In our everyday urban life we see a lot of plants around us. We have experiences we different types of plants, namely Herbs, Shrubs, Climbers, Trees, and creepers.
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There are many benefits when planting native plants. They are low in cost and maintenance and help sustain local ecosystems.
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Since ecosystems depend on environmental conditions such as moisture and light, the species below represents a plant community.
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The City is creating a cleaner, greener and quieter future.
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Through initiatives that support green infrastructure, pollinator habitat creation and protection of local biodiversity, the City is transforming Toronto’s urban landscape.
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Keep looking up and up and down and down... In Hinduism, the lotus represents spiritual enlightenment, beauty, fertility, purity, prosperity and eternity. It is said that there's a lotus flower in every Hindu's heart, and that when this lotus blooms, the person achieves enlightenment.
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Cities should honour life's cycles. The future of well-being may depend less on fixing ourselves, and more on redesigning the world around us.
Our granddaughter is participating.
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Even when we don't know name of this plant we can see madala there? Any significants there?
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It therefore seems possible that landscape visualisations, if applied to what is arguably the single greatest environmental issue of all (climate change) may be able to influence attitudes and behaviour, or help trigger policy change, by “making climate change personal” in people’s back yards.
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Knock, knock, who's there?
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This is photo with rear exception, can you guess what is it?
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We celebrated this September 13, 2025 as our 44th anniversary,
with this blossoming plant.
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This early autumn may be able to influence attitudes and behaviour.
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Motivation can seriously affect perception. In this case, walking our dog Jara, seriously affects our attention to the area around Cherry Beach.
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The predominant colour at this time of year [early November] is obviously yellow!
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Maple leaves are adding new nuances.
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The plants on our terrace are going crazy; we are afraid not for very long. Snow is predicted next week.
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Dominant yellow in our favourite Crombie Park, excellent sights.
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The following two images are noticed on different parts of the Crombie Park, strong and alive, adding more colours to our surrounding neighbourhood.
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Maybe it is time now to remind ourselves where this all started, back in early April.
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Methuselah [check Google if you don't know who that is], tree trunk in the Edwards Garden.
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How do we observe and interpret symbols around us? How does our education shape us into being specific observers? Taking our granddaughters to the aquarium is helping them understand how life, us or dragons, are dependent of the biodiversity.
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Blending with the greenery, this creature is hiding in plain sight in High Park.
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Brickworks is a restored biosphere where the brick factory stood for years,
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Today we are at Brickworks to attend the installation: Space for Grief: A Place for Reflection. Grief is a quiet, yet universal force shaping things from mental health to climate resilience, cultural identity to public policy.
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Space for Grief - unspoken conversations, especially in the presence of the colourful plants, hold more than the absence of the loved ones.
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Even discarded plant material might be a powerfull reminder. Colourful bright light too.
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Ireland Park commemorates the Irish Famine migrants who arrived on Toronto’s shores between 1846 and 1849. Rowan Gillespie’s “Departure” series of famine sculptures in Dublin was the starting point. The seven sculptures that stand on the dockside in Dublin are reduced by Rowan to five on the Toronto waterfront. Trees over them stand as a symbol of protection.
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As we are approaching winter, plants from our terrace [see 13 rows of photos back] are moving indoors.
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Artists have an important role to play in the composition of urban space.
[this art composition was found on the ground of Edwards Gardens].
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Biodiversity is inspiring city dwellers to live within their environment actively and creatively, playing out their own ideas and concerns simultaneously involving unconscious and conscious interaction with urban space.
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Even rooftops are becoming green these days. Artificial flower, as this one on the photo right, are enhancing bio experience, why not? ‘Picturing’ the complexities of climate by directly embedding artistic practice into climate change research, employing an interdisciplinary approach to exploring, encouraging and enhancing collaboration between visual artists and climate science communities.
[From Picturing Climate, Mark Kasimovic]
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Visual art can also provide the direct personal experience of climate change
for those who have not yet been affected by it in a significant way.
[From Picturing Climate, Mark Kasimovic].
Sight in the middle is from Distillery Distict and devided one is from brand
new nearby Biidaasige Park, pronounced “bee-daw-si-geh” and meaning
“sunlight shining toward us” in Anishinaabemowin.
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How do we observe and interpret symbols around us? How does our education shape us into being specific observers? Artists have an important role to play
in the composition of urban space. Moreover, inspiring city dwellers
to live within their environment actively and creatively, playing
out their own ideas and concerns simultaneously involving
unconscious and conscious interaction with urban space.
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As a process it involves intimately observing the environment and seeing what may have been previously unobserved. For us contemporary psychogeographers, the drift is purposeful; it can reveal the city’s underlying structure. The psychogeographer knows that the metropolis and even more POSTMETROPOLIS cannot be recorded, it can only be carefully observed and remade.
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Over last 15 years I become the prototype of the obsessive drifter. I totaly understand those that "Love this amazing stump".
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Here we are, first snow, November 9. Biodiversity is still here, it is starting its winter sleep. Love is Love!
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Rediscoveries has to be made with renewed new usage: Rediscover – Renew – Reuse. Psychogeography is the only effective analytical technique, in this rediscovered variation, in the arsenal of weapons of professional sustainable urban planners.
It is absolutely necessary to take a first step on the “ground”. Renewal of basic human needs in urban conglomeration of the future should definitely start form
the pedestrian perspective. It is crucial to make the hidden aspects
of climate science and climate change more visible.
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