A Variety Of Sights Around The City

 More odds and ends today. Late one day in the second half of May I was at Lansdowne Park around sundown and took these two shots- similar to how I started yesterday's post, but a different time of day.

 

A few days later, I attended a CFL football game here in the stadium, the pre-season home game. The home team lost in pretty much the last second of the game. I don't begin to understand football, but I like the crowd energy, if that makes any sense. I don't like soccer.

And another night, but the same location- the Aberdeen Pavilion, with the crescent moon in the west, and Venus visible above the building.

At the beginning of June, I had errands to run in Westboro. I got there in a timely fashion. Getting back, however, was not timely. I waited a half hour for a bus, despite the app saying the next bus was two minutes away, then ten minutes, then fifteen.... and by the time the bus got there, the driver made a point of driving the slowest I've ever seen any driver, as if he was trying to hit every stop light on an orange light. I got home around twenty minutes after my transfer time ran out, and was thoroughly disgusted with the driver.

This shot is taken from the upper deck- our city service has some double decker buses, and I happened to get one of the front seats for what ended up being an interminable ride home.

In early June, I took this shot of St. Luke's Anglican Church, in the Chinatown neighbourhood. I can't recall photographing this one before, though it's close to home for me.

A few blocks away, blossoms on a bush caught my eye.

This is Abbotsford House in the Glebe late one June night. The house is a former farmhouse of the 19th century that serves as a senior's community centre, flanked by a nursing home on one side, and a retirement home on the other side. The Moon was in full in the western sky.

A few days later there was a European cultural day in the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne. I should have taken more photos, but did take this one of colourful dancers.

More blossoms, this in a front yard in Centretown.

Heading home one evening, and passing through the Glebe, I looked at this parking garage that's been there a few years. For the first time I noticed the herons on the roof. I suspect these are the work of a local artist who works in concrete.

On a much needed rainy day in Little Italy, I took this shot.

This is home to the Czech embassy. It's often been part of Doors Open, but wasn't this year. On Doors Open weekend in early June, I passed by and took this shot.

I round out today with this shot taken a few nights back as I was passing through Centretown on my way home late in the night. Had this fellow not moved, I wouldn't have even noticed him. As it was, I spoke cheerfully to him, and he stayed in place long enough for me to take a shot.