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

   (2005.09.29)

Toronto’s much-photographed Distillery District has a giant overhead member with the following signs on its north and south faces, respectively:

Signs read ‘Gooderham & Worts,’ one rusted and decayed, the other pristine

Also, they put in a clock:

Men steady a tall black four-sided clock as a crane lowers it into position on a cobblestone street

Sadly, it’s directly ahead of the end of the sidewalk, meaning a blind person who keeps walking in a straight line will bump right into it.

Plus of course the cranes that hang around the Distillery like juvenile delinquents at a variety store are inexplicably labeled with newspaper agate type that I can’t be arsed to look up. Why not just use Futura Maxi?

Blue crane is emblazoned UpRight SB80 BOOM LIFT, in part, in sansserif type with high x-height and thick circular strokes
Embossed logo on crane reads UpRight in sansserif font
   (2005.09.22)

This is the best shot I could manage of the improbable conjunction of a 1976-era Austin Mini and a Smart Fourtwo. The latter is one-third taller than the former.

Green Ausin Mini parked in front of white Smart at night (with other car backing in between them)

I already thought the Smart ran on toy tires with toy wheels, but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet till you’ve witnessed the shopping-cart wheels the Mini used.

   (2005.08.27)
Ontario Court of Justice building has giant concrete awning over entrance and a façade of white concrete dotted with short rectangular windows
   (2005.08.27)
Under a metal truss canopy, two rows of nested shopping carts face toward us
   (2005.08.18)
Old blue king-cab pickup truck has elaborate cap and white fender skirts
   (2005.08.18)

Scarecrows or firemens?

Chain-link fence is draped with firefighter turnout coats, one of them spread-armed against the mesh
   (2005.08.18)

The tens of thousands of raccoons in Toronto have a near-perfect habitat, with no predators save for cars and the occasional fox and two unlimited food supplies – wildlife and fish in the ravine and the Don River and an entire city’s garbage.

They’re so tame you can walk right up to them and take a sequence of flash photographs until you get the one you like.

Grey raccoon stands near garbage bags and looks at us with green reflected eyes
   (2005.08.13)

Or, more accurately, de la neige en août.

Window and edge of roof of bus shelter are almost totally obscured by dappled snow
Yellow Smart Fourtwo has windscreen, hood, and headlights obscured by snow
Snow-covered doorway and steps shows blue siding and ‘85’ in metal letters on brick wall
   (2005.08.12)

Clearly the backside of a snowplow blade (found in 34° summer weather) is a great location for half a vintage logotype.

Yellow metal plane has rust spots and a large attached spring. Half a blue sign shows the word FISHER on a yellow blot

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