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Category Archives: Toronto
The Itchiku Kubota Kimono Exhibit At The Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto
I knew I had to see them for myself as I looked at the screen of my wife Laila’s iPhone. She had just come home from the Itchiku Kubota exhibit at the Textile Museum of Canada on Centre Street in downtown … Continue reading
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Tagged Itchiku Kubota exhibit, kimono painting, Kubota Museum, Mount Fuji kimono, symphony of light kimono
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The Chinese Temple Murals And Statues of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum’s Bishop White Gallery is a corner of the museum I have visited often over the past forty years. It houses a world-renowned collection of Chinese temple murals and Buddhist and Taoist statuary, most of which date … Continue reading
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Toronto’s Main Street In Transition – Yonge From Dundas To The Harbour
See Also: Toronto’s Main Street In Transition – Yonge From Yorkville To Dundas
Walking Down Toronto’s Old Yonge Street – Before It’s Gone! Yorkville to Dundas
Related Posts: See the Toronto folder for more post and pix of my home town. There are all sorts of reasons why Yonge Street dropped off the map of my Toronto in the past decade or two! my music collection went the mp3 route, … Continue reading
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The Last of Autumn’s Colours – A Walk Up Toronto’s Don Valley And Mud Creek
Yesterday was a beautiful fall day in Toronto – a gift I figured I’d acknowledge by grabbing my camera – and our dog Viggo – and going for a long walk up the Don River Valley and then over to the Brickworks and … Continue reading
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Toronto Sunday A.M. – Cycling The Lakeshore To Port Credit
Previous Post: Tall Ships In Toronto Harbour- July 2016 A Sunday morning training run I’ve done a hundred times is the bike ride from my Toronto Riverdale neighbourhood to Port Credit along the lakeshore. The terrain, as the graph below shows, … Continue reading
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Tall Ships In Toronto Harbour – July 2016
Previous Toronto Post: Sakura Hanami: Viewing High Park’s Cherry Blossoms For the three days of Canada Day weekend (July 1-3) the Toronto harbour front hosted a number of boats associated with the Tall Ships America Challenge, an annual celebration of … Continue reading
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Sakura Hanami: Cherry Blossoms In Toronto’s High Park
2018 Peak Bloom – May 9 to 12 (see here) 2017 Peak Bloom – Not Quite There On April 23! 2017 Note! I was there on Sunday morning (the 23rd.) and, while there were hundreds of visitors , the blooms … Continue reading
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Tagged cherry blossom viewing in Ontario, high park best time blossoms, High Park cherry blossoms, HIgh Park cherry tree map, peak cherry blossom time in High Park, Toronto cherry blossom location, toronto high park peak bloom, Toronto peak cherry blossoms, where are the cherry blossoms in high park
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A Winter Morning’s Ramble Up the Don Valley & Moore Park Ravine
Previous Post: January 12, 2016 – Viggo Goes For A Walk As Snow Blankets Toronto’s Riverdale Viggo and I set off at nine this morning. A very light covering of snow and a temperature around 0ºC promised to make for a … Continue reading
January 12, 2016 – Viggo In The Snow As It Blankets Riverdale
Previous Post: Viggo Checks Out Toronto’s First Real Winter Snow – Dec. 2014 I knew Viggo and I were in for a great morning walk even before the laptop was shut and the reading light went off for the night. The … Continue reading
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