St Andrew

Continuing with the TTC theme from yesterday's post....
I decided to travel the subway and take some photos of the station signs.

The station walls are undergoing some renovations. Above is one version of the newer signage and tiles and below are an older version of the signs with the vertical tiles and showing the original version and the giant square subway tiles that was underneath, on the left. 

(this just looks like it was taken in black and white, but it really is that colour)

St Andrew station opened in 1963  (there is also a St George and St Patrick, but no St David station. none however were named after the saint or the cross or even England, Scotland or Ireland)

signs, signs

R is for Red Rocket

I took this photo of the old TTC streetcar sitting in a farmer's field on Highway 6 while stuck in traffic back in August. When I last went up that way about 2 months ago, the inner garden had been cleared, but sadly I did not stop to photograph it.

The Red Rocket is the nickname given to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) vehicles. It was started with the bright red trains that were used from 1954 to late 1960s and the name stuck. Now, the streetcars and buses are mostly red and white and the subways cars are silver.

This summer a new design was unveiled for the subway car and this weekend we got a preview of the new streetcar.

They are heavily promoting the Red Rocket and 'Ride the Rocket' slogan (over the other slogan 'The Better Way' for reasons best left alone)

ABC Wednesday

cormorants

surveying their domain

of a recreated landscape

camera-critters

11.11.11

Remembrance Day 

Weekend Reflections

meet the meat

 I rather liked the play on words for this butcher's shop

but then, I really liked the juxtaposition of the butcher's sign with the hunter cutout

which belonged to the shop next door, 

which happened to be 

(*neither of these shops are common in the city!)

signs, signs

Q is for Queen's

One Queen's Hotel that is still open and operating as a bar and another that has sadly closed down

ABC Wednesday

stairs

the stairway 

in the new 

Burlington Performing Arts Centre

that opened earlier this month

Our World Tuesday

tracks

transformation of an old railway bridge into a pedestrian walkway.

you can see a train engine in the centre distance looking on, wistfully.

Sunday Bridges

looking forward

never drive faster 

than your guardian angel can fly

~author unknown

Weekend Reflections

steps to the lake

listen to the salutation to the dawn 

look to this day for its life

for yesterday is but a dream 

and tomorrow is only a vision

~sanskrit proverb

SkyWatch Friday

P is for piggy

at a restaurant in Kingston called Chez Piggy (once owned by Zal Yanovsky of the band the Lovin Spoonful) the hallway outside the washrooms have been decorated with cartoons of pigs by some well-known editorial cartoonists.

also near Kingston, there is a new coffehouse the Socialist Pig with an attached restaurant called Pig Iron BBQ serving the best pulled pork I have ever had!

and a real live (for now) piggy

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waterfront trail

Beyond this entrance lies Bayfront Park and the Waterfront Trail. Formerly a vacant lot, it has been transformed over the last 18 years into a 40 acre park with trails and beaches. There is fishing and sailing on water, cycling and walking on trails, or playing and picnicking on the grass.

Our World Tuesday

403 + 407

I may have posted a shot of these bridges before, though they may have been at a  slightly different angle and not processed in faded b&w and infrared and cinemascope. This was taken in the spring, when everything was far too 

vibrantly green and shows where hwy 407 ends at hwy 403.

I like that there is still this bit of natural wasteland in the city.

SundayBridges

reaching the sky

the tree grew, and it was strong

and its height reached to the sky

and its sight to the end of the earth

~ Daniel 4:11

SkywatchFriday

O is for one

in Owen Sound

This photomosaic of the (old) one dollar bill was created in 2007 for Owen Sound's 150th anniversary. Made up of 363 photos it is meant to celebrate the industrial accomplishments and the many people who call Owen Sound home.

ABC Wednesday