The #Petunias are popping out in East Oregon, shot yesterday. #Bloomscrolling #GardenPlantsGoneWild #RebelPlants

Love this World Cup themed post box topper, featuring that goal by Scott McTominay, at Broomhill Cross on the west of Glasgow. C'mon Scotland! #glasgow #streetart #postboxtopper #yarnbombing #scotland #tartanarmy #worldcupfinals

brass solidarity band’s singer in the midst of the crowd as they dance to “love train” at the minneapolis sculpture garden this group represents the best of this city

Looks like they’re getting traffic counts on Church Street (some on Jarvis as well) to see how many vehicles are diverted during the pedestrianization.

Huh, payphones in Australia are free (in exchange for advertising). Also this payphone game is delightful!

2/2 17th-century graffiti. As signed by Pieter Saenredam, whose day is today.

A year later, the School Streets program still blows me away

“A lot of the photos seem less like kids at play and more like kids at scavenge.” (Same difference) www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

Stay curious.

Creating temporary uses for vacant properties waiting for development is a creative way to keep those spaces active. But property tax rules could make this positive practice not viable. torontolife.com/city/this-po...

“Love Liberty” pop-up park parking lot conversion in Liberty Village (Toronto).

More surreal pole posters in Toronto #posters

Update: it’s been sorta scrubbed off, leaving a ghostly dog. Which tells that it was unsanctioned and the company used very tenacious paint to make it last a long time. So my question, what’s the penalty? If the city does nothing but remove it no lesson is learned

We're currently working with Toronto Society of Architects to possibly create a cool installation that explains the queer histories of the neighbourhood. Lots of unpaid volunteer work has already been done but it'll require money to actually print/install vinyls or plaques. (2/3)

Just imagine the two dozen cars that we could have parked here

The Copyright Infringement League! A mishmash of Marvel and DC comic book superheros on one garage door. Someone who lives there really loves comicbooks or trademark infringement, possibly both. #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #Toronto #theAnnex #AlleywayTO #MarvelComics

BlogTO has the goods. Missed this yesterday: www.blogto.com/eat_drink/20...

Streetcars and fresh bread. An old signa for a local bakery that features an old PCC streetcar. Streetcars like bread are a staple of Torontos municipal transit system. #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #Toronto #Leslieville

Chair planters set out in a street in Fener, Istanbul

Also the Fener district incorporates fun designs in its cobblestones!

Street art in the Fener district of Istanbul

Istanbul stray cat architecture

MBTA threatens to use eminent domain to pedestrianize Boston streets during World Cup - h/t Streetsblog Massachusetts

Roman graffiti! (I could only take a distance shot)

Coffee cart - and pickle cart. Street food in Kusadasi, Turkey

Mystical-themed street art, Toronto, Ontario 🇨🇦. I genuinely believe that this city has among the best street art in the world. #TagTuesday #StreetArt #streetphotography #urbanphotography #Photography #Toronto #Ontario #Canada #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #ECK

Good morning from Yonge and Lawrence. This week will be a little different in that I will be refreshing some of my Toronto walks, and they will be broken up. Today we'll look a few different tributaries in the Don River, starting with Burke Brook from Yonge to the West Don. Let's go. #metroscapes

Istanbul graffiti

The Danforth Tripper In an alleyway south of Danforth and Woodbine an ode to the venerable maroon and cream PCC streetcar that plied these streets in the days before the subway. As always this is a streetcar city. #LanewayTO #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #Toronto #Danforth #AlleywayTO

The rooftops of Istanbul are reminding me of the cover of the "Messy Cities" book

After the rain, I ventured out with my replacement phone - a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra - to try the camera out. I was quite pleased with the results. #photography #fotografie #fotografia

Midtown Manhattan.

"We have produced generations of adults who can name the Prime Minister but not their ward councillor. Who follow a federal budget with more attention than a municipal capital plan that will determine whether their water main gets replaced before it fails." Local politics matter. #WRpoli

You don't need to be an old city to have ruins! Decayed, broken walkway to abandoned cages of former Toronto zoo, now Riverdale Farm.

Trail, fairies are truly the most magical creatures in the valley. Here they have established a camp complete with chair and a firepit. And also some workout equipment. This is guerrilla urbanism, at its most raw. #RavineRambles ##LoveTheRavines #DonValley #Hike #Trail

Ghosts of skiing past. All that is left of the former don valley ski hill a single post high above the valley. #RavineRambles ##LoveTheRavines #DonValley #Hike #Trail

Vestigial lettering of defunct retailer appears from beneath removed HBC sign as another defunct retailer vanishes into history. Queen St location

If there is municipal icon of this city (sans Raccoon), its the Streetcars. Spotted these 3 gems of garage door murals all near College & Bathrust. The old CLRVs have edged themselves into our collective memory as a city. #AlleywayTO #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #UrbanGaze #Toronto #graffiti

Nearby, Monkyi with Smoky (from the Clandestinos) and Gratian mural. #Toronto #StreetArt #Graffiti

Power Lines Drawing #132 (Detroit, Carbon Works) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $250 marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

Urban Decay.. Torontos ravines have long been "places of refuse" where people had dumped their unwanted items. Walk through enough ravines, history of household technology will reveal itself. In this case in Curren Hall Ravine, vintage (60s?) oven & 80s typewriter. #LoveTheRavines #RavineRamble

With all the talk about pedestrianizing parts of downtown Toronto, it seems like a good time to resurrect an old "Historicist" column about the Yonge Street Mall of the 1970s. #TOHistory #TOpoli jamiebradburnwriting.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

My latest Paris dispatch on how 300 streets outside of schools became some of the coolest places in the city. But even more importantly, these family-centric improvements provide ubiquitous reminders that this society prioritizes children

between the haze #street #photography

The BUS Collective’s public art project, the Little Free Cinema, aims to bring experimental film to the masses. www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Construction demolition

It’s the launch party for Jane’s Walk tonight! Good Toronto. Young @jasonthorne.bsky.social says some words. Check out all the walks this wknd www.janeswalkfestivalto.com

Petition calling on the City of Toronto to halt plans to remove a native pollinator garden located at the northwest edge of Trinity Bellwoods Park, near the dog bowl. www.change.org/p/save-the-p...

In Kensington Market, an artist’s ‘demonic’ wall had to be painted over. Some say the move hurts the area’s ‘imagination’ www.thestar.com/news/gta/in-...

C’mon, life is short. It’s okay to get excited about flowers ✨