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The coloured thermos / the dark comes closer / ktoronto canada / eclectic not eccentric posting
Overlooked -- almost forgotten -- are the two Mid-century Modern tesserae wall-mosaics at John English Community School in Mimico from 1963. The word magnificent barely covers describing the workmanship that went into them. This is the smaller mosaic depicting the birds at roost.
May 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Coltsfoot - tussilago farfara - one of Ontario’s first native signs of spring - Sam Smith Park / joy stumbling on them
April 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Was he in the ER?
March 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
spring inside… outside not so much tbh
March 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I may have bitten off more than I can chew
March 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
With Time Magazine’s recent article it might be worth visiting our country’s not so distant electoral and political history … upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
February 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Doesn’t happen in all wards - this is more like it
February 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This seems like good time to celebrate something special
February 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A city by a lake - February 2025
February 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Gondolas in Venice - September 2022 - I never had an alley free of people ☹️
February 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I accept the assignment — to vote you out of office
February 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Coyote tracks on the lake
A hungry winter
February 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The populace had something to say in the city today
February 4, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Something from Brueghel
Perhaps
Mimico Creek Lake Ontario
January 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Reminds me of the Great Depression a bleak story about the farmer and the banker Punch line is the banker challenges him on which of his eyes is a glass eye. Farmer points at one of the eyes. “How did you guess that!” The farmer says it was the one that was most sympathetic…
January 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It’s public bribery - dishonest self serving malignant abuse of office
January 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Verona 2022
January 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
“Reading Huizinga” by Willem Otterspeer - not a biography but rather “what makes great writing endure” - comes after re-reading Huizinga’s still astounding Waning of the Middle Ages last year / a late winter library discovery!
January 19, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Mimico Creek first skate marks of winter
January 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Dark winter nightfall — it’s a nightmare — “Godzilla is moving”
January 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Morning ride to the Credit - every day is a gift
December 31, 2024 at 11:53 PM
☄️Alarming Poetry Sales My top headline!

This will explain: 2024 re-read Hermann Broche’s Death of Virgil not for the light hearted; Margaret Lawrence’s A Tree for Poverty her 1953 translation of Somali poetry; read C P Cavafy - 2 editions; and reacquainted with J L Borges - not too shabby a run?
December 31, 2024 at 11:15 PM
I’ve been looking for this ripe orange since reviving my marmalade recipe — peel/zest in Dundee cake too - bit surprised they’re not known by wholesalers or at the Food Terminal - anyone tasted one?
December 31, 2024 at 7:24 PM
The light in the city still surprises me and Lake Ontario / I have been thinking how we forget the power of its presence / how it smashes landscapes histories cultures our sense perhaps of how we think of ourselves / any thoughts? artists geographers who’ve written the lake the light so to speak?
December 30, 2024 at 11:38 PM
And a Merry Christmas to all - he’s on his way! Blimey!
December 24, 2024 at 5:32 PM