I love Mt Pleasant Ave. It’s vintage Toronto. It still has two movie theatres, lots of interesting one of a kind shops, tons of restaurants and until last Wednesday, Penrose Fish and Chips. Unfortunately, Penrose is now closed forever. Any business, that has been in business for 64 years, deserves a lot of credit, especially […]
This is my second post on the ninth celebration of Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Oct 4/5, 2014. For me this all night Art show has always been about the people and the magic that it brings to the ordinary, everyday landscape of the city. For example, this Henry Moore sculpture took on a totally different
Last Night from 7:00pm to 7:00am Toronto hosted its ninth annual Nuit Blanche – an all night Art “party,” in various pods around the city, that is totally free!! I have gone out for everyone of them and they are amazing. Each year is different. Often the locales change; the installations always change; however, the
I try to avoid rush hour in the city. I am not a patient person in a queue and I am always looking for an escape. Unfortunately, last night, I had to take my son downtown about 6:00pm to deliver a piece of artwork to a client. That meant gridlock down and back, sigh! I
The cold and rain this summer is matched only by last winter’s -24C temperatures and its blinding snowstorms. Sigh!! We had planned an outing Saturday with the kids at BMO field and guess what? – it rained!! Canada is hosting FIFA’s International Women Under 20 Soccer Cup – or something like that. Next year we
It’s raining again today and we are halfway through July so the farmer in me says, it’s been a wet July or a wet summer so far. I think that we have watered the garden once this year, sometime in June. Sigh! Actually, when it rained Sunday morning, I am sure a lot of people
Have you ever had one of those days when everything seems to go wrong? Well yesterday was one of them for me. It started with a note on my windshield about parking to close to a driveway. I may have written before about permit parking, street parking and parking pads. It’s an ongoing battle. 1.
I left work early today because it was such a beautiful day!! Actually, I did make an early morning meeting sponsored by our BIA on how to use Twitter to promote your business and other businesses or individuals in your circle(s), so I think that I can justify leaving an hour or two earlier at
Last night we drove out to Etobicoke to visit friends for dinner. They had moved, so we looked up their new address in Goggle maps to get directions. My husband, not a Toronto native, relies heavily on Google maps, I rely heavily on the Gardiner Expressway. Gardiner eclipsed by a speeding Go train I read
Left hand turns, while driving, a car can be tricky!! I remember chatting to people who had just learned to drive and laughing at the circuitous routes they took to get from A to B, in order to avoid a left hand turn. Driving is supposed to speed things up. I could have walked there
