Mirvish Village, Toronto

You might not know where this 'Mirvish Village' place is but if I say Bathurst / Bloor St., or College / Spadina, I'm sure you will have a clue.  I was having fun with my family and I took some pictures of the streets.  This is like another part of Toronto with different cultures and stuff.  It's nice to escape from the up-town life and come here once in a while to enjoy the street atmosphere and do a little window shopping.  =) 

 Honest Eds, a landmark discount store located at the corner of Bathurst St. and Bloor St.

 I don't even know if I can take pictures here in the store....just give it a try!

 It has all sorts of actor/actresses poster from the 50's and 60's.  Too bad....I recognize none...

 These shopping bags are old too....

 You can get tones of different items from Honest Eds, souvenir is one of them.

 Beans and chick peas, only selling at $.50 per can.  PS, nice hand writings.

 Mom asked me to take a picture of this:  A piece of honeycomb place inside a honey jar.

 Guess what this is!  LOL!  It's the glass ball hang underneath a wind chime.

 Pencils specifically designed for architects...why do their shapes need to be that special?!

 This is some sort of toys for kids.  I've seen it somewhere, it's just I don't know what exactly it is.

 Marbles!

 Gosh, I can't believe marbles have become so fancy nowadays!  They even have different 'themes' and 'series' now.... Eg, insect series, animal series, galaxy series...etc!

 Tooth paste for only $.99 each....and they have a whole skid with different brands!

 Pigeons having lunch at a street corner.  =)

 You can see all sorts of weird stuff in downtown Toronto.  Bicycle like this one is one of them.

 These houses here in the downtown area are over 50 years old... Never think these houses are cheap, each one might cost over half a million dollar!!

 Greens cover the whole wall of a house...  They all died during the winter time and grow again next year.

 'Bathurst Street Theatre', it looks more like a church to me...

 This building looks even more old...70 years perhaps?!

 Green apples!!  I saw it at the backyard of a local resident.  You can't pick any unless you have a ladder... =(

 See....Toronto has all kinds of weird things...who would stick a feather in a broken tree?!

 Tomatoes??  No!!  Cherries?!  No!!  ...I don't even know what this is....an ugly plants got cute fruits like this and I bet you, it's not eatable!

 Fresh Chinese bottle gourds!!  I wonder if there is any special technique the local farmer used to plant the gourd in this shape!

 You don't find these in local supermarkets....you may find several sell by local street vendors, but beware, these local street vendors are rude sometimes!  You can take picture of their goods only if you are buying from them!!  This granny was yelling at me when I took picture of her gourds...

Nimbus clouds coming from the north out of a sudden....not looking good....

In less than 5 minutes, it was all dark....gosh...

 ...and it started to pour for 15 minutes...

 Life returned to normal after the heavy rain.  These are peppers, it's almost Fall now and I guess it's the season for peppers, but I don't know if these are eatable or not...

 This is another type of pepper, looks like a tomato to me.  =)

 Here is a closer shot of the peppers.  It's 'pointing the sky', so I will assume it's pretty spicy at some points.

 I like plants with 'curves', so I took a picture of this...  =)

 ...I don't know what this is...it looks like a plant to me more than something that's eatable...

 This looks like a bunch of grass to me, but the granny said this is pumpkin leaf & flower.  Just cut these into small pieces and stir fry with anything, it should taste good she said...

A look at the local vendors, I took the shot while Mom was busy chatting with one of them.

 Jumbo humongous fuzzy melon!!  You won't believe how big these melons are 'til you see them!!  I had a chance to took this pic 'coz Mom was chatting with the seller!  LOL!

 Mom was driving fast and I figured it will be neat if I can snap shot Yonge St...   It turned out everything was fuzzy except for that silver car in the middle!  Interesting!

 On my way home going on DVP...  Traffic jam...that's not a surprise...

After the rain, the sky turns out blue with nice altostratus clouds.