Toronto's Old City Hall Day & Night

St. Lawrence Market

The St. Lawrence Market was one of the more unique stops we made in Toronto.  If we lived there, I think we would spend way too much in the fresh meat section.  It was a very colorful place and I wish I would have had more natural light with which to shoot, but the overcast skies did not cooperate.

CN Tower Night & Day

The most iconic feature of the Toronto skyline is the CN Tower.  Our hotel had a nice view of the tower, though I had to figure a secure way to hold my camera out the very small window to get clear photographs of it without dropping the camera.  We went up in the tower one night, but I think I would recommend a daylight trip to anyone wishing to visit it.  The lights used to light the tower cause a lot of reflections on the glass and make it difficult to get good photos.  I also captured a few daytime shots of the skyline from different locations, showing the tower as the focal point on the horizon.

St. Paul's Basilica, Toronto

Saturday evening, we attended mass at St. Paul's Basilica in Toronto.  The design of the facade of the church is loosely based on St. Paul's Outside The Walls in Rome.  I say loosely, as the Roman church does not have a tower next to it and it has a large colonnade extending out from it, which holds the roof of a porch.  Both have a similar roof line, but that is about the extent of the similarities from my perspective.  Nonetheless, the Toronto church was a beautiful building.

Yarn, Direct From The Source

Whilst wandering around Toronto over the Thanksgiving weekend, Valerie and I happened upon a fun window display at the Hudson's Bay Company department store.  The sheep and lambs were adorned in balls of yarn in the traditional colors used by the Hudson's Bay Company since the late-1600s (think wool blankets at Fort Michilimackinac).  For some reason, I only took photos of the yellow sheep, but there were also blue, green, and red ones.