mint growing in a pool of soil
on the lawn of a side garden
at the allan gardens conservatory.
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
shen fu--landscaping tip
"when flowers and trees are planted for the first time, it does not matter if they are set at an angle. let the leaves face where they will, for after a year they and the branches will straighten up by themselves. in fact, if a tree is planted straight up it will be difficult for it to grow into a striking shape."
shen fu, six records of a floating life; english by leonard pratt and chiang su-hui.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
couplet--domesticated insect and wild fungus
mealey bugs on a yew plant in a raised planter and rusty fungus on unidentified plant, maybe a dogwood shrub. growing in a soil that dosnt look well cared for seems to be the cause of the yews infestation, from a short distance of three yard it seemed the insects were small flakes of bark peeling off, closer each insect becomes seperate from the stems. the shrub growing semi wild has rust but I had to get closer to tell it had the fungus.
Monday, June 16, 2014
lurking tchcsis employees
in 2009 or 2010 the toronto community housing corporation replaced toilets in the tchc property on the esplanade at 15 scadding avenue. during the removal of the old toilet or installation of the new one in the seventh floor apartment above my sixth floor apartment something happened which made the maintenance staff doing the work think they had damaged the water pipes and fear they caused a leak which would effect the apartment below, mine. i was not there at the time and they made an emergency entry of my living unit cut a rectangular hole approximately two by two and a half feet large in the ceiling above the toilet and examined the pipes, they seem to have found no leak.
that evening i got home and could see the hole. thinking it had something to do with the ongoing toilet replacements i went upstairs to ask the tenant in the apartment above mine if they said anything about it, he had no clear idea of what happened but said that thought they may of broken something while working in his bathroom. the next day ichecked my voicemail and there was a message from, i think, someone named h. dass, explaining what had happened and saying to call if i had any questions. they never did get around to replacing the toilet in my bathroom and they only got around to repairing the ceiling when i brought it to their attention some time later.
this incident could be used in a story where a person living in a tchc apartment comes back to his unit one day to find a hole cut in the ceiling above the toilet. he calls the landlord and is told the apartment above him was having a new toilet put in and they thought they might have damaged the pipes and so went in his apartment to check and if he had any questions to call the superintendent.
what happened was some of the maintenance staff of the tchc are csis informants gone rogue, and they were already targeting the tenant in the room for an organized crime gang they work for. they used the excuse of checking for a leak though there wasn't one to get in his apartment and illegally search it. one ran downstairs to knock on the door and went back to say no one is there and then they told the person with the keys they might of broke something so they could get in the room and one plant incriminating evidence while the other and the unknowing building maintenance cut the hole to check on the pipes which they knew they had not damaged to cover up what they were up to.
the tenant papers over the hole till they can come back to repair it. about a month later he comes home to find the paper he duct taped over the hole torn open. he wonders why no message is left telling him they had checked on the hole nor when they would be back to do the repair so he dosnt say anything. a month later he calls, without mentioning the torn paper, asks when they will be repairing the ceiling. the superintendent says he had forgotten, and would be there in a couple of days to measure the hole and set a day for the repair to be done, he dosnt mention having been in the room and tearing the paper or that any other staff had been back to check on the repairs needed.
so the tenant knows tchc maintenance were in his room the day they were replacing the toilet upstairs, but not who was in his room the day the paper was torn and what they would tear the paper for to make their entry known. later that week he hears something about csis doing illegal entry's of people's property to search for evidence they can goe to police with without saying they got it by covert entry.
Thursday, June 12, 2014
accidental garden--hortus conclusus
five ginkgo trees planted in the light well of an office-warehouse enclosed behind the plywood wall make one of torontos few hortus conclusus fully surrounded by walls.
Monday, June 9, 2014
shen fu--growing angles
"when flowers and trees are planted for the first time, it does not matter if they are set at an angle. let the leaves face where they will, for after a year they and the branches will straighten up by themselves. in fact, if a tree is planted straight up it will be difficult for it to grow into a striking shape."
shen fu, six records of a floating life; english by leonard pratt and chiang su-hui.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
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