Riverdale Park and Toronto Necropolis

[vaneramos]

Today Danny djjo participated in a wool demonstration at Riverdale Park. I intended to keep him company for a little while then stroll over to Church and Wellesley, but ended up finding enough to do and photograph to keep myself happy for several hours while he knitted in the demonstration barn. I began by wandering through Toronto Necropolis across the street.





It was an outstanding day for photographs, so I will have many more to post when I get home next week. For now, if you don't want to wake the lion, then don't go behind the cut.

Comments

Re: too wonderful!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

These are two of four lions on a burial monument in the Necropolis (a cemetary).

[grandiva1968.livejournal.com]

I need you to come to Austin so I can take more pictures!

[apel.livejournal.com]

LOL Oh, look a friend for my crabby stone lion. :-)

those are wonderful!

[ranjtheobscure.livejournal.com]

Great pictures!

[ubermunkey.livejournal.com]

those are cool
nice pics

[dakoopst.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I don't like the wide-awake lion...

There's something cartoonish and way too smiley about its expression. I expect it to break out in a Paul Lynde voice or something...

Great pics, though.

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

OMG, Stacey, you are WAY too young to remember Paul Lynde! You are TOTALLY making up that reference, girl!

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

Canadians are delightfully kinky. Two woofy men go out for the day; one takes pictures of stone lions in a graveyard, one knits. It's like a collision of Aslan in "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe" and Hermione Granger making hats for house-elves in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." All I can get MY man to do is play video games. Americans are boring. I'm moving. The first steamer trunk arrives on your doorstep in the morning.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Aw... he looked so peaceful, too!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Do you mean you need a photography buddy?

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Where did you find that? It looks more like a building ornament than something from a cemetary. Very cool.

Re: those are wonderful!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks, C. Cheers.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

And you don't like clowns either, right? 8:o)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Is that why you named your bass "Lumberjack"?

I guess I'm lucky to have found a man who works on computers all day, so he would rather do something else all night. But I've never caught him pressing wildflowers.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I thought he looked sad. ;-)

Re: too wonderful!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

[grandiva1968.livejournal.com]

yupyupyupyupyupyupyup

[apel.livejournal.com]

Yes, there are two of these on the office building next to where I work. That building has a lot of interesting iconography on it. For instance, at the pinnacle of the central tower, a young man cast in bronze stands on a ball. He's holding a book in one hand and holds his other hand to his forehead to shade his eyes so that he can look farther. I'm wondering what he is looking for. It's intriguing.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

It would be fun to hang out with you.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Intriguing, yes! I had hoped to find more iconography in the Necropolis, but there was very little; just one more image, which I'll post this week. I suppose the cemetary is mostly Protestant. However, It had some beautiful old stones and lichen, some of which I'll show.

[apel.livejournal.com]

Here the Protestants seem to have been rather fond of fanciful decorations. I'm looking forward to those pictures.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Very exciting. I had hoped to see more of that kind of thing. Toronto has some larger cemetaries for me to explore, though I doubt I'll find much that is older or more ornate than at the Necropolis.

[grandiva1968.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Someday, Jerry.