I booked into this Summerlicious event before I went to Vancouver, an inaugural visit to Starfish at 100 Adelaide Street for their $35 prix fixe dinner menu. It’s a good thing I did, too, since I started my seafood kick in Vancouver and I was still craving it after I arrived home. There’s something very [...]

When day meets night, it sets the sky on fire:

Taken from Prospect Point in Stanley Park, Vancouver.

Taken from the Press Box.
The workers are busy converting the field from (gridiron) football to baseball. There was an Argonauts vs. (Hamilton) Tiger-Cats game last Thursday, the Blue Jays are hosting the Baltimore Orioles from Tuesday to Thursday, then the New York Yankees from Friday to Sunday.
You can always tell when I’m travelling: mostly photos [...]

(Written after midnight on Saturday, July 5th.)
What a day! We went sightseeing from 9:00 this morning to midday, taking in a trip up the CN Tower followed by a one-hour tour of the Rogers Centre (formerly Skydome), lunch at Richtree, then it was off to the airport to catch our flight. I just happened [...]

Am I turning into a local now, referring to The King Edward Hotel as the King Eddy?
At 0800 on the nose I entered the lobby to meet with the Japanese family I am looking after during their brief stay in Toronto. I informed them that the King Eddy was popular among businesspeople for breakfast meetings [...]

A couple of my favourite photos after last Sunday’s Pride Parade. I didn’t actually take that many of the parade itself because we were initially waiting on Church Street and apparently the organisers had changed the route! By the time we got wind of that, the parade had already begun and we were unable to [...]

I was running an errand at the Apple store in Eaton Centre when I came across this scene in Dundas Square this evening: tango dancing as the tunes of a band filled the heavy summer evening air.
http://www.luminato.com/festival/eng

This is probably my favourite shot of City Hall thus far (from my cameras, anyway). Taken from Nathan Phillips Square on a chilly Victoria Day holiday Monday night while sightseeing with a couple of visitors and Garry. I took a few film shots with my recently-purchased Chinon CE-4, but I’ll have to finish off the [...]

The long weekend isn’t over yet, but I have a boatload of pictures already. This will be a quick preview while I go through the memory cards.
First of all, the circus is in town from Saturday to Monday:
Toronto International Circus Festival 2008

A couple of short videoclips from this afternoon at the Queen’s Quay Terminal:

Oshiya, or “pusher”, is an informal Japanese term for a worker who stands on the platform of a railway station during the morning and evening rush hours, and pushes people onto the train. This video is a good example of just how crowded it gets on Japanese trains.
–as seen on my “The Best of YouTube” [...]