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Francesca Bouaoun
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Toronto/Scotland.
Art, nature, city walks, probably birds.
Museums + archives. Travelling Fifer.
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📍 Liberty Village #Toronto
Sunrise over the Toronto waterfront with vibrant orange, yellow, and pink tones across the sky. The Toronto islands and the city skyline are in the foreground.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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“Kensington Market will do what it always does and adapt”

Good one to watch with the Toronto crowd, the evening ending on a unexpectedly optimistic tone.
#Toronto
Black and white photo of two people sitting on plastic chairs on the sidewalk in front of a store in Kensington Market, facing the viewer. Text underneath reads “Kensington Market: Heart of the City. 104 mins, Canada, 2024.” Filmmaker Stuart Clarfield speaks on stage after a film screening at TIFF lightbox.
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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📍 Christie Pits Park

Plenty of folks walking by and stopping to admire the sky.
#Toronto
View down a grassy slope where three people are seated, looking onto to baseball diamond in the corner of a Toronto park. The sky is orange and yellow on the horizon as sun sets.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I was reminded yesterday by @martinreis.bsky.social about this beautiful work he created on the former West Island, Ontario Place in Dec 2023.

Fallen leaves cut into heart shapes, pressed in books, sewn with red and green cotton thread, words added with a manual typewriter.

“Leaf me be”
#Toronto
Orange leaf cut into a heart shape and hanging on a string of cotton thread in a clearing surrounded by trees. Words pressed into the leaf “leaf me be”. A string of organe, red, and yellow leaves cut into heart shapes, hanging in lakeshore park by a path through an open grassy slope. The Ontario Place Cinesphere is visible in the background. A string of organe, red, and yellow leaves cut into heart shapes, hanging in lakeshore park by. Thick tree trunk. In the background, two people are sitting by the shore. A string of organe, red, and yellow leaves cut into heart shapes, hanging between two trees on the waterfront. A pair or white muskoka chairs face out onto the lake, looking down onto a pebble beach.
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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📍 Trillium Park, Ontario Place
#Toronto

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Snow-covered trees on the Toronto shoreline. A floating wooden dock by a break wall is also covered in snow. The sky is overcast. A large pair of moccasins carved into a wall by a path in a park, surrounded by tall evergreen trees. Art work is part of the moccasin identifier project. Snow covers the carving and the tree branches. Two Canada geese swim by a small bay of still water on the Toronto shoreline. The rocks on the shore are covered in the snow. A tall tree branches with leaves in autumn foliage frames the view. Paved path through a park on the Toronto waterfront surrounded by mixed trees in autumn foliage. Snow covers the ground and tree branches.
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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📍 Coronation Park #Toronto

Two days later.
Open grassy area covered in snow in a park on the Toronto waterfront surrounded by mixed tall trees in autumn foliage. Two people walking along a paved path covered in snow on Toronto waterfront. The path is lined with tall trees in autumn foliage. A park bench overlooking the Toronto waterfront in an open park area covered in snow. Branches of a tall tree with yellow leaves is hanging overhead. Still water inside a break wall on the Toronto waterfront, with snow gently falling. Trees in autumn foliage line the trillium park shoreline in the distance.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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So glad to catch Sinners on screen as The Revue unveiled their new 70mm projector.

Wow, that score and soundtrack 🔥
Stylised poster for Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners, with an illustration of Michael B. Jordan’s character surrounded by flames, looking down over a group of vampires.
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Inaugural snow dip of the season - when the water is warmer than the air.
#Toronto
A woman with brown hair in braids, wearing a green wool hat and turquoise swimming top, standing in front of the lake where it is gently snowing. A large tree with yellow autumn leaves o rocky shoreline on Lake Ontario with snow. Snow has also covered a pebble beach and several large pieces of driftwood. Tree-lined rocky shoreline on Lake Ontario with snow covered leaves in autumnal foliage, and cloudy snowy sky. Logs are burning in a small fire on a pebbled beach. Tree-lined rocky shoreline on Lake Ontario with snow covered leaves in autumnal foliage, and cloudy snowy sky.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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📍 Coronation Park #Toronto
Open grassy in a park on the Toronto waterfront surrounded by mixed tall trees in autumn foliage. A group of people walking along a paved path on the Toronto waterfront, lined with tall trees in autumn foliage. Sun is shining through the leaves. Two people sitting on a bench overlooking the Toronto waterfront. A tall tree with yellow leaves is hanging overhead on the waterfront path. View over still water inside a break wall on the Toronto waterfront. Trees in autumn foliage line the trillium park shoreline in the distance.
November 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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November palette.
#Toronto
Tall trees in autumn foliage on a Toronto residential street lined with brick houses. Overcast sky. Intersection of a residential street in Toronto with a cafe on the corner. Street lamps illuminating the wet roads and sidewalks. Overcast late afternoon sky. A small cafe and shop on a residential street in Toronto, surrounded by low rise brick buildings. The warm light from the shop is illuminating the wet sidewalk in front. Overcast late afternoon sky. Two people walking along a paved path through Christie Pits Park in Toronto. Tall trees in autumn foliage line the path. Overcast late afternoon sky.
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Already the walking commute ends in the dark.

#Toronto
View over Christie Pits park in Toronto with trees in autumn foliage and the CN Tower in the skyline in the distance. Brick houses on a residential street in Toronto. Tall trees in autumn foliage line the sidewalk and the sky is overcast with the pink tinge of sunset. Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Holy Protection of the Mother of God in Toronto, surrounded by trees in autumn foliage. Patches of cloud in a dusk sky overhead with pink light of sunset on the horizon. A parking lot by a subway station entrance in Toronto with low rise brick buildings on either side. Patches of cloud in a dusk sky overhead with pink and orange light of sunset on the horizon.
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Autumn around the Archives.
#Toronto
A row of brick houses on a Toronto street with a tall tree in autumn foliage in front. View through branches with red and yellow leaves, looking up to Casa Loma at the top of a hill. View looking up at tree branches covered in orange leaves. The entrance to the Toronto Archives building, viewed through tree branches covered in orange leaves.
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Thank you for screening this tonight @uoftcities.bsky.social

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“people tend to sit where there are places to sit”

Forty plus years on, still asking for this to be a ubiquitous and essential amenity for public space/daily life.
William H. Whyte standing on a street in New York City holding a film camera. Overlaid typed text reads: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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The light of late in the Annex.
#Toronto
Very tall trees on a residential Toronto street with leaves in yellow autumn foliage, illuminating by late afternoon sun. Tall trees at the intersection of a residential Toronto street. Leaves in yellow autumn foliage, illuminated by late afternoon sun in a patchy cloudy sky. White concrete futuristic apartment block designed by Uno Prii, with sweeping vertical lines between balconies which flare out near the lower floors. A tall on a residential Toronto street with leaves in yellow autumn foliage, illuminated by late afternoon sun in a patchy cloudy sky.
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Earlier sunsets and dramatic light in November skies.

Thinking of this landscape and all of the time spent on the (former) West Island of Ontario Place, November 2023.

#Toronto
Six landscape scenes across the West Island at Ontario Place. People walking and standing along a pebble beach, people walking and cycling along a waterfront tree-lined path, trees illuminated by lamps and string lights in the park, and a scene of the tree-covered island from the mainland at sunset. Six landscape scenes across the West Island at Ontario Place. Trees illuminated at dusk by park lamps and string lights, a pebble beach in a small tree-lined bay, a person cycling down a grassy hill at dusk, a person paddling in a channel of water by the mainland, and the Cinesphere covered in lights. Six landscape scenes across the West Island at Ontario Place. Trees illumined by string lights, the Japanese Canadian Centennial Temple Bell and Cinesphere lit up at night, pink and orange skies at sunset above the tree-covered park. Six landscape scenes across the West Island at Ontario Place. Sunset over a pebble beach in a small bay, trees in silhouette against the setting sun, a row of muskoka chairs looking out to the lake with a willow tree overhead.
November 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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The overall knafeh screen time is top tier.
Still from a video featuring Zohran Mamdani standing against a counter in a take away shop, holding a paper plate with knafeh. Text in arabic and english reads “to make it easier to open your small business”.
November 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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📍 Trillium Park

Seasonal signs out on the water this morning - white-winged scoters and long-tailed ducks.
#Toronto
A small clearing in a lakeshore Toronto park with trees in vibrant autumn foliage and fallen red leaves covering the ground. View over a wooden pedestrian bridge in a Toronto park, with a dense mixed patch of evergreen and deciduous trees on the other side. Sky overhead is overcast. Paved path along the waterfront in a Toronto park. One side is lined by trees in autumn foliage and large boulders. Another tall tree by the water frames the path. Large stone slabs forming steps leading up to a small clearing in a Toronto park. It is surrounded by dense bushes and trees in autumn foliage. The ground is covered in fallen orange leaves.
November 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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As you reach the end of Strachan Avenue, cross over Lake Shore Blvd, and veer off the Martin Goodman trail to the left - this wee stretch at the edge of Coronation Park always feels to me like a tree-lined gateway to the lakeshore. Trillium Park and the islands on the horizon lie ahead.
#Toronto
A paved path in lakeshore Toronto park, with tall trees in autumn foliage on either side. Morning light in a clear blue sky is illuminating yellow leaves. A paved path in lakeshore Toronto park, with tall trees in autumn foliage on either side. Many fallen orange leaves are are on the ground. The photo is taken one week after the other image in this post.
November 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Still carrying a memento/piece of the lake from A Lake Story
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Raised hand holding a piece of turquoise silk in front of still section of the don river.
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Biidaasige autumnal colour palette
#Toronto
A dense patch of yellow, pink and white flowers in a park by the don river. Red leaves on a small tree by the bank of the don river. Landscaping next to a path through a park by the don river. Raised mound of earth with small trees with vibrant red and orange leaves, and purple flowers. Small trees with yellow and green leaves by the bank of the don river.
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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📍 Biidaasige Park

A new season for the new park. Special to experience it growing through the first autumn.
#Toronto
Pedestrian bridge over calm water of a section of the don river. Shrubs, bushes and small trees in autumn foliage on the other side of the bridge. A tree with yellow and green leaves in a park by the don river, framing a view of the Toronto skyline in the distance. Log on a pebble shoreline of the don river, framed by two small tree with yellow autumnal leaves. A chimney stack is in the distance on the far side of the river. A dark-eyed junco perched on a wooden post. Small bird with pink bill, slate-colored head, neck, body and tail, and a white chest an tail feathers.
November 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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It really is.
Gold heart on the wall of a lookout tower. Text reads: In memory of Claude Cormier / Landscape Architect / 1960-2023
November 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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📍 Leslie Lookout Park

A beautiful morning out in the Port Lands. Full of birders catching a glimpse of a rare sighting in Toronto - there’s currently a razorbill in the ship channel.
#Toronto
View over still water in a ship channel in Toronto. Industrial stacks on either side of the water, and clear blue sky overhead. A razorbill swimming along the water of a ship channel in Toronto. View through an archway in a lookout tower, overlooking the Toronto Port Lands. An artificial sandy beach is at the edge of a ship channel and trees in autumn foliage surround the beach. A group of people are gathered at the edge of the water to view a rare bird. A concrete cylinder lookout tower with arch-shaped viewing areas, next to an artificial sandy beach with trees lining a walkway.
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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At the closing ceremony for the first day of the Good Mourning Festival, with Emily Pleasance of Forest Bathing Club.

Those rocks are from the West Island pebble beach - it was dedicated to the loss of Ontario Place.
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#Toronto
A woman standing with a mic in front of a group of artists in an outdoor pavilion. She is wearing a large red jacket decorated with swirling blue patterns, and looks down onto a circle of rocks in front of her. A pile of rocks arranged into a circle on a patch of grass. A circular sign next to them reads “Grief”. Cardboard cut outs of eyes and leaves pinned onto a brick wall. Words on the wall read “voices for the trees”. A tapestry on a sandwich board with text arranged in an abstract pattern reading “Tend to nature, tend to ourselves”.
November 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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📍 Evergreen Brick Works #Toronto
Groups of people gathered by a pond at the Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto. A hill of trees in autumn foliage and the brick stack of the industrial buildings are in the background. People walking down a path at the Evergreen Brick Works surrounded by trees in autumn foliage. People walking up a path at the Evergreen Brick Works surrounded by trees in autumn foliage. People walking around a path at the Evergreen Brick Works surrounded by trees in autumn foliage.
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM