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January 30, Toronto
Sometimes
Stefan's balcony, Wellesley St., Toronto. January 25
“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.”
― Christopher Morley
January 16 Toronto
“Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
December 20 England
“So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
December 12 Toronto
“If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.”
― Ilona Andrews, Fate's Edge
December 29th England
“December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...”
― John Geddes
December 6 Toronto
Winter.
November 12 Toronto....Royal Agricultural Show
Chicken thoughts.....
"Chicken thoughts arrive in their tiny mad little minds like flashes of a strobe light, each light being an action, each flashing with the brilliance of a not very brilliant thing."
-Jeffrey Russell, The Duneoneers
November 6
Some of my street photos in Edge of Humanity Mag.
http://edgeofhumanity.com/2015/11/06/cc/
Roxy at Te Aro, November 5 Toronto
“Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere
October 29 Davey at the gym, Toronto
“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
October 20 Toronto
Simone in her favourite place.
“Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.”
― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
October 19 Toronto
“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
October 3 Toronto
“There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
September 13 Downtown airport, Toronto
“Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.”
― Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
September 12 Navy Pier, Chicago
“Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.”
― k.d. lang
September 12 Navy Pier, Chicago
Ghost city skyline
September 11 Millennium Park, Chicago
The Bean.....Hello Bean.....
September 10 Chicago
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
September 1 Queen St. West, Toronto.
"Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city.”
― Nathan Reese Maher
August 22 Toronto
Sweating it out all week. I need a hot shower. It's like a regular shower but with me in it.
August 1 Bellagio, Las Vegas
Keep going.....
July 31 Navajo Nation, Arizona
Mary Williams in Gray Mountain.
July 31 Bellagio, Las Vegas
Sensory overload and some sculptures by Richard MacDonald
“Truth is for life; lies are for entertainment.”
― M Chapman
July 29 Arizona
“That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
July 28 Painted Desert, Arizona
'... because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
July 20 Riverside, Toronto
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
July 2 Royton Market, England
“I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.”
― Nicole Krauss, Great House
July 2 Royton Market, England
Maybe she found what she was looking for.
June 15 Toronto
“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
June 20 Toronto
Simone modelling for my new camera.....her patience was exemplary, which was unusual.
Perhaps it was ennui, perhaps it was resignation or maybe she just wanted me to see her beauty from another angle.
June 12 Toronto
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness
June 1 Toronto
All the love in the world.
May 19 Toronto
Orpheus and Euridice
April 25 Toronto
Living in the moment
April 23 Toronto
“The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.”
― Janette Rallison, My Fair Godmother
April 20 Toronto
Pour trouver la liberté, aller à l'intérieur...
April 16 Toronto
“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― Maya Angelou, All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
April 12 Toronto
“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg
April 4 Distillery District, Toronto
Rust never sleeps.
March 27 Toronto
My cat brought me breakfast in bed.
March 24 Toronto
“There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night
March 17 Driving into Toronto
“For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
March 16/17 Niagara on the Lake
“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”
― Tony Hillerman, Coyote Waits
March 12 Toronto
'The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.'
-Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
March 11 AGO, Toronto
'I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.'
-Jean-Michel Basquiat
March 2 Toronto
'In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.'
-Henry Rollins
