Over the years there have been a number of “interventions” done in Toronto in the name of public space. There have been “Parking Meter Parties” on car free day where people pay the meter at a parking space and then, … Continue reading Pull Up A Seat Challenge #15: Playing in the Street
Here in Ontario, our winters get pretty cold. Even now in November we’ve already seen a little snow and subzero temperatures and we haven’t even started winter officially yet. Toronto is situated on the edge of Lake Ontario, the 13th … Continue reading Lens Artists Photo Challenge: Splash
Saturday we had some strange weather around sunset. It made for some wild views out our window. What a great coincidence that this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge is “Window”: Continue reading Lens-Artists Challenge #14: Window
It’s Monday morning and I am wide awake at 4:00 AM. Even though it’s only been about six hours, I can’t sleep any more. The previous Friday a mandatory meeting was called for noon and if you looked at the … Continue reading Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: People at Work
Toronto is growing. It’s growing a little bit day by day as skyscraper foundations are dug and old buildings are demolished. As all of these things happen, the remains are being loaded in to trucks and driven to the east end of the city and then south toward the lake a road called Leslie Street. Continue reading Photo a Week Challenge: Water
Albuquerque rests in the shadow of Sandia Crest, 3255 metres high (10,679 feet), 5000 feet above the high desert of the city. After seeing it there so long, Daegan and I decided we were going to climb it. Continue reading Photo Challenge: Top of the Hill
The word that jumped out at me was “Ferry” this week. Perhaps because I didn’t do a long bike ride this summer, but I instantly thought of last summer’s bike trip from Montreal, down through New York state, across Vermont, and then back north to Quebec and across to Montreal. To get from Plattsburgh, New York to Vermont we had to cross Lake Champlain. This required that we use two ferries. Continue reading Which Way Photo Challenge: Crossing Lake Champlain
