John FitzGerald's photos

London, Ontario has many attractive old buidlings of white brick with carved gable trim and bargeboards. The carved tree trunk is a memorial to C. S. Hyman, for whom the street was named; the carver was Neil Cox. For more information about Hyman, you can click the PiP at top left, which will take you to a description of his many accomplishments. London, by the way, has an official tour of carved tree trunks, but I think you're meant to just drive around to the trees yourself. Save some time and just drive along Hamilton Road in southeast London, where almost all the tree trunks are. But, of course, we can't admit that it's a southeast London project, can we? When I tell people the neighbourhood in southeast London I grew up in they jump back as if I'm going to rob them. But its reputation is a highly exaggerated version of the truth. Anyway, if you drive along Hamilton Road you can also visit the Buddhist centre in the other PiP. Here's the city's information about the tour: www.londontourism.ca/treetrunktour/#Artists

Submitted for the Vintage Photos Theme Park theme, Something Fishy . From the back of the postcard: Kenora is the northern gateway to Lake of the Woods, with its 14,632 islands and 65,000 miles of shoreline."Huskie" [sic] is a replica of the muskellunge (or muskie), one of the many fighting fish found in these waters, It is located in Kenora's McLeod Park, is 40 feet tall, and at 2 1/2 tons weighs 64 times more than the world's record muskie (70 lbs.). Actually, 2 1/2 short tons is 71 times 70 lbs. A rare example of the fishing community underestimating.

Looking along Wellington St. across John St. The structure in front is a promotion for the CN Tower; it is not part of the tower itself, which is farther south,

Memories,. conscious or unconscious, of René Magritte may have influenced this shot. Well. of course they did.

Leaside, Toronto

King & University. Another street photo fitting rdhinmn's description. A vertical split with different views on each side.

Bay Street and Lake Shore Boulevard, Toronto, 2011.

It’s Election Day in Canada! Will the PPC take votes from the CPC? Did Shachi Kurl’s ( not Scaachi Koul’s) question at the English-language leaders’ debate hand QC to the BQ? Will the CPC slogan alienate UCP voters in AB? Has the WE scandal hurt the LPC? And with Jagmeet Singh being so popular why isn’t the NDP? I dunno. What am I, some kind of psychic? My crystal ball's at the cleaner's,anyway(s). I'm hoping for another minority government, though. Not only do they seem to be more productive but they are also way more entertaining.

A Valu-mart other than the one I usually shop at. I love their look.

Back at the Richmond Hotel (an earlier view is in the PiP at upper left).

The Rogers Centre, a baseball stadium and hotel, opened in 1989. It was designed by Rod Robbie and Michael Allen. It originally included a hotel, but that has been sold separately.

London, Ontario, Canada. Red = Liberal Orange = New Democrat Green = Green I just realized this fits the description of many of my photos made by rdhinmn two days ago: divided into two by a strong line, like the bus shelter post, with very different cityscapes on either side. I must look into Bob's description further.

Posted for the Vintage Photos Theme Park's theme "On the beach". Me apparently being a captivating beach conversationalist at Plage-Laval, Quebec. Sweet Caps were the most popular cigarette in Canada at the time. They lasted till 2011 in Canada; American Sweet Caps were lost in the mists of time by then.

Labour Day, 2021, in London, Ontario, Canada. No parade this year, again. Please try the full-screen view (type Z, then click the frame icon at top right).

This well could have been inspired uncosciously by memories of Gary Lee-Nova's Menthol Filter Kings : vancouverartinthesixties.com/archive/80

...and a good weekend.