Pond Resurrection

Recovering from winter. Today is May the 4th Be With You.

A Swirl Of Colours

It is abandon now but at one time the building was livable. It was the colours that caught my attention and made me want to photograph it.

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After seeing the outhouse I began to think the previous resident loved colours or either had a problem viewing them.

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When I opened the outhouse door the mystery about the resident's perception of colour deepened even more.

Abandoned

The who, what and when has long been forgotten.

Old Favourites Book Store

Except for residential housing, this business is truly located in the middle of nowhere. In 1954 the first Old Favourites Bookshop  location became 36 Yonge St, Toronto.  After years of operating in various locations it was decided to move out of the downtown area to save on overhead and maintain its low prices. In 1994 they move to a historic general store in the small hamlet of Green River just 32 minutes from downtown Toronto. The shop itself occupies a niche in merchandising history. One of Canada's foremost chain store magnates got his start here. He was C.L. Burton who went from his father's general store at Green River to become president of Simpson's from the 1920's to the 1950's. If you get the chance to visit the old store you'll be walking through the same front doors they did in the late 1800's.