two yellow houses with red doors

Mellow Yellow Monday          and          Monday Doorways

scaffolding

Scaffolding has gone up under the Toronto bound section of the Burlington Skyway

The work is part of a project that began in June and is expected to last until November 2012. Crews will be replacing bridge expansion joints and coating the structural steel to prevent corrosion.

There are more pics and a story on my other blog at VioletSky


SundayBridges

ruffled sleep

my fur is undone,you say?

it's really too hot to care

besides I am always adorable

camera-critters

B is for binoculars

to operate 
click on image, then click again

ABC Wednesday and WateryWednesday

numbered

I was attracted to the address numbers on this building and was actually a little surprised to see that another young man was also taking a photo of the same building. cool, someone else is into 

funky typography, thought I (stupidly)

 then I looked more closely

my first planking sighting!

although, now I read that the days of planking are numbered because

planking is so 'two months ago' 

and has been replaced by something called 'owling'

MyWorldTuesday

minto

built 1905 

 Rideau River

SundayBridges

not as cuddly as he looks

camera-critters
Weekend in Black and White

playing with the outdoors

SkyWatchFriday

golf in the rough

signs signs

A is for art

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life

~ Pablo Picasso

ABC Wednesday

Elora

The Metcalfe Street Bridge in historical Elora

Sunday Bridges

picnic

On a day for singing

my heart went winging

a picnic grove was our rendezvous

~ Shelley Fabares

Weekend Reflections

under partly sunny skies

...and yes, I did buy stuff

SkyWatchFriday

real estate for all

Remax helps you find the perfect home,

whatever your needs.

signs, signs

Z is for Zaire... Zambia, Zimbabwe

The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1971 and 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the Portuguese: Zaire, itself an adaptation of the Kongo word nzere or nzadi, or 'the river that swallows all rivers'.

The former country of Rhodesia, through another complex history of colonialism, became Northern and Southern Rhodesia with the Northern taking on the new name of Zambia with its independence in 1964. This name was derived from the the Zambezi River, which may mean God's River, which flows through the western region of the country.

Southern Rhodesia did not gain international  recognition of its independence until 1980 when it changed its name to Zimbabwe. Various sources hold that the name Zimbabwe is derived from dzimba-dza-mabwe, translated from the Karanga dialect of Shona as 'large houses of stone'. Another theory claims that Zimbabwe is a contracted form of dzimba-hwe which means 'venerated houses' in the Zezuru dialect of Shona, and is usually applied to chiefs' houses or graves.

ABC Wednesday

[edit]

taken from Wikipedia and edited.

which means, this globe is dated from between 1981 and 1997

gritty graffiti

a Holga-ish view of the Gerrard Street (Toronto) overpass. 

work is being done to paint over the graffiti

SundayBridges

bird in a tree

Don't you wish sometimes, 

you could just move a leaf out out of the way...

or, that's better, 

move your head and strike a better pose

and then there's this little guy, who really, could barely keep his eyes open

I think the bright sunshine exhausted him!

camera-critters

a vivid morning

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you. 

~Tadao Ando

SkyWatchFriday

Y is for yellow

the yellow in this banana has faded a bit, then again,
not all bananas are bright yellow....

Exactly 33 years ago (July 5, 1978) the first no frills store opened down the street from where I lived in East York, Ontario. It was a prototype of the discounted grocery store with a very limited selection of brands that were displayed on shelves in their cardboard shipping boxes with the front cut open (when that box emptied, stock boys had to be called to open the box behind). For the first time, products were not individually priced but had handwritten signs stuck on each shelf underneath the boxes. And we had to pay for bags (which were, and still are, a gaudy shade of yellow). By the 1990s the stores started being converted to franchises with each one displaying the first names of the owners.

ABC Wednesday
signs, signs

lakeview

a shimmering light interspersed 

with patches of calm

life on the water

My WorldTuesday

shadows on the walk

a boardwalk with bridges climbing up 

- or down - 

the valley in the Royal Botanical Gardens

Shadows of trees dancing

Always dancing

All along the path

Constantly moving

But never traveling

Down the path or up it.

Shadows are bound to the shapes that make them

Like the trees that cast them.

~Shadows of Trees Dancing by Hm. Nes

SundayBridges and ShadowShotSunday

jump!

can he do it?

is this the highest jumping dog in the world?

 YES!!

okay, everybody, a round of applause, please

taken at Canada Day festivities, Spencer Smith Park

camera-critters