day 1034 - published

three of my photographs were published by the newspaper 'hellas news', a greek publication with offices in toronto and new york. the photos can be found in the back cover of the thick holiday supplement of the paper. quite chuffed with meself, obviously. if you have a chance, get your free copy (at least i think they're free). i'll be showing it to my friend frankie who is a bonafide grecian goddess who will read the captions for me. my thanks to the good people at hellas news!

day 848 - pink flowers

i don't know what it's called but let's put some colours in this album once again!

day 764 - early morning on the danforth

practicing to use the manual setting to get the sunrise colours.

day 723 - it is cold

or so it seems, only because it's windy and i couldn't get these grasses to stay put, it was actually difficult to take any decent photo. buti got my macro for the day and even if i don't post it on 365, it's good enough for here. well, maybe.

day 720 - moon over the danforth

crazy weather we had today. morning was a bust with heavy grey clouds and misty rain. then the wind picked up and it was so cold. then it died down, but there was snow and then rain. in the afternoon, the clouds parted, the sun shone and the sky was a happy blue. in a short bus ride, the weather changed yet again to blowing snow. went to the laundromat, put in my clothes in the washing machines. walked back to the apartment, blowing snow still but the ground was just wet. ate a small slice of pizza, after 20 minutes, i decided i'd go back and check the wash. what do you know, the ground was covered with the white stuff, thick and made the sidewalk quite slippery. still snowing, wind still blowing. i look up and saw a star. what gives? then as i walked there was this thingie the moon. what to do? when i got back home with the laundry, i ran right back outside with the camera and took this shot. hello.

day 628 - used up beauty

the leaves of this young tree are slowly falling off...reminder of things to come.

day 624 - cindy's shoe

this little plastic shoe was too small to be noticed by anybody. but i did, but then a person with a camera looks at things (or pavements) with a different pair of eyes. i wonder if the prince eventually found it as i left it where it was after taking my shot.

day 606 - another glorious day

the danforth on a very glorious beautiful morning.

day 464 - danforth in bloom

its trees, that is. and the streetscape is starting to have that green colours. soon it will be summer. well, as soon as the cold leaves.

day 439 - fish for good friday

today, at lunch we went to Len Duckwoths Fish & Chips on the danforth. it's jampacked and i only realized why just when we were leaving. it is good friday today and maybe the patrons were mostly catholics so they were observing the "no meat" day today. oi, how many times must i explain that it's not that meat they were talking about!....

day 435 - lamp

at giorgio's, next door to my apartment, lit by the setting sun, on a gorgeous spring afternoon.

day 427 - stray crocuses

well, they're probably not stray crocuses because they were between a church wall and the pavement. but they looked like diamonds in the rough, with their beautiful variagated colour amongst dried leaves, stray garbage and heavens whatever dogs have left around there. pretty soon they will die and the saffron they would've produced would be gone and wasted.

day 426 - "the one"

this coffee shop was quite busy this afternoon, heavy people traffic, the coffee must be good!

day 402 - minaret, part 2

in day 217 we featured this minaret but i took that photo from inside the car i was riding in. and the arches at the time weren't finished yet on this mosque. five months later, here is the mosque as finished. it used to be that this was just a non-descript building, but they have beautified it into this lovely structure. it is a sight to behold along the danforth.

day 391 - caught!

poor is the kid who lost this bunch of baloons!

day 390 - just an old fashioned mailbox

it's a good thing that i was able to take this picture of this mailbox when i did, because a week later on, when we came back to the place this had been vandalized with graffiti's. i love this mailbox, it's like peeking at the old days and you don't even need permission to peek. damn those people who vandalized it!

day 353 - birds

on a cold, cold day, these birds are all huddled together up the hydro wires on main street and danforth. this is just a portion of the wire i took. that wire to the left was also covered with these black birds. the alfred hitchcock movie came to mind. yowsers!

day 346 - iced over, sort of

we have seen these trees at the start of fall in day 229 and day 283 . so now here they are with the snow on the ground. i just couldn't have that one chance of taking a picture during the snowstorm or just when the snow is on the branches themselves. hopefully, that would happen before winter ends. the one constant thing though is that car, isn't it?

day 343 - the shadow is back

the snow and ice on the ground at eastlyn park were so thick that people were just having a grand time toboganning on the slopes with their children. i was hoping for ice on the trees, but with the wind last night, the snow had fallen off the branches and spared the trees from being iced over. but then i noticed the shadow, remember it in post day 274 ? well, it was there, too, so i took a picture of it as it stood on the already trodden snow.

day 342 - mural on the danforth

it snowed again this morning, lots of it. on the way to the sushi restaurant to have lunch, we saw this mural and made a mental note (i know, i'm mental) to take a picture on the way back. and the mental note worked. hahahaha. the problem was taking the whole mural wasn't so good because of the support for the lampost beside the building so i had to stand really close to the mural. a part of the support is still visible on the lower left of the picture. look at the snow at the bottom which is the actual pavement, and the snow had obviously been shovelled off.

see how the window of the building blended in with the painting's background? cool huh?