Walking down Spadina Road towards St. Clair Avenue West a weekday morning before work, I passed a house where the purple forget-me-nots bloomed under the shade of a tree net yet blossomed into leaves, all in a yard that was held short of the sidewalk by a retaining wall.


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Looking south on the eastbound streetcar island at Spadina and St. Clair Avenue, the only sign of Toronto Water's underground reservoir beneath Winston Churchill Park is the sign (visible, to left).


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Spraypainted on the plywood covering up one of the doors leading to the now-defunct Bonanza Video, on 392 Spadina Road north of St. Clair, is a slogan, radioactivity warning symbol in red and text in black.

FUKUSHIMA
is
HERE;

GE's
URANIUM
SECRET

1025
LANSDOWNE


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lpetrazickis corrected me on the subject of the white-painted bike that was the subject of yesterday's morning photo post. That bike likely wasn't part of the Good Bike Project, but was rather a ghost bike memorializing a fatal accident at that location. To wit:

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I'd blogged back in August 2011 about the Good Bike Project (official Tumblr site), an effort in the summer of 2011 by two Toronto art students to disperse spray-painted bikes across the city. (This June 2011 Toronto Life feature goes into some detail about the project.)

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Standing last Sunday on the island for eastbound streetcars on St. Clair Avenue at Dufferin Street, I saw this white-feathered pigeon calmly strutting about. Two women standing next to me threw it potato chips, quickly getting that since pigeons can't chew they'd have to crumble the chips. The pigeon seemed interested.


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A friend of mine works at Grace Church on-the-Hill, an Anglican church located east of the intersection of Spadina Road and Lonsdale Road, above St. Clair.


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On the evening of the 2nd of October, 2012, I rode the 512 St. Clair streetcar west from its start at St. Clair Station, via St. Clair West Station, to my stop at Oakwood Avenue. The trip of 3.7 kilometres took just over 18 minutes. Looking north out of my window by my seat at the front, this is more-or-less what I saw.

After I picked up Shakespeare's food at St. Clair Veterinary, I crossed the street to the westbound 512 St. Clair streetcar route stop at the intersection of St. Clair Avenue West with Arlington. I was looking east for the streetcar, the only other person on the platform was also looking east, I raised my camera and I snapped a few pictures. This ( Read more... )