I was skimming through the paper today, when I came across an article that actually mentioned my street. This is rare. The article was about the tricky business of street parking. We live in the inner city, in an area that was probably developed in the late 1920’s or early 30’s. This means that they […]
Yesterday I posted about the all night Art party that Toronto has hosted for the last 8 years, Nuit Blanche. I had taken a few more pictures, so this post will be more of an album of the evening. I’m still behind a few posts in my blog-a-day challenge for 2013. I hope that you
Last Saturday was Toronto’s 8th Nuit Blanche, an amazing all night Art event. From 7:00pm to 7:00am huge crowds fill the downtown areas of the city to view an incredible array of art installations. My husband and I have gone out every year, rain or shine. This time, the weather was almost balmy, with just
……..this iconic cottage chair was originally known as the Westport plank chair and was designed by Thomas Lee in 1903. As the story goes, Lee showed the design to a local carpenter, Harry Bunnell, who in need of some winter revenue, secured a patent for the chair and started manufacturing it, en masse in 1905.
I have to believe that you may be defined by the fairy tales that you have read, either to yourself or to your children. I always read “The Little Red Hen” to my kids. It’s a story of Russian origin with strong entrepreneurial, even capitalist overtones. I’m not really the “Donald Trump” of mothers, but
This is really cool. At a bus stop in Montreal there are 21 musical swings for people to use night or day. Here is a description of the installation from the goodnewsnetwork – A team of Montreal designers whose goal is to bring magic to everyday events, has placed an interactive installation of musical swings
With the screening of TIFF”s The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby this year (2013), I am reminded of the song Eleanor Rigby, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded by the Beatles. A quick Google search brought me to an amazing article published in the Daily Mail about a person who might have been
2013 has been declared the anniversary year of the T-shirt. Apparently in 1913 the US navy issued T-shirts, as undergarments, to its sailors and well things just evolved from there. An article in the Toronto Star this morning on the evolution of the T-Shirt describes how it has gone from white undergarment to celebrated overgarment
I have to acknowledge in a post the passing of a famous Canadian artist Alex Colville. I have always loved his work. His paintings belong to the school of photo-realism, I understand. Maybe that’s why I love his work so much. Although they are paintings, they look like surreal photographs that tell a story. To
