Had to set the alarm to get myself up to do this; Saturday mornings are typically lie-ins for me. This walk had already been postponed once (last weekend), and the forecast for today called for rain. Not to mention there’s a transit strike on right now, so anyone who didn’t have a car or didn’t [...]

The TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) started striking an hour ago (midnight) with a notice of an hour and a half, and I just started reading the news about it:
Torontonians in shock after transit workers strike
Updated Sat. Apr. 26 2008 12:38 AM ET
Oh boy, this is going to wreak havoc. It’s times like this I’m glad [...]

I missed out on the good weather in Toronto during the week I was in Vancouver, so today has been the most spring-like I’ve seen it this year.
I met with some lovely people this morning for brunch at Joy Bistro, where I had my requisite Eggs Benedict (Norwegian-style this time, with smoked salmon) and a [...]

A whole week completely in the above-zero range, a first for 2008. I walked around High Park today to start the week off right.

I heard about this Improv Everywhere event that took place yesterday, but I don’t usually use the subway on the weekends. Check out the story and links in David Topper’s post in Torontoist:
February 24: We Can Dance If We Want To

Riverdale Farm, Toronto’s urban farmyard (similar to Vancouver’s Petting Zoo in Stanley Park and Maplewood Farm in North Vancouver), is a place I’ve been wanting to visit and shoot since I moved here. I wish I had the Ms here, though! They’d love it!
I didn’t know where Riverdale Park was, exactly, until today when I [...]

One of the many photo projects I’m working on right now is processing the batch I took on December 31 in Nathan Phillips Square. Here are the first three I’ve uploaded thus far, and the rest of the photo album that started with December 2006 and other shots taken over the course of several days [...]

Canadians and Australians: equally crazy, apparently
Referring to this insanity as ‘northern’ when Toronto is one of the southernmost points in the country is rather misleading; it’s well below the 49th parallel. However, it’s still shockingly cold if you have virtually no clothes on and jump into a frigid lake in January. I was plenty clothed [...]

Yesterday, I went to see a film in the middle of the working day, something I’ve never done before. (If feature films were an hour, I’d do it more often!) It was another United Way fundraiser at work — this time about as far from a bake sale as one can get. As a bonus, [...]

There are a few chess tables situated in the park on Queen Street East in front of Metropolitan United Church. One can often find old men congregated there, accusing each other of cheating at chess, banging on timer boxes, and at other times contemplating their next move, chin in hand. Tonight there was also a [...]