Trinity Bellwoods Area 2

Dundas St. West (behind Trinity Bellwoods)
March 25, 2018

Graffiti abound along Dundas Street West - behind the Trinity Bellwoods Park. Just my kind of place.

Trinity Bellwoods Area

Trinity Bellwoods

March 25, 2018

I vowed to know and explore more about the place I call home. Toronto

And this brought me around the Trinity Bellwood Area one Saturday afternoon.

Interesting, colorful buildings.

The hip Gladstone Hotel

And a park.

Graffiti WORDS

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more. 

~ Confucius

By the Drake Hotel area.

As seen at Queen St. West.

Flying Pony Coffee (Gerrard St. E.)

An alleyway in Koreatown.

Gerrard St. East - 2

Gerrard Street (Greenwood - Coxwell)
April 22, 2018


More photos from the Greenwood-Coxwell stroll.

We did not even have to look for some street art in the area. They were visible from afar and not in quiet alleys.

And the owner of this car even chatted with me for a while.

Just around the Flying Pony Cafe.

Back of shops.

My favorite street art in the area.

The wall of an Indian Restaurant.

Colorful doors still around the Flying Pony Coffee.

Toronto Streets : Please Be Seated

Empty chairs, seats, benches always get me. Whether it is on my timed lunch walk or a leisurely stroll. Here are 4 I snapped lately.

At the St. Basil's Catholic Church, Bay Street.
March 22, 2018

Giant Muskoka chair at the Duke of York.

April 5, 2018

Park Hyatt Toronto - March 26, 2018

Mt. Pleasant Cemetery - April 9, 2018

Bring out the comfy chair!!!

Mount Pleasant Cemetery

OK now, add to my weirdness is my fondness for cemeteries. I just think they are one of the most beautiful places to visit, to take a stroll, to meditate. One of these places will be my final resting place (hopefully years and years from now) - but for now a visit is good enough.

Photos taken on my recent stroll at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery (5 Heath Crescent, Toronto). Death maybe the great leveler but still some markers stand out more than others.

Visitation Centre, Forest of Remembrance.

For life and death are one, even as the sea and river are one. 

~ Khalil Gibran

Salvador Dali - 2

From Lithographs to Casts (lost wax process) of Dali's familiar works.

Alice in Wonderland.

 

The Elephant which is one of Dali's favorite subject.

And of course the iconic melted watch. Dance of Time.

Salvador Dali Exhibit

One September day in 2017, I went to the Yorkville Village for my lunch stroll. I was surprised that the village (read mall) had a Salvador Dali inspired exhibit. I am familiar and have seen some photos of Salvador Dali's work - thus the thing excited me. Salvador Dali (1904-1989) is the surrealist painter, sculptor, filmmaker, printmaker and performing artist. He is known for his work The Persistence of Memory and uses a lot of symbolism in his work including the melting clocks, elephants, roses, butterflies,

Some of the items I saw in the free exhibit :

Lithographs of the Dali VOGUE covers from 1938 to 1944.  

Coloured Lithographs of Dali's Flordali I and Flordali II

Drawing is the honest of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. 

It is either good or bad.

~ Salvador Dali