John FitzGerald's photos

It's still Thursday throughout Canada, but in a mere 20 minutes it'll be Friday in Newfoundland and Labrador, so I'm not jumping the gun by much.

Isabella of Angoulême, second wife of King John of England, Countess of Angoulême in her own right, and later by her second marriage Countess of La Marche. West Cast Court, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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This is the coffee shop in the last photo, but on a sunnier day.

I have no new snow shots so here's an old one.

Click the pic or type Z for the large view...if you feel like it eh because I'm not saying like ya hafta. It's not an order eh. Just to be clear.

The Bay Wellington Tower is one of two towers at Brookfield Place in Toronto. The architects for both towers were are Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill LLP with Bregman + Hamann Architects. The towers are joined by the Allan Lambert Galleria, whose architect is Santiago Calatrava. The development was completed in 1992.

The First Waitresses on the Moon by Artemis Bagshaw, Spadina Road, Toronto. Bagshaw primarily works with installations. By choosing mainly formal solutions, Bagshaw seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life. Her installations sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By manipulating the viewer to create confusion, she often creates several practically identical works, upon which thoughts that have apparently just been developed are manifested: notes are made and then crossed out again, ‘mistakes’ are repeated. Her works are based on formal associations which open a unique poetic vein. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. By emphasising aesthetics, she tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer to make new personal associations. Her works are on the one hand touchingly beautiful, on the other hand painfully attractive. Again and again, the artist leaves us orphaned with a mix of conflicting feelings and thoughts.

The weather in Toronto's been crummy again this week, so here's some snow from a couple of years ago. I don't think I've posted this before, though.

Taken in 2013 on University Avenue in Toronto. The bust is of Mary Pickford, who was born on this block. Pickford's first movie was Her First Biscuits . More about her here: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mary-pickford

Nassau Street, Toronto, at Bathurst. The PiP at top left shows another view of Nassau in winter.

Looks juicier big (click the pic or press Z to see if you agree).

Submitted to the Vintage Photos Theme Park in the category "Friends", as a theme about people. This was also the Theme Park's first theme. ========== It's about time I restored this. I believe the Doris Hedine in this photo is the Doris Hedine of Winthrop, MN, who worked overseas for the US Department of Agriculture for many years. About Doris MacArthur I have unfortunately been able to find nothing. The Cataract Hotel is now the Old Cataract Hotel. It has housed many important people over the years, including Tsar Nicholas II, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, and François Mitterrand. As people pointed out to me when I posted this before, Agatha Christie may have written Death on the Nile while staying there, and parts of the novel are set in the hotel. Today it looks as if the boulder Doris and Doris were sitting on has been replaced by a concrete pad for sunbeds, as we see at this link: www.ahstatic.com/photos/1666_homom_00_p_1024x768.jpg I bought this photo at the weekly St. Lawrence Market collectibles show in Toronto.