Pastel Pencils to Last a Lifetime!

Artistic Pastel Pencils

 by Walt Blake

of StonewaterStudio

www.stonwaterstudio.ca

Surely the 'Most Photographed Art by Visitors'
(some taken with visitors posing with the pencils,
including myself, and lots of 'selfies' of course!)

at Artfest Toronto 

in the Distillery Historic District.
Fri. 29 August 2014 thru till Mon.1 August 2014

Pictured above is an exhibit of my neighbour's booth. Blessed with good neighbours, Edna's Pickles had visitors of all sorts. Some were real characters who just passed by my wife's booth and others who stopped by to purchase. Apart from the usual and often visitor query "Do you make these yourself?", "My mother makes pickles too" and "Are you here all days of the year?" I do remember a classic one from this show. It went like this:

Visitor:  Do you sell on line?

Edna   :  Yes, we do - through our web-site.

Visitor:  Do you ship them as well?

Edna   :  (Silently)  Duh!

For the number of visitors that I noticed at the show, for us overall it seemed that it was a slightly slow show than usual in sales, giving me some time to go around the 'District' and take some 'Historic' pictures! Here they are below:

Spring Blooms at the Distillery Historic District - Toronto

OLD TRUCK AT THE DISTILLERY HISTORIC DISTRICT, TORONTO

A STROLL ALONG THE LANES ON THE COBBLESTONES OF THE HISTORIC DISTILLERY DISTRICT, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Distillery Historic District, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ART & SCULPTURE AT THE DISTILLERY HISTORIC DISTRICT, TORONTO

The CN Tower

(View from the Parliament Street, Distillery Historic District)

Distillery Historic District, Toronto, Canada

Distillery Historic District, Toronto, Canada

FARMER'S BOUNTY

Joy and anxiety abound on the farmer’s face
Ever so cheerful and eager
It’s time now to savour
The harvest of his labour.


Photo by: Tony Fernandes

There is an aptly named quaint lane called Market Lane, in the Distillery Historic District, Toronto. This area is a popular tourist attraction. Every Sunday in the summer season farmers from different places in Ontario travel to the District to sell home grown fresh fruits and great variety of vegetables and other produce. Home made pickles, relishes, chutneys, jams and honey are also sold.

The Distillery District is an historic district to the east of downtown Toronto, Canada. It comprises of 40 heritage buildings and 10 streets. The buildings are reminiscent of a Gothic design and Victorian architecture in North America.

The district once housed the Gooderham and Worts distillery, founded in 1832. It was the largest distillery in the world providing over 2 millions gallons of whisky exported on the world market.