Found these in a consignment store, heap of rocks, various prices - a good quality, large beryl crystal perhaps a centimeter in diameter and 4 centimeters long, and a pyrite crystal. Exciting - not in and of themselves, but because clearly they're local specimens...
Pyrite crystal on left, Beryl visible in matrix centre right specimen.
Beryl on right - follow the line of the beryl crystal from close to centre right up the specimen. The photo is bad, but it's fairly long and glassy - yellowish, with lots of inclusions.
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The Kokanee salmon are spawning, took the boy to see:
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A short - overdue trip to the big city, visiting some friends. I'd promised, and at the worst of all times (work, Jeep, Bills) had to make good on it. Bus to Calgary, flight to Toronto, very few short days, but enough, enough to see friends, the local sights, attractions, find abundant inspiration which as of late has been sadly elusive...
(The CN Tower, a proper landmark as from almost anywhere in Toronto you only have to walk a block to see it)
(great diner sign)
(yep.)
(Every town has one. Nelson has more than a few...)
(CN Tower)
Phenomenal used bookstores...
Everywhere great old buildings and architecture. Friends, they have a 5 room suite, in the ghetto, $1400 per month, but - with the speed and ease of public transportation it's easily escaped. And the ghetto here is far, far more interesting than the mediocre suburbs of Calgary.
I wanted to buy the sign...not sure how it'd go over here...
The Olympus. I had the Morning Glory burger, plenty big enough. Check out the Olympus - I wanted to order it just for the photo, but there was no chance in hell I'd be able to eat all that. Food, generally, in Toronto is a heck of a lot cheaper than out west...
Rated #3 for fine dining in TO, but, no, no it isn't. The other extreme, haute french cuisine, well done, but expensive and boring...
I was pretty excited when I passed this, but popping inside the building found nothing...
Passed this on one of my many, many walks (25 KM/Day average) - unfortunately it wasn't open on my timeframe.
Link: https://www.skullstore.ca/ & http://prehistoria.ca/
Casa Loma, won't bore you with the hundreds of pictures I took here...well, maybe just one:
(A well integrated fusion of a modern high rise with an old church)
Everywhere the independently owned "variety" stores, for cigarettes, lotteries, etc. As you can't display cigarettes in Canada for fear of harming the psychology of young children the store owner here has thoughtfully displayed dozens of packages of herbal viagra...
Old pay phones that somehow display like modern art pieces installed on street corners...
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