Octopedal🐙📷🚲

@octopedal

Featherless biped. Luddite-curious. Likes to cook, eat, read, draw, walk, ride bikes, and take photographs. Almost as smart as a real octopus.

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Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· 22d

The trombonist is loose at the concert! The trombonist is loose at the concert! The Arsenals closing the Beaches Jazz Festival @ Woodbine Park. #EastEndTO

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· 23d

Finishing off another StreetFest with Boneyard. #EastEndTO #Toronto #OpenContainer #PublicDisplayOfAlcohol

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· 25d

Get on down to the Beaches Jazz Festival.

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Jul 16

I don't have that many filters. #improvise #adapt #overcome

A furnace filter strapped to a big fan to clean the air of wildfire smoke

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Jul 16

Having some fun with the wildfire smoke. 😷

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Jul 16

Cormorants in the smoke. #birds #cormorant #smoke #Toronto

2 cormorants on rocks in the water in the wildfire smoke. The picture is a little orange because the smoke makes everything orange.

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Jul 12

Festival of South Asia. Also got some samosas and pakoras to bring home. #😋 #Toronto #EastEndTO #streetfood

Vegetarian combo and naan fresh out of the oven in a take out clamshell on a picnic table at a South Asian street festival in Toronto. Tents and people in the background.

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Jun 29

The moon is beautiful tonight, go outside and look! #moonrise #LakeOntario #TorontoBeaches #EastEndTO

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Jun 27

Heron hunting. #birds #🦉

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Jun 22

Dumpling update. The round ones are parmesan, leek and potato, the crescents are kimchi, bacon and fried onion (which tastes like all-dressed potato chips, but better).

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Jun 21

Midnight dumplings. Listening to jazz while the jazz gumdrop is processing.

A stone slab with 4 unfolded dumpling wrappers with a scoop of filling in the middle of each in the foreground. Behind them is a small cup of water for wetting the wrappers to make them sticky and some dumplings folded in the manner that makes them look like garlic bulbs. There's a metal tray with more dumplings on it behind that but only the edge is in frame.

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Jun 17

What do you say, is it the new Bluesmobile or what?

A beat up black and white ex cop car driving down the street

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Jun 12

Things I find on the ground. #ThingsIfindontheground #beachcombing

A pink plastic beach toy shaped like a smiling octopus with a hat partly buried in the sand at the beach

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 26

I had to draw the new octopus.

Drawing of a recently discovered octopus in black ink over faint pencil

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 24

More scenes from the parking lot at Woodbine Park. Or rather the same scene on a different evening. #Toronto #torontobeaches #eastendTO #photography #streetphotography #sunset #parkinglot

A nearly empty parking lot at sunset, with pink clouds, and orange light reflecting off the windows of the buildings in the distance.

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 24

It rained all day, so I finally started wading through the big backlog of photos I've barely looked at for months and months and months. #photography #Toronto #winterstations #publicart

A 3x4 array of convex round mirrors in red frames affixed to all 4 sides of a lifeguard tower at Toronto's Woodbine Beach, reflecting the surroundings, which comprise trees, people, sand and snow. It's part of the annual Winter Stations art installation.

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 21

Something else I saw on my e walk today: a photo show in an alley (part of Toronto's annual Contact photography festival) contactphoto.com/festival/202...

Sign promoting an art gallery pointing down a Leslieville alley in east Toronto

Cute little gallery space in a brick garage in a Leslieville alley in east Toronto. The garage door is open showing photographs on the white painted brick walls, there's cartoony graffiti around the edge of the door, and some vines.

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 21

Some things I saw on my walk today. #Toronto #Leslieville #photography #streetphotography #seemwhilewalking

2 domed drink containers on a colorful striped bench with a streetcar passing by

A chalkboard sign saying "cute shop" with flowers stars and hearts around it outside a shop

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 19

I don't have any recent favorites for #birdoftheday so here's an old favourite. #birds Swan meet and greet:

A car stopped at the side of the road with a swan standing on the curb looking at the passenger. The swan's head is about level with the window.

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 19

Summer begins. #fireworks #victoriaday #Toronto

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 16

Official municipal sign on an official municipal temporary fence saying "seasonal transformation in progress visit www.toronto.ca/nps caution do not enter"

Trees with pink blossoms on the Victoria College campus (I can be there because I'm an alumnus).

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 14

Some things I saw on a walk last week. #photography #toronto #torontobeaches #eastendtoronto #streetohotography #floorsforthefloorgod

A 3/4 empty parking lot at sunset with a building reflecting orange sky in its windows and some high rises under construction in the distance that are still lit up by the sun.

Telephoto shot of high rise buildings under construction lit by the setting sun

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 14

Some things I saw on my walk this evening. #seenwhilewalking

A Lorax statuette standing next to a small tree in someone's garden

A sticker with a cartoonish drawing of a bee and the word "kind" below. Get it? Bee kind.

A view over Lake Ontario with a Canadian flag attached to a piece of driftwood sticking out of the water that somebody stuck there on Canada Day a couple of years ago.

A sticker stuck to a pole with a drawing of a ghost hovering over a rectangular object. The ghost has its hands raised and the captions say "wash your hands!" and "soap ghost".

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 12

Thing I saw on a ride last week. I think it's a broad winged hawk but it's hard to see. #birds #seenwhilecycling

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 11

Some things I saw last week: a bunch of mergansers #birds #🦉

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· May 7

Thing I saw on my walk this evening. I haven't posted much lately because I haven't had much to post. Early spring where I live is a visual washout (grey skies and mud) but all of a sudden in the past week or two, green is popping out everywhere. #photography #streetphotography #seenwhilewalking

4 small sad pickles (or gherkins if you prefer) in a line from lower left to to top right, at the edge of the road by the curb. Also a few bits of broken glass. Almost like someone dropped a jar of pickles there yesterday and it hasn't been cleared up yet.

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Apr 28

Toronto signs. #Toronto #photography #streetphotography

A city street (Broadview Ave.) in Toronto with a sign outside a sign shop that says "Toronto Signs". A bunch of other shop signs are behind it. plus a street sign and a streetcar stop. There are some people on the sidewalk in spring clothes and a streetcar is coming down the street.

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Apr 23

Gonna tell my kids this is Drake's ice pile. #seenwhilewalking

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Apr 15

Wax on. It'll come off on its own soon enough and I'll have to do this again. #🚲 #chainwax #bikesky

A bicycle chain sitting in a metal tin with melting paraffin wax.

Octopedal🐙📷🚲@octopedal· Apr 9

I have just fonde a secret egg. #seenwhilewalking