would you believe it? there's still the moon at almost 9 o'clock in the morning! people were looking at me funny this morning, as i was walking to the subway station, i had my camera in my hands and just snapping pictures of the sky. i noticed some would even look up then shake their heads. yes, people, i am a nut, but even then, if i could help it, i want to take pictures without the crazy passers-by.
the leaves of this tree had turned completely red and it was a sight to behold around the neighbourhood. the temperature may still be a hold out, but there's no mistaking it, the cold weather is soon going to be taking over. as for me, as long as it's not icy, i'm okay with the cold.
aha! here's one tree that's not succumbed yet to the cold weather. it looks as summery as ever. but until when it can hang on is the question of the day. in any case, it is really still early to change colour and shed off its leaves. but i'm a-watchin' this one for the next several days.
this is the last weekend that the blue jays, toronto's baseball team, is playing at home. we brought the grandsons to see their very first baseball game, they had a ball using the binoculars, a regular sports binoculars and a small, gold plated "opera" binoculars. and eating pizza. and playing in the play zone. our left hander tried the simulated pitching game, first 7 pitches were strikes. i was thinking 'gold mine'. alas, he said he prefers to play soccer.
you know how you take for granted the things you see all the time and suddenly one day you stop and say, "now, how come i never noticed this one before? has it always been there?" and yes, i have passed by this bakery so many times and seeing it today with the chairs and tables just outside, highlighting the wares displayed behind the glass windows
the leaves have turned to gold on most of the trees on the south side of the danforth. a few more windy days and they'd all be bald. but hopefully we'll have more beautiful days like today.
"all my instincts, they return and the grand facade, so soon will burn without a noise, without my pride, I reach out from the inside" (in your eyes, peter gabriel) - that was the song that was playing somewhere along the danforth while i was taking this photograph of tropical cannas, the only one along the danforth.
this is the facade of a thai restaurant - you can't get any intricate with bamboo than this. actually, i suppose you can. but down the street, there is a philippine craft store where you can find bamboo crafts of all kinds, well, almost all.
the flatiron building, actually a few blocks away from the high rises, is dwarfed by the BCE tower buildings, the RBC south tower and the CN tower. it gives a spooky sense of david and goliath. the old building does it for me, hands down.
it's a beautiful sunday morning here in toronto today and the danforth is so quiet. if this weather stays like this until march, we won't be complaining, would we? but we take whatever we can and so we will enjoy this day.
the transport of the suburbanites in coming to and from toronto: the GO trains. this was taken this morning, on my way back from my grandson's karate class.
"one bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch, girl!" goes the lyrics of a Michael Jackson song from the 70's (or maybe that was the Osmonds?). but these apples were in a large bin (at least three children could play in it and still have much room), and they were just all green apples. i wonder how in the world the store was going to sell them all without most of them getting rotten. as it was, these apples were selling for 25 cents a pound - you haven't seen those prices since, yes, the 70's!
"people are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges." i know i had posted a photograph of a wall some few weeks back. but i have a penchance for the ordinary things that others would not have noticed. for example this wall with its bricks exposed. i find poetry and romance in things like this, and today it's the picture de jour.
the green ones, this time. these are what they call the banana peppers. these are good sauteed with red onions and made as topping for a nicely grilled steak, then put some feta cheese on top. where i got this idea is beyond me because i am vegetarian in the first place. hahaha.
red peppers...sweet red peppers. it's that time of year. i know. i have an italian friend whose family make the best roasted peppers. they taught me one time how to roast and freeze them; and how to prepare them for eating: sliced, then seasoned with some italian dressing, fill up a buttered panini roll and lined with thinly sliced prosciutto. ay! mamma mia de gracia!
never noticed this one before but i do pass by this place everyday. i think they have those hookahs or waterpipes for their customers.
one of danforth avenue's many transformation is this minaret of a mosque near donlands avenue. the building used to be a nondescript but over the years had been transformed into this simple yet beautiful looking mosque.
my grandsons and i were walking past the local vegetable store. i saw these thingamajiggers and i took a picture while wondering aloud what they could be. the 8-year old said, "they are cherry peppers." i told him how smart he was and that indeed the thingas looked like abbreviated peppers. i asked him how he knew it, and he simply pointed to the sign that said "cherry pepers" (sic) "79 cents/lb". smart boy for reading the signs. hah!
no, it isn't! it's just heavy clouds and the setting sun over the danforth. but the scene does kind of look ominous.
yup, there's no mistaking it! the strong winds, the colder temperatures, the rain, the changing colours on trees. this picture is not that great, but yes, autumn is coming. and soon! and we all know what that means....
this little critter was actually doing a chase-around with another squirrel. the trunk of the tree is quite wide and everytime i press the shutter of my camera, no matter how very low the clicking noise was, they just start to scamper. and this is the best shot i could get of the little bastards.
that's what i wanted to know. there were 3 police cruisers (the third one hidden behind that passing red van) at the corner of danforth and monarch avenues at 9 in the morning. three officers were conferring with each other, while another two went inside the giorgio's restaurant. 
believe it or not, i brought the grandkids to the waterfront to watch the airshow and i ended up taking pictures of boats instead.
yet again! we were driving around the city when i chanced to look up and there's the tower. in fact i've seen it so many times today in different places - it's like a stalker, really.
this is an interesting tropical foliage. it's just stark white with shades and lines of green. would this be considered an albino plant?
at least the sky is. this is the skyscape east of danforth avenue from my building - that red brick building. west of the danforth, the sky is just all blue and clear. we have all these weird cloud formations and they are almost always localized. i think we are going into the process of polar reversal.
not mine, but my partner jim's - bran flakes (yaiks!) with lots of strawberries and soya milk (another yaiks!). you can also say it's strawberries with bran flakes. my partner actually always eat healthy, he's 67 years old and suffers from NO diseases or illnesses. i will be long dead and he would still be plowing the earth.
