[PHOTO] Around Rick’s Fish and Chips, St. Peters’

I mentioned earlier this month visiting Rick’s Fish and Chips in St. Peter’s with my parents. It’s a good restaurant, scenically located.

I quite liked the colourful patio.

This neat, fenced-off house behind the restaurant also caught my eye.

[PHOTO] TNG Neighbourhood Watch, Nassau east of Augusta, Kensington Market

[PHOTO] Eight Toronto photos

Today’s posting is another aggregation of Instagram photos I’ve taken in Toronto over the past week, on Bloor Street, near Yonge and Dundas, around Church and Wellesley, and finally in Kensington Market.

(Normal posting will hopefully resume tomorrow, when I actually get a working laptop.)

Planters of the future, on Bloor west of Dovercourt

Looking west on Edward Street

The rainbow flag and the flag of Canada, outside of Buddies in Bad Times

Construction tower for 66 Isabella, Church and Isabella

Front garden, 575 Church Street

Looking into Cawthra Park from Church

Pink flowers, grey wall on Nassau Street

Looking north on Augusta Avenue

[PHOTO] Streetcars crossing, Dufferin and Dundas

[PHOTO] Cawthra Park, one month after WorldPride

[PHOTO] Airport photos from Toronto and Charlottetown

Leaving Toronto on Saturday the 19th, I saw plenty of things at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Take the sight of pedestrians crossing with their luggage.

Normal, too, was seeing the 192 Airport Rocket ready to depart.

WestJet planes were lined up and visible from the terminals.

Leaving the much smaller Charlottetown airport, things were quieter. Tania Doucet‘s mural “Sailing Island Skies” is decidedly nice to see.

The WestJet plane sent to take me back to Toronto looked rather beautiful in the early dawn light.

[PHOTO] Walking Stanhope beach, Prince Edward Island National Park

This evening, I walked along the beach in the coastal community of Stanhope, inside the Prince Edward Island National Park, with my parents.

The Stanhope beach is a favourite beach of mine, a beautiful white sand beach stretching out along the shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I posted last year`s photos here this March. Below are what I think are the highlights of this year`s visit.

[PHOTO] Art around Charlottetown

I’ve been seeing art about town. I thought I’d share eight of these in today’s photo post, annotated.

The first four were photos of works in residence at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. The first is part of the permanent collection of the gallery, Jean Paul Lemieux‘s 1964 mural Confederation Revisited painted for the centennial of confederation in 1967. The next three all, I think, belong to the touring Oh Canada exhibition. General Idea‘s 1975-1976 photo mosaic Manipulating the Self, The Fence produced out of styrofoam by Quebec City art collective BGL, and Micah Lexier‘s 1993 Book Sculptures: Three Generations.

This next work is a mural painted by the senior art class of Colonel Gray High School, painted on paper and displayed on the wall of the Confederation Centre Public Library. The subject is, of course, the famous 1864 photo of the Fathers of Confederation gathered at the Charlottetown Conference.

On the southwest corner of Queen Street and Water Street, Island artist Ahmon Katz’s statue of a blue heron stands. Mumbling Jack has pictures of the sculpture taken immediately after its installation in September 2013.

For comparison is this skeleton of a distant ancient relative of the blue heron, a quick predatory dinosaur, displayed as part of Alberta’s show this week in the Celebration Zone at Confederation Landing Park.

Gerald Beaulieu‘s Bluefin Bullet, installed in 2011, is a sculpture of a tuna on the southwest corner of Queen and Richmond. (The scales are spoons.)

[PHOTO] Four photos of the Confederation Bridge, Borden-Carleton

I took quite a few photos today and saw quite a few things with my parents. These four photos are taken of the Confederation Bridge, the great fixed link between Prince Edward Island and the mainland. The first two were taken from the deserted assembly site, filled with megalithic constructions in concrete, while the second pair were taken from much closer up.

[PHOTO] Butterfly House, P.E.I. Preserve Company, New Glasgow

While visiting New Glasgow and the grounds of the P.E.I. Preserve Company with my parents Monday, we came across the Company’s Gardens of Hope and Butterfly House. The gardens are a peaceful setting for a hospice for the terminally ill and their caregivers, and the Butterfly Gardens–reopened in 2012 after a 2009 spider infestation–house butterflies of Costa Rican origin, the display of which helps finance the hospice. My mother (appearing in the fourth photo below, in iridescent green) and I paid the $C7 adult admission fee and entered.

They were beautiful. These fast-moving creatures were difficult to photograph, but I was able to take a few when they alighted somewhere, on a flower or an orange slice or a finger.