Uninhabited Spaces

View of boats and harbour from Toronto Music Garden View of the the WestJet Stage Sailboats and Toronto Islands in the distance Nice view of Harbourfront Centre, with CN Tower in the background Looking westward on the boardwalk View of Toronto Music Park and Billy Bishop Airport from our balcony View of the Spadina Wave Deck and pier with a tall ship from our balcony View of HTO Park West from our balcony View of HTO Park from our balcony Great view looking westward from our balcony Looking down onto our condo's BBQ area, tennis court, and mini park. The runway at Billy Bishop Airport, with the Toronto Islands as a backdrop The view when you walk out our condo's front entrance View of the harbour from the pier at the foot of Spadina Avenue View of our condo tower from the harbourfront View of CN Tower from Toronto Music Garden. Our condo is at left. Sailboats racing, with Billy Bishop Airport in d...

We awoke late on the Saturday of the long weekend, and strolled over to relatively new Le Neuf Cafe , which is a little taste of Paris. We both enjoyed the Eggs Benidicto as we sat in their giant bay window overlooking Clarence Square Park. The cafe is in a 19th century townhouse that is part of Clarence Square Terrace, built in 1879-1880. The food, the service, and atmosphere evoke a slice of a true French cafe experience. Lovely. We then hit the pavement and walked all the way over to the Design District on King Street East to check out the stores and, finally, to purchase a reclaimed teak coffee table at EQ3 we have been coveting for a month or so.  While they had one in stock it was in their adjacent warehouse and we could not pick it up until 3:30 so we found ourselves with having to kill 3 hours. We decided to stroll over to nearby St. Lawrence Market . Mark got a dozen Montreal-style bagels at St. Urbain Bakery and I got a pound of Kenya AA coffee at Luba's Coffee Bou...

View of our condo tower (centre) from Roundhouse Park, just east of our complex View from Roundhouse Park of new towers going up south of Front Street Another view of our tower (centre) and Rogers Centre from Roundhouse Park Look up...waaaaaay up! Another great view of growing skyline from Roundhouse Park Welcome to Mariner Terrace! Our tower is in background. Superclub, our massive recreation complex. Another view of the front of Superclub, adjacent to our tower. Our tower, or at least most of it. Entrance to the Superclub. Approaching our tower's front entrance. Our BBQ area. View when you step outside our front entrance. Our lobby lounge.

We started our first full weekend in our new apartment by waking up late and then heading out to have a delicious breakfast bagel sandwich at nearby Spot Coffee , opposite Rogers Centre. With our tummies full, we then headed northward up to Yorkville's Toronto Reference Library in order to walk around the 10th annual Toronto Comic Arts Festival . TCAF is not a comic convention ("ComicCon") but rather a festival for comic artists and graphic novelists to display their wares, meet the public, and make some sales. While there are always tables with established presses, most displays are by independents and you get to see the whole range of publishing and work of all sizes, quality, and genre. Of course, TCAF brings in well-known authors and this year's featured guests included Art Spiegelman ( Maus) , Jeff Lemire ( Essex County ), and Seth ( Palookaville) . As we headed west along Bloor Street to window shop, we started to smell that distinctive aroma of weed as ...

It's been enormously busy lately with quite a few work events and our move last Tuesday into Harbourview Estates in CityPlace.We finished our unpacking on Sunday morning by hanging our art collection and put up our feet and enjoyed our new home with a great sigh of relief. I thought I would share photos I took of the view from our perch on the 42nd floor.