[PHOTO] Blue tree, rainbow crosswalk, Church and Maitland

[PHOTO] Looking north up Church under a pale blue sky, Sunday afternoon

[PHOTO] Nine photos from Halloween in Church and Wellesley

[PHOTO] Garden in bright light, Paul Kane House Parkette

[PHOTO] Storm Crow Manor, after the tentacle eruption

[PHOTO] South face, northwest corner of Church and Wellesley

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

• blogTO shares photos from Yorkdale Mall during its power outage Saturday.
• blogTO reports that Toronto hosts, by one measurement, one of the biggest housing bubbles in the world.
• The story of how a neighbourhood project painted over the Ossington Laneway, vandalizing the graffiti there, is a sad one. blogTO has it.
• Judging by his filmed confession, the only chance Alek Minassian has to avoid a very lengthy prison sentence is a perhaps-unlikely insanity plea. CBC reports.
• NOW Toronto reports on the climate strike protests held Friday in Toronto.
• The Toronto Star reports on the mass protests held on Sunday to keep homophobic Christians from marching into Church and Wellesley.
• Steve Munro reports on the statistical sleight of hand apparently used to make the TTC Bombardier streetcars of the TTC look better.