Near Bloor and Bathurst, there’s a beauty not to mess with.
Pics taken by Resa – May 28, 2017
Toronto, Canada
Artist: Unknown at this time
Tag: Toronto Outdoor Art
Read, Watch & Travel
Reading is wonderful!
Watching TV, whether series, movies, music videos, virals or documentaries is entertaining and relaxing. Networked, streamed or on DVD is fab.
Toronto’s Red Rocket (public transportation) won’t take you across the ocean, but it symbolizes traveling from here to there.
Ste J Reviews covers all.
Pics taken by Resa – May 14, 2017
Toronto, Canada
⭐ Thank you ⭐ Ste J for the 2 book reviews you contributed to “Kids’ Month”! Book To The Future, Ste J’s blog, is a great place to spend time with a nice hot cup of tea or coffee. He’s a wonderful writer who can relay his thoughts cleanly.Curl up on Ste J’s blog with a book, TV/movie or travel review!
Artist: Unknown at this time
BTW, you can blow below pic up, too!
Urban Hummingbird
This fabulous hummingbird is part of a massive mural in Toronto’s east end Chinatown.
How perfect to thank Cindy Knoke for her contributions to Kids’ Month.
After all, Cindy is the winner of the best and most hummingbird posts, ever!
Of Course the mural is not all about the hummingbird.
There are more aspects to this beautiful work.
Such as this flower at the opposite end, or are they leaves that look like a flower?
Mountain peaks and
… and mountain terraces to a shrine.
It was very difficult to shoot this with my IPhone.
The pic above is cropped. I had to stand quite far away to capture it in 1 piece.
Well, maybe it is all about the hummingbird, and its flower!
Pics taken by Resa – May 14, 2017
Toronto, Canada
A big “thank you” to Cindy Knoke, a fave blogger of mine. She takes fabulous photographs, and shares them with us. Her blog is visually gorgeous and educational. Click on her pic, or name to visit her blog.
The Artists: It’s in the writing on the wall (which I can’t read)
&/or?
&/or?
Redemption Wall Fairy
It wasn’t always this glamorous out here in the alley.
“Destination Mammal Cabana” was a quirky mural. I adored it & walked by it almost every day. Click on the pic to visit the post I did 4 years ago. It’s now in RIP
Then, recently one morning, I walked through the alley and saw:
It was hideous.
Graffiti Art had been obliterated by graffiti throw-ups and tags.
Using Fairy Power, I got word of the devastation out to the street artists.
Soon after, on Easter Morning, I saw this:
It was like a dream come true!
So, I put on a clear plastic garment bag and a gorgeous 10 year old Vera Wang wedding gown. I hightailed it back down to the alley,
… whereupon Tensoe painted me,
… while I took in all the new art.
It had been decided by the artists that they would do predominately Graf Writing, as a means to keep the destroyers away.
⭐ Sherrie, there’s a rat in this slideshow for you! At least I think it’s a rat. Lol, last rat turned out to be a squirrel.
After I was finished, I was named Tenesa, and had my picture taken with all the Graf Writing and pieces.
♫ ♫ I feel pretty, oh so pretty ♫ ♫
Best time I’ve had since New Years!
Not sure how this happened? There was only 1 pic like this.
Oh no, it’s time to go! Sniff!
Pics Taken by Resa, November, 2012 & April, 2017
Toronto, Canada
I would like to take a ⭐ fairy moment ⭐ here to thank Brenda Davis Harsham. Her blog, Friendly Fairytales is absolutely wonderful. It’s as though Brenda got lost in the woods, as a child, then was found and raised by fairies.
Brenda was one of the first two who said they would contribute to Kids’ Month. She wrote 3 poems. Thank you, Brenda!
I’d like to add that Brenda’s fairy knowledge of all lands magic gave me the idea for the title, and a centered concept for this post. In my heart I feel she is the “Redemption Wall Fairy”.
The Gown Artist:
Thank you, Tensoe! You are forever etched into my heart!
A Cat & Dogs
The cat seems nervous, but holds its own in a world of dogs.
Above and below blow up nicely!
I’m a cat person, and I adore dogs.
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Pics taken by Resa – April 9. 2017
Toronto, Canada
The Artist:
Greek Myths & Graffiti Murals – Collaboration with Aquileana
Could this be KHOLKIKOS, the serpent dragon? According to Aquileana from La Audacia de Aquiles, yes.
I agree, and this could be HELIOS aka APOLLO,
… with one of his 4 sun chariot horses.
Thinking I’d struck myth gold with this mural found at the University of Toronto, I sent pics to Aquileana, who had found murals about myths, as well. So was born our Greek Mythology/ Graffiti Murals Collaboration.
He really does look like the sun! His sister Artemis aka Selene looks on.
I am presenting the mural from left to right.
Next in the mural, there is a man behind a wolf.
I thought this would be the Olympic boxer Damarchus, who is also Lycanthropeis or the first werewolf.
It seems this couple is waving to us. I hope they don’t get fleeced by KHOLKIKOS. Hmm, did the ancients have high-rise cityscapes?
I’m not sure why the woman has 3 arms. Aquileana presented some insight. There is unity, divinity and the fact that 3 is both a lunar and solar number.
I see this in the artistic rendering that Aquileana did to a section of the mural. I see the woman’s third arm warming up the man’s inner soul. It’s very clever. Art begets art.
Behind the couple is MANTICORE. He is a lion’s body with a man’s head, and lion’s mane. Sounds a bit Sphynx-like as well.
Although he looks like a sweetie in this mural, don’t be fooled. Manticore was known to be deadly vicious.
I’m really excited to read Aquileana’s post. She is much more detailed. I have learned a lot about Greek Mythology from reading her blog. Otherwise, I would have thought this mural was just another pretty picture!
Pics taken by Resa – March 17 & April 9, 2017
Toronto, Canada
As I am a mural glutton, I thought I would tease you all with a sneak peak of what Aquileana found at the The Galileo Galilei planetarium, aka Planetario in Buenos Aires. All photos are © Amalia Piedmont.
Aquileana is an Uber Blogger hailing from Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
She’s smart as a whip & I always have to read her posts 2 or 3 times. This is because I want to completely absorb all she has taken so much time to share with us. Follow Aquileana on Twitter. Click on the Bird & check out her page.
NOTES ON THE MURAL
I tried very hard to find out who the artist is, and how old the mural is. I had no luck.
Three weeks later, I returned to the U of T tunnel to scour the mural for a signature or date, to no avail.
I found an image on-line taken in 2008. It was showing a bit of wear back then. I’m estimating that from the wear I see in the pic I took below that it is 15 years old, maybe more.
Although the ancient Greeks had sundials, this modern U of T model was of no help, as I have no idea how to read it.
Liberty Cat Mural
Thank you Georgiann! Your “Chicklets” and poems were a Kids’ Month highlight!
Artist: Jarus
OMG! Emmanuel Jarus is absolutely one of my top 5 street artists, and this work is his.
I read on Georgiann’s blog, Rethinking Life, that she liked snuggling up with a nice hot drink, a good book and a cat. I don’t see the book, but the sentiment remains.
This mural, in Liberty Village Toronto, is seen best from about a block away. Please… click on the pic below to see how gorgeous it is!
Some close-ups.
Thank you, Georgiann! Purrrrrrrrr! ⭐
Pics taken by Resa – March 1, 2017
Toronto, Canada
The Artist:
It is definitely Jarus. I couldn’t find a signature. It could be behind a car.
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