Box)
Moynes and The Queensway
This colourful mural was painted on a square Bell Box with mostly teal for the background. On the left, there is a pink girl sitting outside in her neighbourhood, admiring the natural environment through the window. You can also see a few houses and green trees, and a big pink dove-like bird flying overhead.
Yasaman Mehrsa is a Toronto based studio and street artist. Her art is inspired by the connection between humans and nature, storytelling, symbols, and fantasy. She hopes to spread love and peace with the language of art. Yasaman wanted to communicate that Neighbourhood Love means to love yourself, your family, your home, your neighbours, and your neighbourhood.
When designing this piece, she thought about the beauty and peace that one can find in their surroundings. She imagined herself sitting in an outdoor space, admiring nature. She hopes the viewers can imagine themselves being the figure in her painting and feel peace, love and happiness from within. Her goal is to inspire those who see her work to look more carefully at the world around them and discover beauty in everything. As a person as well as artist, she truly loves colours and being colourful. She believes that art is one of the purest forms of communication and that it can connect people on different levels and in diverse ways.
A random construction site, taken while driving home yesterday.
Best seen large by clicking on the photo. Thanks for visiting:)
Last summer I took my Mum over to Scotland for a day trip. I can't believe I'd never done it before, only £50 for a day return ticket :)
We headed through Galloway Forest Park along The Queen's Way and stopped at Clatteringshaws Loch. Such a beautiful place and even though it was quite overcast at times, we had a marvellous day :)
Planning another trip over very soon :)
Hope you are all having a good week. Our rain has finally stopped (although there has been more forecast), and even though my back is to the window at work, I turned around to see a sunrise, so that was a nice change :)
Thank you so much for such lovely positive comments on my previous uploads. I enjoy reading them all :)
...but my first visit to Tom's Dairy Freeze traditionally sees me with ice cream, but it was a little too chilly today. That said, I could have had a burger...but I'll be back.
This is the streetcar right of way for the TTC's 501 Queen streetcar route. It's roughly 2.32 km in length from Claude Ave all the way to the Humber Loop. If you have taken the 501 Queen streetcar you will know that this section is the best thing to ever happen to the route as it speeds up the streetcars because they run in their own lane. Too bad the full route can't have a right of way.
Scottish weather I guess can be unpredictable, and when we stopped at Clatteringshaws Lough along The Queen's Way, Galloway Forest Park, we could see the rain coming towards us but the sun was still fighting to shine and I loved how it lit up the trees in the distance :)
Happy Wednesday everyone and thanks for the views, comments and faves :)
Which is nothing new for me if I'm honest, but why is there a Barber's Pole on this Italian restaurant ?
A nod to Rossini's opera ? ...Tortellini and a trim ?
Along The Queen's Way, Galloway Forest Park, Scotland, we spotted a deer enclosure. There were Roe, Fallow and Red deer, but this was the only one I could get a close shot of.
Start of a nice short week for me, and with a heatwave here this week too, it should be a good one :D
Happy Monday everyone :)
The streetcar right of way on The Queensway. The 501 Queen streetcar always picks up ground after passing Roncesvalles going west because it has its own lane. It only slows down going into the downtown core.
After waiting 15 minutes for a streetcar to pass by, this was the best and only shot I could get. I wasn't going to wait any longer.
Swansea
Toronto
...far fewer if you factor in the paint.
1970 dodge challenger r/t - se in sassy grass / green go paint
Had a few free hours on Monday so took a drive with every intention of going to Loch Ken to try my new lens.Stopped here,climbed to the monument and then never went any further.Just stayed and photographed as the shadows from the clouds passing the sun played across this view. Next mission Loch Ken attempt 2!
Taken on Fuji X-M1 with XF14mmF2.8R lens.
...far fewer if you factor in the iconic 426 hemi under the hood.
1971 dodge charger r/t - in dark green
Amerika, Nordamerika, Kanada, Ontario, Toronto, The Queensway, am Roncesvalles Carhouse, nahe Sunnyside loop
A neighborhood favorite on The Queensway in Toronto, Tom's Dairy Freeze has been serving ice cream, sundaes, milkshakes and banana splits for almost 50 years.
Olympus Pen E-PL2 & VF-4 viewfinder
Lumix G Vario 7-14mm f/4 ASPH @ 7mm
ISO 200, 1/250 @ f/5.6
Photoshop CS6, Nik Color Efex Pro
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February 9, 2017. Looking southwest from the ice of Grenadier Pond towards the Queensway. I took this picture an hour after sunset before the sky was completely dark.
One of five photos taken while looking down from the top floor of a parking garage that serves the St. Joseph's Unity Health Toronto.
In this photo I am looking past the Queensway, towards Lake Ontario. You can see your campers who are learning to sail. Best seen large by clicking on the photo.
Thanks for visiting, enjoy each day.
Along the Highway #174 portion of the Queensway:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Road_174
Gloucester; Ottawa, Ontario.