[PHOTO] Alley south off Wallace Avenue, Junction Triangle

I walked home last night from the west, passing from Dundas West station and up over the rails over the Wallace pedestrian bridge and down onto Wallace Street on the far side. The soft rain, in the light of evening, lent itself to beauty.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the discovery of rings around Kuiper belt dwarf planet Haumea, as does the Planetary Society Blog's Jason Davis.


• The Big Picture, from the Boston Globe, shares photos of the devastation of Puerto Rico by Maria.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the strong support of many--most?--on the American right for apartheid.


• The LRB Blog shares an article by Mike Davis looking at the vulnerability of California, especially Napa, to wildfires.


• The Map Room Blog links to a beautiful detailed map of the French railway network.


• The NYR Daily reports from Catalonia on the edge of a meltdown.


• North's Justin Petrone writes about going hunting for mushroooms in Estonia.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares five especially noteworthy photos provided by NASA. (What, no Pale Blue Dot?)


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russians in Tatarstan, unlike other groups, are unique in not wanting to learn Tatar.

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto architecture notes: Forest Hill, pastiches, Beaches, Lawren Harris

• These Forest Hill homeowners' claim that renovating neighbours stole their intellectual property seem silly to me. The Toronto Star reports.


• Shawn Micallef notes that the traditional architecture style of Toronto is of one pastiche or another. Maybe modernism especially?


• Toronto Life shares photos of a beautiful waterfront home in the Beaches, one I have passed by frequently. Only $6 million!


• Ellen Scheinberg of Spacing tells how detective work tracked down the house that was subject of Lawren Harris' "Toronto House".