[PHOTO] Crossing Bloor from Honest Ed's

Since my upgrade to a proper smartphone earlier last month, I've joined Instagram. I find myself really enjoying the experience. Instagram feels like more of a community than the more professional Flickr, I think. The app's editing features are decent--I'm still not sure what I think of filters, so I use them sparingly--and the site lends itself well to conversations. Facebook was right to buy it.

[PHOTO] Alexander Wood on Church, 2012 and 2014

The photo below of the statue of Alexander Wood is one of several orphans pictures of mine taken during Pride.



In October 2012 I took night-times photo of the statue. Below is one of the photos, and what I wrote at the time.

On the night of Nuit Blanche, I went to the northwestern corner of Church and Alexander--just two blocks south of the fabled intersection of Church and Wellesley--to take photos of sculptor Del Newbigging's statue of Scottish-born merchant Alexander Wood, unveiled in 2005. Located next to the compass painted on the sidewalk at the same corner, Newbigging's statue of Wood has become something of a community landmark, quite literally a touchstone--apparently some locals rub the statue for good luck before dates.