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The Chinese Temple Murals And Statues of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum
Last updated: August 1, 2022. Table of Contents: The ROM’s Bishop White Gallery – Some Background History The Taoist Temple Frescoes The Lord of the Southern Dipper Fresco The Lord of the Northern Dipper Fresco 2. Wooden Buddhist Temple Figures … 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 posts and pix of my hometown. Yonge Street is Toronto’s main north-south street. The downtown stretch of Yonge Street from just north of Bloor down south to the Harbour – and especially … 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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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
Our Icelandic Sheepdog Viggo In The Snow As It Blankets Riverdale
I knew Viggo and I were in for a great morning walk even before the laptop was shut and the reading light turned off for the night. The weather radar showed bands of blue – that’s snow – coming from Wisconsin … Continue reading
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Festive Lights: My Toronto in Mid-December
Note! My Toronto is only a small slice of an urban sprawl referred to as the Greater Toronto Area. I rarely venture north of Bloor, west of Bathurst, or east of the Beaches. The Danforth from Broadview Avenue to Pape … Continue reading
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