You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
~Tadao Ando
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
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.
signs, signs
Monday, July 4, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
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.
Friday, July 1, 2011
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
Thursday, June 30, 2011
a mess of contrails
On a clear, crisp summer's morning, a mess of contrails over Burlington Bay and Hamilton
SkyWatchFriday
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
X is for xxx
The XXX symbol is three St. Andrew’s Crosses in white on a black stripe on a red background.
St. Andrew was a fisherman who lived in the 1st Century AD and was said to have been crucified on an X-shaped cross. The Amsterdam XXX symbol dates back to the year 1505 when the city was a fisherman’s town, so the coat of arms was established as the symbol for the city itself and it also flew as a flag on all ships registered in Amsterdam.
ABC Wednesday
signs, signs
above photo taken from this sign for the Amsterdam Bridge on the waterfront in Toronto
you may need to click on sign to embiggen if you want to read it
Monday, June 27, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
white calm
"But calm, white calm, was born into a swan"
~Elizabeth Coatsworth
this is the family from this post
camera-critters
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
W is for William Travilla
three dresses designed by William Travilla
THE dress, designed by William Travilla, Marilyn Monroe's pleated 'subway' dress (from Billy Wilder's 1955 movie The Seven Year Itch) that sold recently for 4.6million (US) flanked by the red sequined dress (from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) that sold for 1.2million (US) with another dress that was apparently leant to Marilyn in the foreground.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
from the 11th floor
with a zoom...
'enhanced' from iphoto
'auto-fix' from Picasa
'HDRish' from Picasa
I can no longer see the Burlington Skyway and the [Burlington Canal] Lift Bridge from my window due to the ever growing trees. So I had to visit a friend who lives a little higher up. The mornings have been a bit misty and dull though, so I had to alter the photos to bring out the colours. This is what happened.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
enjoying the view
It is late afternoon as the clouds move in over Lake Ontario and these people enjoy
the view over Spencer Smith Park in Burlington.
SkyWatchFriday
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
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