A Hit Before Your Mother Was Borndo I eat the limited edition chicken mcnugget sauce or sell the two packs. Big interest in the BTS special McDonald’s menu. Mikey bought it for me in Windsor.went to city hall Toronto to take picture of Windsor Churchill. Figure he will be next work of art to end up in Lake OntarioWindsor, Walkerville. Neighbour’s antique car collection out on the street for a washTwo head sculpture hunts for bugs. Kensington Market home’s side-yard. Mural on wall behind. Street Art. Cell phone photographDevil, Skelton. Artist Graffiti on the boarded up window of a Kensington Market building. street art. Toronto.26 years later we retired our Carrier central air conditioner. New one installed. Model? A carrier.first lunch with friends Bill and Barb in over a year. Patio on third floor of the Gardiner Museum, on Queens Park, across from ROM. Maria looks great. I look like shit, like death rushes in. waitress took picture. The Clay restowalk in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Bird part of the headstone. A puzzlerRose and Maria at our old house on Lake Clear near EganvilleHerman S sent me this picture he took of me at the King and Queen contest, 2015. All part of Caribana. Sold out show. King / Dufferin Lamport StadiumWALKING CROCK. Statue in the Gardiner Museum street side cafe across from ROM. The Gardiner is Canada’s top ceramic museum.Windsor mural on the side of of a Polish restaurant. I am seeing an homage to Tom Thomson, the Northern Lights and flowing Lava. Tecumseh Ave. Street art. Mural.an Ipad photo of my Op-Ed about dad’s death in the Windsor Star.Pierogi / Tom Thompson mural – full view. Windsor, Ontario. Street Art.My father’s home for sale. Prescott. 300 feet from the St Lawrence River and the wreck of the Rothesay. Diver’s paradise. Check out the pool.My father’s home for sale. Prescott. 300 feet from the St Lawrence River and the wreck of the Rothesay. Diver’s paradise. Check out the pool. 22 Sunnymeade Rd. / Highway 2 Just outside of town.but will the food concept work. Suddenly the Green Papaya on Yonge St In Toronto has moved from just Thai food, to Vietnam and Brazilian Cuisine. Patio right on the street, doing well in the warm nights of JulyRenfrew hippy days. 1969. Car wouldn’t make it to Woodstock. Me at left, Robin Burgess on guitar and the late Bruce Paton with the flower. Rob Agnell on the rough. Raglan Street. Renfrew, Ontario.the wreck of the Rothesay. The sidewheel paddler sank at the end of my dad’s street in Prescott. Most popular shore dive site on the St Lawrence (and you can suit up in our garage and walk 300 feet to the water’s edge.my first picture that I took for the Lakefield Leader. 1975. First day on the job as editormy first picture that I took for the Lakefield Leader. 1975. First day on the job as editor
Downtown on Ouellette St. Picture taken with cell. Spring 20Deep in the bowels of Toronto City Hall parking lot. Long neglected sticker car! Cell phone 2019Get you haircut by a shark! Ouellette Street barber shop. cell photo. Spring 2020Jeff the mural guy – daily tour in downtown Bogota, ColombiaDowntown Windsor Canada. Radio station mural, Ouellette Street. Cell phone picture spring 2020Face and back of Jeff’s head – Bogota muralback alley tour by Jeff in Bogota Colombiafishing village in Iceland. Mural on side of fish processing plantOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAicelandic street art6 years on as a Yonge Street alley north of Lawrence. TorontoMurder Mural – Port Hope Ontario. Downtown back alley mural was painted for the filming of the Stephen King movie IF 2. (or maybe IF). Pix taken fall 2020Fake backdoor to fake butcher store in downtown Port Hope, Ontario. Used in film of IF (or maybe IF 2)Harsh Canadian weather is hard on murals. 3-years in, this Toronto back alley art is on its way outO stickers are from the art gallery in down New Orleans – picture by M Nenadovichcell photo near lawrence and bathurst – covus related. But like the late Hoyt Axton sang, “My Griffin is gone” – only up for a week or so in early 2020
lakefield leader photograph by sweirBack when it was ok to paint your house pink. Andy’s house next to us. 1992. 111 Ontario Street (we were at 109) downtown Toronto
Picture for the Lakefield Leader. 1978 and 13 year old Bill Speed (Toronto hockey player) sells Maple Leaf coach a power play lottery ticket to raise money for the Ontario Hockey AssociationMaple Leaf Coach Roger Neilson visits the Lakefield Lions Club to talk about hockey. Neilson is a Peterborough Country resident. Wasn’t allowed to use my flash – q’uelle domageMy Back Pages (cleaning out my files during the Pandemic). 45 years ago Joe Clark came to Peterborough to promote his leadership of the Conservative party to the local media. His wife Maureen McTeer was with him, but would not let me photograph her because she had just broken her arm and didn’t want to be pictured with a cast. As I remember she broke her arm in a wild Ferris Wheel ride at local fair. At the time I was the the editor/photographer for the Lakefield LeaderJoe Clark at the podium. 1974ish presser in PeterboroughOne of a kind sweir business cardMy Back Pages (cleaning out my attic files during the Pandemic). The day Dief the Chief came to town. Lakefield, Ontario. 45ish years ago. Believe it was a guest appearance by the former Prime Minister at the Lion’s Club luncheon. I remember I was fine $1 for not wearing a tie and swearing. Don’t know who he is talking to. I was the editor/photographer at the Lakefield Leader at the time.
My Back Pages (cleaning out my attic files during the Pandemic). The day Dief the Chief came to town. Lakefield, Ontario. 45ish years ago. Believe it was a guest appearance by the former Prime Minister at the Lion’s Club luncheon. I remember I was fine $1 for not wearing a tie and swearing. Don’t know who he is talking to. I was the editor/photographer at the Lakefield Leader at the time.Bonaire.The early 80sstore typewriter 40 years later – picture by George Socka
in 1994ish had a contract to help with promo of the antiflea drug thanks to Mary ManakDive in Hamilton Harbour 1994 with Environment Minist