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Daily Walk Kingston, Ontario Life in general Photography

Morning Walk: July 18, 2025

Hey, man, sometimes you just want to take pictures of flowers.

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Morning Walk: July 17, 2025

Little libraries and resource boxes of the neighbourhood. They’re, uh, more understocked than I feel they usually are. I didn’t set out to do Sad Photo Series #37. Maybe there’s a seasonality to this. Maybe our capitalist billionaire-fever-dream dystopia is manifesting in new and horrible ways. I dunno.

My new friend, Rick Cigarettes:

Faded Spongebob:

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Morning Walk: July 16, 2025

This Telephone Pole Will Change Your Life… Twice

Dumpster Claw

Community Radio!

Big Crane on Campus

Best Shawarma In Town

Stauffer Library’s Architecture Makes No Goddamn Sense And Looks Kind Of Like A Hat For Those Game of Thrones Frozen Zombie Things

My Friend Bébé Danger, On Our Garage Roof (1-2)

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Morning Walk: July 15, 2025

Pop of colour

Community Garden

Tug!

Who Gave Their Lives for the Empire

Sleepy Gatehouse

Sunflowers

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Morning Walk: July 14, 2025

Night Crane

Bumblebee Rental (edited to obfuscate phone #)

Before the Sidewalk Cafe Opens

Why the scare quotes?

Utility Sunflowers

Glorious Shitbox (edited to obscure plate)

Private Parking, Public Art

My Dick Stinks

Red Wall

Approaching a Rabbit

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Morning Walk: July 11, 2025

Windowboxes 1-3

Lost Garage

Well, That’s A Technically Accurate Thing You Can Call A Junk Shop, I Suppose

Marie Antoinette Exhibition July 18 (zoom in, and yes, it’s a real thing, I checked)

My New Friend Sheriff Sharky Tremendous

Lil Dog

Door Roses

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Morning Walk: July 10, 2025

Back Wall

Mr. Brightside Meets the Cardigans

EWL RENO A ED R S FREE NT BREAKFAST

Mom, Where Do Baby Carts Come From?

Weird Stump

Missory

Pained Man

Crack Batz

Canada Tile

Caged Heat (Pump)1I know it’s not a heat pump

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    I know it’s not a heat pump
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Morning Walk: July 9, 2025

Forlorn Boots

Flower Tricycle

Park Plinth 1

Park Plinth 2 (Inscription – Man, That Minister Sure Died Young)

Artistic Anchor at Dawn Shot

Three Cruise Boats

Drinks Door

Ivy Wall

Funky Smokestacks

Sidewalk Raspberries

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Morning walk: July 7, 2025

Churches in the NOP area of Kingston today.

Without going full CLA$$WAR, the difference is striking: the historically wealthy downtown features stately limestone churches; in the traditional working class North of Princess ‘hoods, it’s all wood frame or brick buildings, and/or converted houses or other buildings. The exception being St. John, the only legit large limestone church more than a stone’s throw from downtown, at Patrick & Quebec St., in the formerly firmly working-class Skeleton Park / “The Boys” neighbourhood.

St. Paul’s (below) is technically NOP, but by one block, so it’s here for accuracy but doesn’t really alter the general pattern of big, fancy downtown churches and scrappier churches in the lower-income areas. Even among these, our Lady of Fatima is a legitimately impressive brick Portugese church, and St. Luke is a more traditional brick church.

But the others are pretty divergent.

For instance: Bible Baptist Church is just a “LIVE BAIT” style yellow light-up sign outside somebody’s brick house (there’s a ramp and a different entrance at the back, but to take a photo I’d have to get super intrusively up this person’s driveway, which I’m not comfortable with 1and, I mean, they’ve turned their home into a church, so maybe they should be okay with it, but it’s a testament (ha!) to the ‘house-ness’ of it all that I feel really weird about walking up the driveway and similarly, PREPARE THE WAY/International House of Prayer is a sign on the side of a post-war frame home; Zion is the basement of a seniors’ complex (also owned/run by the United Church, IIRC). I didn’t photograph former churches, of which there are also several.

Further north and west, the Kingscourt > John Counter neighbourhood has more churches, much more in the ’80s-onward Pentacostal “big low brick buildings” style, but this was already a 1-hour-plus ramble.

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    and, I mean, they’ve turned their home into a church, so maybe they should be okay with it, but it’s a testament (ha!) to the ‘house-ness’ of it all that I feel really weird about walking up the driveway
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Morning Walk, July 4, 2025

Big churches of downtown Kingston. At some point soon, I’ll start covering the more modest churches North of Princess (NOP) here in Kingston — much more interesting, IMO, in their variety and scrappiness than these stately limestone churches.