interplantings

not one plant, two. golden rod growing near the centre of a burdock.

 

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accidental swastika

stainless steel wallpaper inside of an elevator at fifteen scadding ave, one of toronto community housings properties embossed with a relief texture made of a motif popularly termed swastika.

unobtrusive enough to be almost invisible during a short elevator ride. each square of the pattern repeats an L shape arm four times at a slight tilt clockwise, suggesting, not copying, the diagonal swastika of the german nationalist party.

 

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wallgarden--tulips--moss stained--transparency

lichen stained stones of building viewed through the screen made of a low guard-iron fence and the last of that springs tulips.

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iris and onions

iris leaning in to the white petaled ornamental onions in the raised garden beds at fifteen scadding ave.

 

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double wall garden

building wall and yard wall with a garden of stones and weeds at the lower south end of sherborne street.

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modern vermiculation

found this thing while browsing google images for norman shaws architecture. i thought it showed a set of studies in vermiculation for wall surfaces. a visit to the blog of the designers showed it to be the module for a garden seat inspired by the garden slug, which is vermin. can't not think it would make a better wall surface for a garden terrace.

 

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catnip and roses

catnip, maybe persian, and a rugosa rose for the first week of june.

 

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shadow of caliphate

the shadow of islam on a toronto garden wall.

what seems to be the shadow of a mosque and minaret is the shadow of a crenelated roof line on the trinity church to the west of the eaton centre.

a sign of something but what.

 

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