[PHOTO] Lucky bamboo, $C 14.99 and up

[PHOTO] Earlscourt Park after a storm, grey and blue and green

[PHOTO] Blue vs green, Church and Maitland

[PHOTO] Twelve photos of McGill Street, Toronto

McGill Street is a short west-east street in the Garden District of downtown Toronto, its heart located just south and east of Yonge and College. I like this street, with its mixture of Victorian and modern homes embedded in greenery and surrounded by towers, in most conditions. In fall, it is beautiful.

[PHOTO] Bike leaning over fall patio, Dupont at Gladstone

[PHOTO] Blue into green, Dupont west of Dufferin

[NEWS] Five JSTOR Daily links: hobos, bird green, Ireland linen, Frank Lloyd Wright, photosynthesis

• JSTOR Daily looks at how early 20th century Americans facing underemployment and persecution under vagrancy laws organized themselves, ultimately creating the Hobo College of Chicago.
• JSTOR Daily explains how the green that we think we see in the feathers of some birds actually is not really there.
• JSTOR Daily looks at how the Napoleonic Wars helped transform the linen industry in Ireland, not least by drawing women into the workforce.
• JSTOR Daily looks at how Frank Lloyd Wright was decidedly unhappy with the mass produced Taliesin Line of homewares made in the 1950s.
• JSTOR Daily looks at the amazing potential of artificial photosynthesis, particularly as a source of fuel.

[PHOTO] A corner of green for St. Patrick’s Day at Dollarama, 730 Yonge Street

This corner of green St. Patrick’s Day merchandise at the 730 Yonge Street Dollarama is but a patch of this store’s display of themed merchandise, all in these same intense shades.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at stellar nursery NGC 604 in the Triangulum Galaxy.
• Centauri Dreams considers what the rings of Saturn indicate about the inner structure, and formation, of Saturn.
• The Crux looks at the exciting steam-based robot WINE, capable of travelling between asteroids and hopping around larger worlds like Ceres and Europa with steam.
• D-Brief looks at how the colours of the ocean will change over time, some parts becoming bluer and others greener as phytoplankton populations change.
• Gizmodo deals critically with the idea that “permatripping” on LSD is possible. At most, the drug might expose underlying issues.
• Imageo notes that, even with the polar vortex, cold snaps in North America under global warming have been becoming less cold over time.
• JSTOR Daily looks at how Cutex, in the early 1910s, created a new market for manicures.
• Language Hat mourns linguist, and fluent speaker of Sumerian, Miguel Civil.
• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how there is not a centre in American politics to be exploited by the likes of Howard Schultz, that if anything there is an unrepresented left.
• Marginal Revolution shares a commenter’s argument–misguided, I think–that a wealth tax would represent a violation of privacy rights.
• Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog notes that the InSight probe on Mars has placed the Wind and Thermal Shield above its seismometer.
• At Une heure de peine …, Denis Colombi takes issue with the use of statistics without a deeper understanding as to what they represent.
• Window on Eurasia suggests that, while a report that Belarus is investigating the possibility of autocephaly for its national church on the Ukrainian model is likely fake news, it may reflect underlying trends.
• Arnold Zwicky points readers towards the enjoyable music of Americana/folk duo Mandolin Orange.

[PHOTO] Three photos from the Wallace Avenue Bridge on a foggy evening

Last night I was walking west on the Wallace Avenue footbridge, at around 11 o’clock, when I took note of the warm glowing fog underneath. A Union-Pearson Express car passed under me between the second and third photos, and is still visible in the third.