Recently, the art shows have been one-artist shows at my favourite coffee place but there are about 8 different artists on the walls this week. Proprietor Andrew Horne is one of them. Nice stuff.
Speaking of nice, have a look at the latest creature comforts. Lovely leather couch and armchair, acquired via Craigslist and just wrestled into place today.
Month: December 2013
New, covered rink in Greenwood Park
The ribbon cutting was just last weekend. The little snow piles are Zamboni scrapings. That’s all the snow we’ve got on the ground. It was a surprisingly warmish, pleasant day here in Toronto.
A frank word about the iPad Mini camera
In a word, it’s puny.
I laughed in understanding when I read a reviewer’s remark that the Mini camera still has a measly 5 megapixels, “disappointing the dozens of people who enjoy tablet photography”.
When the light is strong results are much better…
This is a detail of one of the pillars in the Museum TTC Station. Also represented are the arts of ancient Egypt, classical Greece, China and aboriginal North America (Turtle Island).
As the sunset shot below shows, the iPad Mini camera has trouble with bright light situations, flattening out areas of interest very destructively. It’s range is very limited… good enough for reference shots or ephemeral trivia, but no substitute for a real camera.
This sky was full of character but shapes and shadows of the clouds have been completely washed out. To see what that sky really looked like, see these.
O is for Oak
Now that the leaves are finally down, I see that one of the Normandy Boulevard oak trees has circled its branches into a nice, round “O”. Or maybe its nothing.
Bake-O-Rama: Bigger than last year?
Danica is coming home with more than she contributed, which is the general idea in these fundraisers, I think. She baked a delicious loaf of pumpkin bread with chocolate and nuts, then bought a wide array of goodies made by Beach Hill neighbours. Of course I have sampled and I’m honestly shocked at how good everything is.
A bit of drizzle did nothing to dampen the turnout. I won’t be surprised to hear that more was raised than last year. The money goes to pay for improvements along our little commercial strip… flowers around the trees, benches on the sidewalks, paint spruce-ups and supplies for volunteers who build things like the new bulletin board. People around here care and it shows.