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Girl in a black headscarf.' In the 1870s, Wilhelm Leibl moved to the Bavarian countryside to paint villagers as he saw them, work that was greatly admired by Gustave Courbet. 'I paint human beings as they are, so the soul is there.'

Queen St. West, Study No. 2 - 1980 Artist: Arto Yuzbasiyan (1948- ) Medium: Oil painting Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library #1980s #oilpainting #queenwest #winter #city #streetcar #torontoart #streetscene #art #toronto #canada

a woodblock!

beautifully captured snow shadows

Toronto's favourite drag queen.....my mother would have loved this lol

my kind of nostalgic Christmas carol...what's yours?

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Also 3D printers and the use of recording studios, all for free! Yowsah!!

An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.

Here are some more very good ideas from Star readers to make Toronto better Star city columnist @thekeenanwire.bsky.social continues his search for One Great Idea to improve Toronto

A beauty!

Kristen Chenowith. Very worthy of my idolatry. Such a talent!♥️

sweeet memoriy!!!

needs some copper in its diet.

The clouds!

From the shoreline of Gananoque, Ontario on a recent trip. Beautiful day!

Tina Weymouth - Oliverio Toscani, 1985

I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange. Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems

She loves walking among her trees and musing. Virginia Woolf

On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between those interiors in the same way one occupies those interiors. One lives in the whole world rather than in interiors built up against it. Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Just as there are several solitudes, so there are several silences. Frédéric Gros, A Philosophy of Walking

Future archaeologists and alien visitors are going to be so confused...

What a novel idea!

This is a small snow plow for sidewalks If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. T. S. Eliot

Lest we forget…but here we are. #canada #usa #rememberanceday #veteransday youtube.com/watch?v=76YG...

Seven weeks ago, it was 30c and I was swimming in an outdoor pool. We get it all

"We have a need for an enlightened, watchful articulate opposition. We have no need for semi-secret societies who are absolutist, dictatorial and would substitute for a rule of law and reason an indiscriminate assault on the institutions that must be held sacrosanct." ~Rod Serling

All this anticipation of snow in the next few days, brought this large, gorgeous painting of Pieter Bruegel The Elder, to mind.

every year I contemplate trying to make some snow globes. These two artists' work is superbly, mildly, disturbing!

First snow's coming n a few days. I'm a kid again when this happens.

Roof top ice rink,Toronto.

I always enjoy hearing this man's views on America's political scene.

Another point of view♥️

Yes ♥️

This..

Autumn in Edmonton

Monday.

Awww damn😢

ho hum all in a days work....another one bites the dust!

One more. Friday.

Maligne Lake Road, Jasper

Toronto: not an igloo in sight Population (GTA): 6.4M, 4th largest city in N.A. Ranked one of the safest cities in N.A. even though it is considered the most multi-cultural city in the world where 160 different languages are spoken. Tolerance is our superpower. Let’s Go #BlueJays #Canada

GOODNIGHT, SEATTLE!

Decibels!!!!!