My Solution

11 dollars and 25 cents later, a well marked hazzard and a bunch of leftover spray paint. Spray cans are NOT toys! Be careful out there!

A Few More From My Trip East

One last ''Seasonal Connifer'' pic for the year. This one from downtown Oshawa.

The Parkwood Estate Oshawa

A historical site and a trip down memory lane for me. I did some work there years ago.

Snowcastle?

Snow and expanded polystyrene packaging. This little scene that I happened upon on a baseball diamond in Oshawa reminded me of the kind of thing a hollywood effects studio might turn into a castle for a film like ''Lord Of The Rings''.

Thickson's Woods Nature Reserve Oshawa

''Tree-scape'' from another piece of Ontario wetland.

A Heck Of A Thing To Say

This trailer was parked out back of a buisness with ''War'' in the name (something like Warwick or Warenshire or something). It seemed like the kind of message that might help end a war.

Lake Ontario Shoreline

Looking east; Rotary Park, Ajax.

Harwood Ave. Ajax Ontario

Cross Country Donuts a little bit of ''Vintage Plaza''?

500 Block Yonge Street

Whether it was the shopkeeper, the police, the necklace sellers or someone else, when I returned to the scene with some orange paint the plate was already marked with two of the shiniest new cones I've ever seen.

500 Block Yonge Street

After talking to a shopkeeper about another metal plate rising from the pavement on Yonge Street I encountered these policemen. I told them about the hazard. They said they would have a look. A little further up the road a couple of guys selling necklaces asked me the time. We talked a bit about things. I told them about the plate and hoped that maybe they could stand on it and keep the situation under control.

Granby and Yonge

Kind of an absurd amount of potentially hazardous stuff going on here. That's the marker from the picture bellow in the centre of the shot. To the left some large paving stones were poking into the Yonge Street sidewalk area. I put some smaller paving stones from a nearby pile there to help make them visible. Too the right of the marker a length of one inch or so diameter copper pipe snakes over the ground at a height of six or ten inches. Again I marked that with some of the nearby paving stones. 311 assessed the whole scene as in need of emergency repair when I called. To top it off the area was icy. I came back a bit later and applied some orange paint to the whole affair.

Granby and Yonge

Put a marker next to a bit of steel sheet that was protruding from the surface of a plate used to cover a pit here.

Repair Completed!

New cover in place on Poplar Plains Rd. Missing cover reported here October 28. Thanks 311!

Duffins Marsh Ajax

Winter again! Great day for a trek at Rotary Park and Duffins Marsh.

Ajax.

Ajax Ontario. . .more to come. . .

The Guild Inn Scarborough

A place I've made a wish before. As I was taking this photo two foxes ambled by. They were too quick for the camera though.

355 Yonge

Holy new year!

New Year's Eve

Nathan Phillip's Square, Toronto, New Year's Eve. Have a Great Good New Year! ! !

Queen and Peter

The 'Hug Me Tree', a well known feature of this section of Queen West has just recently had an upgrade with the addition of a swank steel plate surround base and a nesting of birdhouses on top. I noticed that with the first light sprinkling of snow that the base is pretty slippery! And the couple of nails sticking up out of the bird house where one might grab it for support make for a really dangerous renovation. Looks pretty nice now though! I placed rocks at each of the four corners and gave it a good hug. Any guerilla surface refinnishers/nail pullers out there?

Undeground at 130 Adelaide St. West

Whoa! On the right hand side of this staircase in Toronto's downtown underground 'Path' system is a way too steep wheelchair ramp which is hardly visible as you approach it and a heck of a trip hazzard. Architecture that needs a warning sign even after construction is complete.

King West At John St.

This part of a guard rail/hoarding system at a large construction site, has sharp unfinnished ends protruding as a result of the use of the wrong fitting to terminate it's horizontal members. The bit of ethafoam wrapped around the upper connector was found nearby and serves as a 'bandaid' solution to the problem of the nasty sharp edge at hand height.

Seasonal Lighting

Festive lights on the cranes at Concord, Sheppard and Provost.

99 Avenue Rd.

What's left of some kind of box still fastened with metal fasteners to the sidewalk at 99 Avenue Rd. Had a cone in the truck so I placed it there after calling 311.

606 Yonge St.

Another deep hole from a damaged fixture in front of 606 Yonge Street.

Saturday Night

On a typical Saturday night in Toronto drunken "people" roam the streets late at night overturning newspaper boxes. Seven days a week these paperboxes are filled with questionably accurate stories about current events and the nobility and integrity of our government and justice system. Considerable intollerance and one might reasonably argue hatred is apparent in many of the editorials. Another popular theme is the publication of misleading advertising for goods and services such as housing.