Photo of the week: Reflections

We bring you a recently snapped picture as today's post. We're gearing up for a summer coverage at QQL as things will heat up in the neighbourhood so stay tuned.

Photo: Oysters on Queens Quay

A photo from yesterday's 1000 Tastes of Toronto, Rodney Oyster's crew doing their hard work. Wow, they are fast! Today, the food is being served again starting at noon. Read our latest post for our mini reviews.

Photos: Cirque de Soleil at the Music Garden for Luminato

We got up and close to Friday night's performance at the Music Garden by the Cirque performers, the Ban tribe (or Urban). They opened up the set and did about 40 minutes of performing. We're sure they're saving their energy for the next two days.

From what we say, it was highly entertaining the crowd was pretty massive. Make sure you catch it. Here are some pictures we took.

Photo: Signage shadows

Here at Queens Quay Life, gonna take a few days off from blogging, but we've got lots of ideas. Actually, maybe we'll have one up on holiday Monday, but for now, here's a photo of the HTO sign or rather its shadow.



Happy Victoria Day

Photo: Destined for demolition

Meet the future site of Sherbourne Park, on Queens Quay East. We were walking by the site that will be demolished soon to make way for public space as part of the East Bayfront project, and thought we'd snap some pictures. The building is partly made up of old rail cars. Not quite history, we guess, but worth getting a last picture of.

Wind storm hits Toronto, goodbye sunny day on Queens Quay

Okay, since we showed you nice pictures of HTO Park a few hours ago on this glorious (er, windy) Saturday afternoon, here are some pictures we took as that massive wind storm blew past Toronto downtown. We were a little worried for some sailboats we saw drifting out there but the trusty fire rescue boats were out there.

From Environment Canada

AT 4:50 PM EDT RADAR SHOWS A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN END OF LAKE ONTARIO. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REACH TORONTO BY 5;30 PM. WIND GUSTS TO 100 KM/H LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED

Photo: Happy spring Queens Quay

Yes, we were going to spend a few hours this fine afternoon blogging for QQLife but hey, neighbourhood blogging can be a drag on beautiful days. So today's entry, images from HTO Park this afternoon. Yes, there are those of you who are already out there in your summer swimwear tanning.

Get outside, enjoy our neighbourhood, folks.

Photo of the week: Deck in progress

Okay, yes we're showing you another picture of the Simcoe Wavedeck on Queens Quay but we thought this view was kinda nice. Enjoy.

Spring cleaning at Harbourfront Centre

One of our readers asked about the tearing down of the Toronto Star stage. We took a picture of this scene this fine Friday. Yes, the park area has been torn down. What's coming up?

Photo of the week: At the foot of Yonge

Of course, it's Captain John's. That, er, restaurant at the foot on Yonge Street, on a winter's day.

Photo of the week: View from Toronto Island Airport (or the ferry leading to it)

Happy March Break to our readers. We're taking it a little slower these days but will ramp things up as we've got lots in the story hopper. On a sunny Sunday, we present a picture of the harbourfront community from the ferry to the Island Airport where Porter Airlines are based.

Photo of the week: Billboard city

Photo looking north from the parking lot of a future condo development on Queens Quay just east of Yonge Street. This is directly west of the Redpath building

Photo the week: Reclaiming land

Construction continues on the WaveDeck (see the Spadina WaveDeck to get an idea of what this will look like. This was taken a few weeks ago at Queens Quay near Simcoe, across from the Rabba's.

Photo of the week: Dark and light

View of the lake off Queens Quay

Photo of the week: Really old stuff

Seen at the Harbour Front Antiques

Snowflakes in HTO park

You'll have to see it for yourself at the Daily Dose of Imagery, one of the best photo blogs out there, based in our very own city.

More recent harbourfront shots here, here, here and here

Photo of the week: Ladder down

Seen at the base of 370 Queens Quay, a few days after a big wind storm, a ladder down..