Monday Mural

   I'm linking up at Monday Mural 

August 2025 - Toronto ON

We came across a lot of new murals last week in our meanderings around town.

I found these on my wanderings along Yonge St. midtown last week. 

Click here for another Dave's, also on Yonge, but downtown. 

We tried Dave's hot chicken in 2023.

I posted this before, in 2023, photo taken in 2022, but with no context.

Meet Me at the Red Canoe Artist Marg Cresswell. An iconic cottage country scene.

A few murals we found along Danforth last week, in the rain. There were others we wanted but we were just too wet at that point.

Beside the new Donlands subway entrance. It is on the back of the building below.

Little Dribblers is North America’s FIRST and ONLY Children’s Basketball Facility and Program for mini-players ages 1 – 10 years old… with an educational spin!

Danforth is the heart of Greektown.

I love the real truck in this mural! I had been to a Kitchen Stuff Plus earlier that week at Yonge and Eglington, I had forgotten about this one!!

The Kawartha Dairy mural is a large, hand-painted artwork created by artist Sacha (Sacha Taylor) that features a timeless lakeside view with rustic elements like Muskoka chairs and canoes, aiming to bring the feeling of Ontario's cottage country to city locations, such as their 888 Danforth Avenue store. The mural integrates the company's logo with visuals that evoke their Canadian heritage and the natural landscape of the Kawarthas, connecting customers to the brand's history and community roots.

Snapped from the streetcar at Broadview.

And then I found this new one on Spadina on Friday!

On February 25, 1964 Cassius Clay, knocked out Sonny Liston for his first world title in boxing.

A photographer, Neil Leifer took what became an iconic photo at the Ali/Liston (1964) fight.

You can buy a print, if you can afford it!!

Artist, The Half Decent, painted a massive mural of the photo in a narrow alley at Spadina south of Queen W.

MURAL UPDATE

Previously there was a Emily May Rose mural on this wall. May 2021.

Oakham Cafe

 Linking up with Marg at The Intrepid Reader

Weekend Coffee Share

Sunday Salon

Sunday Post

June 2023 - Toronto ON

MAY 2023 - TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

The weekend passed in its usual leisurely style. Two of my Wagjag purchases arrived, a purse and mattress cover, which I ordered in the wrong size!

My peony is holding in.

Monday Mural was taken at lunch last week.

John headed out early to play golf. Early as in we were up at 6:30! I had several ideas in mind but then realized that we needed hot buns for dinner. So I killed a couple of birds with one stone and went to College Park where I picked up shirts for each of us, and some household stuff, and then went to Farm Boy for the buns.

Filming at Union Station.

College Park's atrium serves as a wonderful display area for Haida artist Robert Davidson‘s The Three Watchmen.

The smoke from the wildfires is causing air quality issues here in Toronto. 

Monday's sunset

T for Tuesday. Signs and Tuesday Treasures I found on my recent rambles.

On Yonge St.

Bloor St. West

We headed out at 11:20 and then subwayed to Dundas St. for lunch. We wanted to try Dave's Hot Chicken.

 

Service was slow and they were busy. I'm guessing they are suffering from the lack of employees as most places are.

It was good and spicy! We don't need to try any more Nashville chicken places.

Then we went to the Eaton Centre to Uniqlo, I wanted a short, light jacket. John bought a vest for golf.

I want this guy's t-shirt! 

 Then we went to Winners at Dundas Square where John got some summer shirts and shorts.

I returned the grey one on Friday, as it was too small.

Wednesday John woke with a sore neck and decided not to golf. The air quality was extremely bad from the fires so we both stayed in.

The air quality was even worse on Thursday so another day at home. Luckily we have a convenience store in our building so I was able to get potatoes, onions and bananas!

Friday John bottled his wine and met a friend for lunch at The Firehouse. I did some groceries for the weekend.

COOKING

Saturday ribs baked potato and beans

Sunday hot chicken sandwiches 

Monday hot dogs and poutine

Tuesday pulled pork sandwiches (made from leftover ribs)

Wednesday salmon, roasted broccolini and tomatoes

Thursday curry chicken using the spice package our bus driver gave me.

Friday steak (10 oz from The Butcher Shop, delicious) asparagus and baked potato.

 

WATCHING

Red Rose BBC 2021 A group of teenage friends is infiltrated by the Red Rose app, which flourishes on their smartphones and threatens them with dangerous consequences if they don't comply with its demands.

The Man from Toronto we didn't bother finishing.

Red Rock is an Irish serial crime drama series, set in the fictional seaside town of Red Rock, focusing on the activities of the detectives of the local Garda Síochána station and townsfolk.

READING

The Latecomer is compelling and engaging, although the characters could be more likable. Just because you are related doesn't necessarily mean you have to like each other.

I didn't want this book to end!!

I started It Ends With Us, it is just an okay read for me, not quite to my taste, a little trite. I'm not sure I will read the second in the series. Upon further reflection, I do NOT like this book and will not finish it. The handling of domestic abuse and gay characterization was just wrong.

I read The Henna Artist in an afternoon! Then I discovered it is book one in a trilogy!

I read My Father's House and also discovered that it is book 1/3! I knew of an Irish priest who had helped Jews, refugees and Allied prisoners during WW2. But this book wants me to learn a lot more about him and the courageous people that worked alongside him. I loved this fictional piece about the Rome Escape Line.
The writing is beautiful and Joseph O'Connor has done a superb job of transporting the reader to Nazi-occupied Rome.

Terrible Virtue tells the story of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood—an indomitable woman who, more than any other, and at great personal cost, shaped the sexual landscape we inhabit today.