Bessarion and Sheppard

Bent the one nail I saw here to a safer position. More wood than I felt right picking up given large volume of high speed traffic and the fact that I was carrying food.

Dundas and Victoria if I Recall Correctly

WooHoo! Even if you're not a hockey fan a little civic pride might be a good thing for everyone!

St. Clair and Avenue Rd.

Someone did an artistic and skillful job of the new curb here. I wondered though if this kind of avant-garde design might pose a danger to a cyclist or a snow plow or street sweeper and hinder drainage.

25 St. Clair Ave. East

One more for the holy city series reported to 311 the city's very helpful 24 hour access number.

63 St. Clair Ave. West

Pizza slice sized damage to access cover.

63 St. Clair Ave. West

This is the second access cover of this type I've seen broken near this location in a couple of months. This one seemed to fracture along the grid lines to some degree. I had an idea that the existing stock of these might be made considerably stronger if a disk of fiber mesh material were applied to the upper surface and then saturated with epoxy resin and non skid grit for a finish. That would fill in the grid lines in effect making the whole structure thicker and I'm guessing quite a bit stronger. Something that might be easily done a little at a time by a small crew with a truck carrying a kit designed for the purpose. Even if the covers did fracture the mesh might hold them together well enough to prevent this kind of hazard from occurring. I suggest using good ventilation and all environmental precautions when working with epoxy folks.

Dundas Square

A bear that's getting regular hugs from photo subjects.

Sidewalk Display of Secondhand Books

Late night browsing downtown.

Window Display on Bloor near Bay

Powerful design minds at work, I'm shocked!

Albert Street

Called 311

Concord

The Concord development at Sheppard near Leslie. I'd been dreaming part of this new space could become a home for a Naturopathic Center giving visitors to the nearby Naturopathic College and Clinic a place to stay a few days for more intensive treatment.

Bay and Bloor

Nice display of conemanship!

Concord

Another view through the fence at the Concord development at Sheppard.

Avenue Road and St. Clair

Plate bent up on the corner of The Avenue Road Arts School. Actually kind of a pointy edge so close to Brown Public School but not sharp sharp just pointy.

Fall Colours in David Balfour Park

More from David Balfour

David Balfour Again

6:49pm

It was remarkable and disturbing to me that less than an hour later I saw another fridge or freezer with the door swung partly open in a truck outside of the Home Depot at Laird and Eglington. I did a search for specific safety concerns around fridges with the modern magnetic sealing strips but can find no information relating to the possibility of a child or otherwise being unable to open such a door. In theory I suppose they would be no more difficult to open than the fridge would be from the outside but I'm left wondering if the doors on horizontal units with the door on top pose a hazard. I also wonder if very small children might not be up to the task of opening even the standard fridges.

6:00pm

I removed the folding portion of the hasp as well as the seal from the ice chest.

5:54pm

I removed the seal from the middle one and put it inside the fridge.

5:52pm

I found these three fridges outside the snack bar at Sunnybrook park in here in Toronto. The one on the right was full of water and had no seal. The one in the middle had a seal but the fibreglass insulation left in it prevented the door from shutting. Both it and the one on the left were to my mind potential killers. The ice chest on the left had an intact seal and an improvised hardware store hasp set that could not be opened from the inside contrary to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's Refrigerator Act of 1956 which can be downloaded in pdf. format and found at: http://www.cpsc.gov/businfo/rsa.html and is outlined at http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/5072.html

Lost

Lost track of where this one was...anybody know?

Yonge St. West Side South of Bloor

Bit of a trip hazard next to a busy street.

College and Augusta

This little guy reminded me why I pick up trip hazards and call all these holes and things in to 311 the city's 24 hour access line. They've been a great help.

Leaf

First leaves begin to fall.