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Photos in the genre of Grant Hutchinson’s Splorp.com

   (2006.07.31)
A nearby wading-pool floor, with painted blue-and-green whales, looms across the picture while a red firetruck sits parked alongside a building in the distance
   (2006.07.17)

She’s got rings on her fingers, bells on her toes, bells across the backlight of her Smart.

(Solarization applied.)

   (2006.07.16)
Flap opens out of side of CTV van to reveal a switchboard from which a single blue cable trails
   (2006.07.13)

I wonder if there is anyone left who is still unwilling to call a dumpster a dumpster (with or without audible initial capital or trailing registered-trademark sign).

Dumpster on lawn outside of house reads NEON in green letters on the yellow upper half and yellow letters on the green lower half

(Q.v.)

   (2006.06.30)
Grey clouds show through metal-framed tarpaulin roof
   (2006.06.22)

This excitingly hazy samizdat-style THRILL-CAM shot does not quite do justice to what’s happening.

White Suburban with red and blue stripes sits alongside a few people on a distant beach

This Toronto police Suburban (not marked ETF, merely 55 Division) was seen driving around the actual beach at low speeds, making stations-of-the-cross stops at all the lifeguard towers.

But I saw no obvious cops, even any obvious undercover or plainclothes cops. The Suburban was full of guys in board shorts and no shirts, sometimes driving with a door open. What were they doing?

UPDATE (2006.09.04): A sergeant told me that Beach lifeguards are actually civilian employees of the Toronto police, and that any such Suburbans must be from the Marine Unit and are driven by lifeguard supervisors.

   (2006.06.21)

The old guard must make way for the new, &c, &c.

New park bench with bright paint job sits on concrete pad. Old dilapidated bench, wrapped in yellow CAUTION tape, sits on grass behind it
   (2006.06.20)

I was not aware that Spanish was intrinsically blue.

Logos on riveted steel panels read AIR RIDE EQUIPPED in a wavy red arrow, SUSPENSION À L’AIR in a yellow one, and SUSPENSION NEUMÁTICA in a blue one

French as intrinsically yellow I can get behind, though.

   (2006.06.19)

I suppose this is unremarkable on beaches in general. It is nonetheless a rather alien sighting one city block away from a major thoroughfare.

On a sandy beach between a boardwalk and the water, a red tractor pulls yellow trailer whose front face consists of steel cylinders

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