day 700 - a piece of heaven

another beautiful sunset, another missed opportunity. there will be many more, though, but not this one, each one is always different.

day 606 - another glorious day

the danforth on a very glorious beautiful morning.

day 581 - "the moon is like a lovely tune..."

beware my foolish heart." the moon at dusk.

day 579 - weird cloud formation

this morning, the skies generally looked like this. weird, eh?

day 576 - missed opportunity

this afternoon, the cloud formation looked weird. beautiful, but weird. apparently, when the sun was finally setting, these clouds turned deep orange against the blue of the sky. well, i just saw it on tv and in posts on the internet the next morning. i chose to have good food rather than looking out. that is what i call a missed opportunity. dangit!

day 405 - the super moon?!?

i can't really tell you if the moon was a tad bigger than usual. i suppose over a large lake it would still appear to be small but it was beautiful to look at until it hid in the darn clouds. my sister and i enjoyed watching it emerge from the waters. it was like talking to God.

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 393 - sunset in the city

we were driving home from picking up the children and the sunset was quite pleasant to look at. so even at 120 kph on the highway, i had to take a picture.

day 391 - caught!

poor is the kid who lost this bunch of baloons!

day 377 - i am a hotel

this is the top floor of the king eddie hotel on king street. this part of the hotel is not open to the public, except once a year during the "doors open: toronto" event. the first time it was shown to the public, a lot of people came to see what it was like. it's like entering a haunted house in the middle of the day. this floor contains the old ballroom of the hotel and is the inspiration for leonard cohen's poem "i am a hotel".

day 351 - the view from within

having lunch at the food court, i looked up and this was the view: a round building. this picture is quite interesting in that it has different shapes in its composition: squares, rectangle, triangle, arc, round, why even an oblique rectangle - you know i'm just winging this. i forgot my shapes from grade school, but that is forgivable considering i am nearing my 60th year.

day 350 - sunshine

today, it was cold! minus 21 in the morning with a windchill factor of minus 36. that's celcius. but damn! the sun shone brightly and it was lovely throughout the day. except it was very, very cold. the good news is we are heading into the warm days again, in about four more months!

day 317 - "1918"

here's an old building on the danforth. the number is not the street address, that's for sure. i would guess that this was the year the structure was built. what i'd like to know is did they know then that they were going to halve the building? 1918. wonder how the electricals are, and the plumbing?

day 300 - reflections

yay! i reached day 300! what a feat. i took this picture while waiting for the partner to come back to the car, he had a TV that stopped working so suddenly so we went to goodwill depot and gave it away, hoping some enterprising person can make use of it. back to the picture, i was sitting in the car waiting when i saw the reflection of a large old tree reflected in the side mirror from the window of the car cast by the light from the setting sun. it was a beautiful day today, despite the cold.

day 281 - the last leaf

"the last leaf clings to the bough, just one leaf that's all there is now..." that is a line from the the last leaf, a song made popular in the 1960's by a group called the cascades who perished in an airplane crash. apparently they only had made one album and i used to know all the songs in that album.

there is this massive tree on one of the major routes of toronto's streetcar system; it is so ancient that i can only take a picture of it from half a block away to take a full picture, which isn't feasible since, as i said it is on major route which makes it busy with people passing by (which is fine) but also a lot of cars and buses ply the route. but the other thing that caught my eye was this one leaf hanging by a thread, which brought to mind that song by the cascades. ...and my last hope is with that lonely leaf...

day 278 - remember this?

i took a photograph of this tree 26 days ago when it still held so many golden leaves. this is how it looks now, nary a leaf on it. the next time there'll be snow on it!

day 252 - tree

"i think that i shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree"...walking down the danforth with the grandsons, the youngest one, 6, said, "look at the tree, it looks beautiful with the blue sky! take a picture, please." and so i did. today was another beautiful day, with the sun shining and the sky so clear, even though there was some strong winds, taking a stroll was definitely a must.

day 229 - changing colours

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.

day 217 - a mosque's minaret

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.

day 208 - it's another weird friday

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.