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Fall is really one of Toronto’s best seasons #TOphoto

A picture of someone playing baseball and people lounging in the Grange Park with Will Alsops OCAD building in the distance and some skyscrapers and some deciduous trees that are turning red and yellow

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Curly dock y’all. If I ever make a trance EDM album it’s going to have its Latin name which is RUMEX CRISPUS

A pile of the native plant curly dock in a well mulched, a red cedar bed with its green broad leaves

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And not unrelated , I feel like we need a photo of a cake counter to bolster spirits. This is Au Merveilleux de Fred which has meringue base and chocolate and fruit cream pastries. Heavenly.

A shot of a pastry counter with trays on a red marble base showing some large cakes with chocolate shavings and some smaller cakes with chocolate or nut shavings in a dome shape

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Signing off tonight with Vince. We still love 🥰 you.

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Norseman Street, Toronto. Peter’s wins, hands down.

The Norseman Community school and pool that is a red brick 1960/ building with a cracked concrete parking lot

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I’m not a royalist but I approve of this Queen Mother. Queen West.

An angled view of the Queen Mother Cafe that is a Victorian building with painted green and red accents and dormer windows. Two guys in blue shirts are eating lunch in the front bay window and two people are walking by the cafe.

A red and white bike is parked at the front

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The dahlias of D’Arcy Street . Far more beautiful IRL because I was shooting over a high hedge. But the colours are still unforgettable.

Hey, The Lounge de Play, and So Broken Pompom, nous sommes very problème, Evan Reddish P!nk, Dali and Ape T. Contrac and Red break House

More reddish dahlias that were shot with their bushes with large flower heads. There are a lot of green leaves in the foreground, cause I was on my tippy toes to shoot these around the bush. There is a brown brick house in the background.

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Normalize using fall ornamental kale in your plantings / planters. #Bloomscrolling

A chrysanthemum planter in a brown concrete planter on Simcoe Street with some chrysanthemums in pink, orange and yellow, and some coleus that’s going down and some fake branches in the middle. There is two spheres of ornamental kale for contrast.

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The greenhouse was once called the Palm House as I assume it housed tropical plants. Here’s a postcard of it from 1915.

A postcard of the mostly glass building called the palm house with a main dome and four corners with smaller turrets with two people in front and a coral blue sky

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One more photo of the Allan Gardens Greenhouse. It is truly a magical place where light comes to life.

A photo of a crowd waiting to enter the side entrance of the Allan gardens greenhouse that has a double glass lintel in a pedal design and a glass roof. There is a sandwich board that says ‘culture talks’ and a person in front in a coral tshirt . The sky above is very blue with a strong autumnal sun.

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A study in facadism and scarlet. Church Street.

À Victorian building with three parts to it and two sets bright red doors and arched windows and particularly fancy windows and lintels on the top floor. With a blue coloured condo behind it and a red station wagon in front

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Signing off tonight with one of my feet on the transgender 🏳️‍⚧️ flag crosswalks of Toronto’s Queer Village on Church Street.

A black slip on vans crosses a crosswalk with the light blue pale fuchsia and white of the transgender flag with a car and more sidewalk in the distance

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And so the infrastructure propaganda begins. I mean I’m happy for shovels in the ground but besides the awful logo.. this seems performative.

A poster at the Bloor GO station with both Canada and Ontario branding that says BUILDING BUILD A CANADA * CANADA STRONG

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Also , Allan Gardens greenhouse is one of our most wonderful treasures.

A Victorian greenhouse with a glass dome and two glass turrets. In the foreground their is a pollinator garden and people waking at the festival

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Some scenes from the garlic 🧄 festival:

A wagon full of orange five pound bags of music garlic

A fancy garlic wr ark with ranunculus on a grey bar board with green trees in the background

A spit with roasted garlic James and pickles

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@iuliabadescu.bsky.social and I were just talking about this place. The Pride Progress and Trans flags at the entrance to The 519 2SLGBTQIA+ Centre. #PrideMonthAllYear

Four pride progress flags and two trans flags anging from a red brick holding with arched windows on both stories .

On the left side of the photo there are some condos in the distance and a red petunia planter on a street light that also has light up HIV ribbons.

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I’ll get to the Garlic 🧄 Festival photos later but I passed by one of the most meaningful memorials in Toronto on Church Street today. The Garden of the Lost Boys. For those who had died during the HIV epidemic.

A garden with a marble statue on a plumes and a lot of hydrangeas vh a building with vines on it.

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The chair that tells stories.

A wooden chair with a black vinyl back with graffiti on its seat and a black milk crate on a sandy ground . In the background there is a graffitied wall in the colours of black, red, green, pink, blue, white and yellow.

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GTA #craftsky. It’s next weekend at OKOkay on Sousa Mendes in the Junction Triangle.

A pyramid of light, green purple and red yarns on a chair with a white backdrop with a sign that says Yarn and Fabric Sale Deadstock Yarn and cotton remnants Oct 3rd 10-4 , Oct 4 11-3

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In the #WaroftheRoses , the lack of frost has made the West End a fertile combing ground for added ammunition, @dbcurren.bsky.social

Six fading pink roses and their dark green oval leaves in front of a red brown brick house and a rectangular window reflecting the sun

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The warm butter knife Spelled the words of my longing Captured on the ground

A heart with the initials S + C is engraved on a new concrete slab on a sunny sidewalk

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Lose yourself in all these reflections #TOphoto

Photo of a blue windowed condo that has a reflection of another white condo with a condo under construction with a red crane behind it with the sky of a setting sun

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There’s a thread going around about the fact that it’s hard to find female character actors that aren’t hot. And Miriam Margolyes was mentioned and I’m defending her honour because she was an absolute smokeshow in the 1960s.

Miriam Margolyes wearing a beehive hairdo a coat and fancy drip earrings while smiling

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Very important personal news! First pepper harvest of the year!

A oval red cherry pepper with a long, thick stem being held near a white wood slat garden chair

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Dahlia season. The most wonderful time of the year.

A rosy pink dahlia with a small bloom beside it and bright green leaves

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The pretty pretty poisonous berries of fall

Green, orange, yellow and red nightshade berries hanging from stems with glossy green leaves and the lozenges of a fence in the background

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Stuck at Shoppers and looking at mag covers - this is great graphic design

The cover for foreign affairs with Drumpf and other members of the NATO alliance in black silhouettes and drip

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Canada was a manufacturing leader in hi-fi systems in the 1950s and 1960s. Friends. Romans. Country people. Let me present you the Clairtone G2.

A Clairtone G2 stereo system with two shelf layers, the lower being a turntable and amp plus a box for records the upper shelf beings being something I’m not sure and on either side. There are black spheres that are actually the speakers there are four of them it is against a white wall and a floor that is made of blonde hard wood

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‘Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.’ — Chinua Achebe

A dinner plate hibiscus in the colour of a fading red pink grows near two buds with some brick houses in the background

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Just want to say there’s more great textile art than the Bayeux Tapestry. The Textile Museum of Canada here in T.O. has some works by Utkuhiksalingmiut Inuk artist Jesse Oonark like this one.

A very large circular tapestry hanging about a young girl on a blue background with stylized heads of her family members embroidered in tones of red and beige . Here’s the provenance info: Jessie Oonark Untitled (Young Woman, Ulus, Birds and Figures) (c. 1973) Wool stroud, felt and embroidery floss 189 x 190.5 cm

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