A front garden of clusters of large, purple irises with ruffled translucent petals, back-lit by the sun. There's lots of green foliage, including a tall leafy tree. The strong backlighting from the sun in the upper right creates a bright lens flare, tinging the tree leaves framing it purple. A bit of sidewalk and paving bricks appear in the bottom right corner.

#Stunday #SensoryArt #LightFlare #AlphabetChallenge #Layers

Morning iris dazzle - June 2025

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✨1972/March 14, 2026 – Looking southeast towards the corner of Dundas St E and Church St in the Garden District of Toronto.

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A streetcar shelter packed with suitcases, boxes, and personal items. The glass is reflecting a streetcar passing on the opposite side of the street. Inside the shelter is a transit system map, an arrival display, and an ad for spaghetti sauce showing a hand holding a ladel that's pouring tomato sauce over a bowl of spaghetti. An OPEN HOUSE sign is also being reflected. There's a car parked behind the shelter

#UrbanGaze #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers

Streetcar/shelter - Saturday

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Two story, aged brick building in an alley, with randomly arranged multicolour bricks of yellow, grey orange, red and black. There are gridded block glass windows on the ground floor on either side of a metal gate door. The second floor has two three-paned windows. Conduit pipes run up the side of the building. Almost half the image below is worn, textured asphalt, showing layers of pavement, and there are two rusty storm drains. A small amount of snow lines the curb in front of the building.

#WallsOnWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #ColorADay #RedWed #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers

Alley business - last Wednesday

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Colourful graffiti on the wall and metal mesh door gate of a brick building in an alley. A blue cat head on white sideways letters, orange bubble letters with white outlines over layers of tags on the gate a large black bubble letter T outlined in pink and other tags here and there. The curb is visible below.

#TagTuesday #AnimalArtTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLayers

Alley cat handiwork - Wednesday

#Phonetography
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✨ Between 1920-26/January 18, 2025 – Looking southeast along Queen St W, between Bay St and York St in downtown #Toronto.

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Looking downhill through fog at street lined on either side with large bare trees and a continuing series utility wires stretching across the street all the way down. Visibility fades further down the street. A streetlamp pops into frame on the left

Mist connections - Feb 2026

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A mosaic of cracks in smooth wet pavement, speckled and stained white in places from winter salting. The lower right part is reflecting light. A few grains of salt are visible. A black dot surrounded by cracks resembles an eye.

#blueskyartshow #stone #classicmono #alphabetchallenge #weekkforkaput

Cracking down - Feb 2026

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✨1972/February 15, 2026 – Looking northeast towards the corner of Front St E and Scott St, in the St Lawrence neighbourhood of Toronto.

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A pink flyer stapled to a tagged wood utility pole with a brightly multicoloured mural covered siding wall and curb in an alley lane behind. The flyer is a black ink graphic of a crying skull with heart-shaped eyeholes and a corded rotary telephone receiver up to its ear and mouth. The voice in the receiver is saying "confess your yearning" under the skull is the words FOR I HAVE YEARNED, and under that is "a night of poetry"

#ShowHeart #WackyWednesdayArt #WallsOnWednesday

Close call - today

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#whatthe #eck #streetsofToronto #foundhearts #WordfulWednesday #vampireskullshavefeelingstoo #howaboutanilikeyouhaiku #alley

✨1955/March 14, 2026 – Looking northeast towards the corner of Dupont St and Davenport Rd, in The Annex neighbourhood of Toronto.

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✨March 30, 1937/March 10, 2024 – Looking northeast from the corner of Elizabeth St and Hagerman St in downtown Toronto.

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✨Between 1980s-93/February 15, 2026 - Looking southeast towards Shuter St from Yonge St in the Downtown Yonge area of #Toronto.

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Looking up a dark residential street during a power outage. A row of traffic posts with reflective tape on the bottom left are the most visible objects. Part of an A-frame house is across the street on the right, dim glints of parked cars, a barely visible large tree, a street lamp forget in the background, and the faint glow of traffic from a street in the distance.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekKforKaput #MinimalMonday

Neighbourhood power outage - March 2026

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#whatthe #eck #streetsofToronto #postlight #oohshiny

✨1963/ 2026 – Looking northeast along King St E, from east of Yonge St, in the St Lawrence neighbourhood of #Toronto.

Archive Photo Credit: City of Toronto Archives, Ellis Wiley fonds, Fonds 124, File 01, Item 99

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✨1952/January 3, 2026 – Looking northeast on Court St, between Toronto St and Church St, in the St Lawrence neighbourhood of #oToronto.

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On a concrete brick-paved sidewalk, a purple transparent plastic dog poop bag covered in little purple hearts and probably filled with dog poop. There's a red and white arrow sticker on it.

#ShowHeart #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition #SensoryArt #Animals #Scape

🎶And they called it.... poopy looove... 🎶 - yesterday

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✨Between 1930-35/January 3, 2026 – Looking southeast from Yonge St along Bloor St E, in the Yorkville and Church-Wellesley neighbourhoods of Toronto.

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✨1907/January 3, 2026 – Looking north up Toronto St from King St E, in the St Lawrence neighbourhood of Toronto.

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Nos 758 - 766 Queen St E 3.

Canon EOS 5DS
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Silver EFEX Pro

#toronto #streetsoftoronto #photographersofbluesky #photographersunited #blueskyartshow #blackandwhite #originalphotography #photography #architecture

No 25 King St W 2 Color Version.

Canon EOS 60D
Sigma 17-70mm f2.8 DC Macro OS
Lightroom

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The word FUN in yellow art deco lettering on blue and purple background with two thin yellow crescents on the side of a building with large, multipaned windows and a blue awning. There are two bare trees in front. The windows are reflecting the two story buildings across the street and a parked black suv. One of the businesses has a B.M.O. blue awning with a yellow sign above and red letters. Next to it is part of the red awning of a Rogers store. There's blue sky above them.

#BlueSkyMonday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekJforJuxtaposition

Funflection - captured Wednesday

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✨Circa 1888/February 15, 2026 – Looking northwest towards the corner of Adelaide St E and Victoria St, in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood of #Toronto.

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✨1972/February 15, 2026 – Looking southwest towards the corner of Dundas St E and Church St in the Garden District of Toronto.

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A vibrant, iridescent rainbow-colored sheen of oil or gasoline on a wet asphalt. The liquid has pooled in a shallow puddle, and the thin film creates a psychedelic, swirling pattern of blues, purples, greens, and oranges due to light interference. The rough texture of the dark gray and brown ground is visible beneath and around the colorful patch. The top of an old building is reflected in the water in the top left of the image.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Flow

Slick spectrum blend - Feb 2026

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#eck #streetsofToronto #psychedelicspill #funpuddle #swirly

✨February 13, 1980/February 15, 2026 – Looking northeast along Church St from south of Queen St E in the Garden District of #Toronto

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✨1919/March 23, 2025 – Christie Mansion at 100 Wellesley St W and Queens Park Cres E in the Bay-Cloverhill area of #Toronto.

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✨Between 1914-18/February 15, 2026 – Looking west along King St W from Yonge St in Toronto’s Financial District.

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Two-image photocollage L: Salmon-orange and gold sunset sky reflecting down street of low-rise condos which are also reflecting off windows across the street. R: Almost full moon rising above large bare tree reflecting the salmon-orange glow of the sunset. Streetlamps are visible. Power lines run across image.

#BlueSkyMonday #SensoryArt #Time

Sunset/moonrise moment - yesterday

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#EastCoastKin #streetsofToronto #glowflection #cyclically

✨Circa 1927/January 18, 2025 – Looking northeast along Front St W from York St in the Financial District of downtown Toronto.

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