This old doghouse has been sitting unused in my parents backyard for years until this year when a couple of feral cats have moved in and are using it as a home base. It is well insulated with styrofoam so I bet they are toasty in there! I took this shot a week ago on a cold clear evening and love how the flash lights up mainly just the snow - it looks as if it is out in the wilderness and not in a city garden.
This is the name of a small commercial building on Adelaide St W which is slowly being surrounded by condo buildings and may itself be on the verge of redevelopment so I though I had better catch their pleasant signage before it is gone. At first I thought it was just a whimsical name but info I found suggests that it was originally built for manufacturing for the Blue Bird Dresses company many years ago and is now occupied by various small businesses. Nice sign.
Taking part in Signs, Signs. Click here for more signs.
I thought I should show you a shot of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) which sits diagonally across the intersection from the Church Of The Redeemer which I showed you on Sunday. This addition to the 1933 museum building, designed by Daniel Libeskind, couldn't be any more of a contrast to the Gothic Revival church. It makes for an interesting corner!
I'm back to the laneway off Ossington Ave which is filled with wonderful murals. This one is so wonderfully colourful to see at this dull time of year that I'm sure you would smile every time you went in or out of your garage. The artist for this piece is Peru 143, aka Peru Dyer Jalea.
Taking part in Monday Murals. Click here for more murals.
This is the Church Of The Redeemer which I gave you a peek of in yesterday's post. This Anglican church was completed in 1879 at Bloor St and Avenue Rd and had a flourishing congregation until the 1970s when faced with mounting debt, the church sold off their land surrounding the building and actually also sold the air rights above the church. This enabled developers to build a condo complex around the church and use the air rights to go higher than would normally be allowed for this site, and enabled the church to do major renovations to this old Gothic Revival structure. This is one of the busiest corners in the city with the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) located diagonally across the intersection and Queen's Park directly south.
It was the nice shadows cast by the metal trim that first grabbed my attention for this shot and then I noticed how this opening frames part of the Church Of The Redeemer so well. Shadows can be so fascinating! I'll show you the whole church and its interesting location tomorrow.
I spotted these 2 figures in neigbouring yards in the Annex 'hood and had to smile. Somehow I don't think that the 2 homeowners have the same aesthetic but they do have a sense of whimsy in putting the pieces back to back. It's nice to have a friend to watch your back!
