Spring in my Neighbourhood

It's my first anniversary buying my condo in Toronto and Mount Pleasant Road is my main street. For those outside of Toronto, it starts just south of Bloor St. as a branch off Jarvis St. and ends at Glen Echo Road before Hoggs Hollow. 

 I generally say I live in Midtown Toronto, depending who you talk to, I am in the north end of Mount Pleasant West and a few blocks south of Sherwood Park. I chose this neighbourhood because everything I need if the weather really turns to shit, is at most, a six block walk away. My local, the Granite Brewery is a couple blocks walk south of me, and I'm spoiled for choice in terms of coffee shops.  Many ways the opposite of Oakville where I had to get in car to do everything. 

What about parks? I'm a short stroll from the Sherwood Park Ravine, which onee you are in the valley, go east, you wind up in the Sunnybrook Ravine and by extension the Don River watershed, walk northwest, you walk into the Blythwood Ravine which will take you eventually to Yonge St, and Alexander Muir Gardens. 


Camera: Nikon F2 Photomic, Nikkor S.C 50 F1.4 lens. 

Film: Fomapan 400, Ilfotec HC 1+31. 



Northern Secondary Traffic March 2025 Curved Apartment Building on Roehampton March 2025 The Ambassador on Roehampton March 2025 Baltic Lutheran Church at Roehampton Balconies at Eglinton and Mount Pleasant Two Eglinton Buses at Mount Pleasant_ Candy's on Mount Pleasant_ Season on Mount Pleasant_ Mable's Fables Guard Robot Marc 2025 Manor Road Convenience Store Toronto Public Library Mount Pleasant Branch Still Not a Condo or the Regent The Regent March 2025 Belsize House March 2025 Circle K at Erskine March 2025 Keewatin Brownstone Apartments March 2025 Toronto House on Sherwood March 2025 Sherwood Ravine Park Entrance March 2025 Trail Down the Sherwood Ravine Park Burke Brook Above Ground Sherwood Ravine Park Picnic Tables Sherwood Ravine Park Bathrooms Two Afternoon Dog Walker in Sherwood Ravine Park Dog Walking in Sherwood Ravine Park Mount Pleasant at Blythwood Mount Pleasant Toronto Houses Summerhill Market Event Venue

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