Continuously in operation since 1923. Adelaide and Peter Streets in Toronto.
New York Furs
On the River
My sister-in-law has a trailer summer place on the Grand River. Family kiddies love riding bikes around the park, fishing and the little red club car is a big hit.
Acorn
The wonder of small objects on the arm of a weathered Muskoka chair at an Ontario summer cottage by a lake.
Tea Rose
Capturing mainly white flowers is something I find challenging. I loved this luminous rose that I found in the old Courthouse Square in Toronto in July, 2025.
Single Peony
This single peony was sketched in St. James Park in June 2025. 6 X 4 inch sketchbook with coldpressed all cotton 300 gsm and DeSerres watercolour set with waterbrush. Microliner.
Bathurst Loop
There’s a turnaround and transfer point at Bathurst and Queens Quay on Toronto’s waterfront. I sometimes used to transfer to a Bathurst car here when I worked in the King/Bathurst area about 2002-04. But these are new streetcars that take up most of a city block. I first rode these articulated streetcars in 2017-18 I think. I was working for Tapestry Opera in the Distillery District and I’d catch the streetcar on Cherry Street. It was a darn cold place to wait. I wasn’t sure about the new cars. They were easier to get on but they moved in such a herky jerky fashion, people were always losing their footing at first until both drivers and passengers adjusted.
Philosopher’s Walk
Nestled between RMC and the Royal Ontario Museum on Bloor is the entrance to the nicest little footpath through a part of U of T’s downtown campus
Anglican Church of Canada Offices
North of St. James Cathedral there is a row of Victorian offices that run up to Adelaide and around the corner. Built in the same brick as the church, the Court House a block away and St. Lawrence Hall, the original City Hall, these buildings house a number or organization including the Anglican Church of Canada, who used to take up the full structure, I believe. Theres a new church Hall for the Cathedral in blue glass between the old offices and St. James Park.
Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto
I bought myself a sketchbook with a wide format. I’d been admiring other people’s ability to create some wide street scenes. I really had fun with this. I think I’ll use this format a lot in future.
Elmsley Place
This house in Toronto’s Annex was purchased by St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto in 1920 and still serves as student housing. I wanted to sketch it because of it’s Hogwarts feeling and the unique brick buttresses under the upper storey tower room. These days it is connected to two additional houses on the block that collectively house about 70 students in double and single rooms. The Annex was Toronto’s first subdivision and is now a mixed neighbourhood of mansions, frat houses, rooming houses and houses converted into multi-unit dwellings.