WIND TURBINE IN MOTION

WIND TURBINE IN MOTION

Wind turbine powering some of the facilities at the CNE grounds. Toronto Windmill (Exhibition Place Turbine), is a 91-metre windmill belonging to WindShare co-operative, erected on December 18, 2002. It is the first wind turbine installed in a major North American urban city centre. The turbine production capacity helps displace up to 380 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, which is the equivalent of taking 1,300 cars off the road or planting 30,000 trees each year.

REMEMBERING OUR OLD DAYS AT THE C.N.E.

REMEMBERING OUR GOOD OLD DAYS AT THE C.N.E

http://tonferns.blogspot.ca/search/label/C.N.E.%202013

Sweet is the memory of distant friends!

Sweet is the memory of distant friends!

Like the mellow rays of the departing sun,

it falls tenderly,

yet sadly,

on the heart. 

~ Washington Irving ~

Paper Roses - TonFerns on the Harmonica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yFDxfmQax8

'Paper Roses' 

TonFerns on the Harmonica

Beautiful GOA - Now Free For All

Moon & Monroe Towers

Moon & Monroe Towers

Mississauga,

Ontario

GOAN - GONE HIS WAY

GOAN WAY

Spending days wisely

Yesterday is a cancelled check;

tomorrow is a promissory note;

today is ready cash. Spend it wisely.

Race Car Livery by TonFerns

VEHICLE LIVERY
in Mississauga, Ontario.
by TonFerns 

 Hand-cut pressure-sensitive vinyl

applied on a car that raced (and won!)

in Las Vegas.

Time for Roe

Time for Caviar

Sturgeon Moon

THE STURGEON MOON

~ 17 August 2016, Mississauga ~ 

Some Native American tribes called the August

Moon the “Sturgeon Moon” because they knew that the sturgeon of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain were most readily caught during this Full Moon. They also called August's Moon the “Full Green Corn Moon.”

 ~ The Old Farmer's Almanac ~ 

Kanak Vrindavan Mahal - Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Art was a palace once, things great and fair,

And strong and holy, found a temple there.

~ Richard Le Gallienne

Kanak Vrindavan is a garden in Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan. It is built in a valley surrounded by Aravali hills and is located on the way to the Amer Fort at the bottom of the Nahargarh hill. The place is approx 8 km north of the Jaipur city.

Pics of Fresh Picks

Flower - Rose of Sharon

Flower

by Rabindranath Tagore

Pluck this little flower

and take it, delay not!

I fear lest it droop

and drop into the dust.

I may not find a place in thy garland,

but honour it with a touch of

pain from thy hand and pluck it.

I fear lest the day end before I am aware,

and the time of offering go by.

Though its colour be not deep

and its smell be faint,

use this flower

in thy service

and pluck it while there is time.

Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus Syriacus) is a common name that has been applied to several different species of flowering plants that are valued in different parts of the world. It is also a biblical expression. 

The name "Rose of Sharon" first appears in English in 1611 in the King James Version of the Bible. ~ Wikipedia. Shrub AltheaAlso known as the Korean Rose, it is the national flower of South Korea and also called shrub althea.

What's in a name? that which we call a rose

by any other name would smell as sweet. ~ William Shakespeare.

Flowers

TASTE OF UNIONVILLE_ MARKHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL

DAHLIA FERNANDES

Interview

CTV24

Broken Streams - Lost Trails

Broken Streams - Lost Trails

Jet contrails sketches in the setting sun.

Over the Moon's Edge

I was simply over the moon with this shot yesterday!

Great News - Dahlia's Interview on CTV coming up!

Exciting news!

Dahlia (my daughter) will be on 

CP24 Toronto's Breaking News

with super host Jaime G

this Friday, Aug 12 from 7-9am EST

with talented guitarist Miles Finlayson.

Chatting TD Markham Jazz Festival

with Brigit O'Regan and Carolyn Douse,

singing tunes from her upcoming EP

while touching your taste buds 

with the sweet tastes of

Old Firehall Confectionery!!!

Cross across the river crossing - Amherstburg, Ontario

It was evening.

I drove leisurely along the river bank.

And then I came across

this cross

in silhouette

in the sunset

glimmering

at the river crossing

in Amherstburg, Ontario.

Holy Spirit Church, Barrie, Ontario

Reaching out to the night skies

Reaching out to the night skies.

Harbour Front,

Toronto - Ontario.

Flags Gallery, Thornton, Ontario

Flags on HW 27

Thornton, Ontario

My Daughter Dahlia's new EP song release

Super excited to share the pre-release (sneak peak) of my daughter Dahlia Fernandes' first single 'Everybody Learns' of her second EP.

Produced by talented producer and multi-instrumentalist NICK NAME.

https://soundcloud.com/…/pre-release-everybody-learns-prod-…

Written by: Dahlia Fernandes
Instrumental by: NICK NAME
Additional Engineering: Kevin Dietz and Erik Solarski
Additional Backup Vocals - Dylan J. Usher

https://soundcloud.com/dahliafernandes/pre-release-everybody-learns-prod-by-nick-name

Colours of Cookstown, Ontario

Colours of quaint  Cookstown, Ontario

on HW27

Remembering Joel D'Souza

REMEMBERING JOEL

First Death Anniversary

Single Art Story by Dahlia Fernandes

SINGLE ART STORY

by Dahlia Fernandes

Recently, I asked my sweet 4 year old nephew (my brother Denzil's Son, Ari Lukasz if he wanted to paint a picture of his parents. He was super excited and rushed to get all his paints and paper.

I asked him to first draw his mum Kate who he quickly drew up on the right hand side of the page and then his dad who he put to her left. I then asked him to draw a "heart" between them and he asked me to remind him what a heart shaped looked like so I shaped both my hands to form a heart to which he responded promptly with "Oh yeh! I know that...mmm but I don't want to draw that Daya (his way of calling me 'Dahlia'). I don't want to draw that heart, I want to draw another type of heart".

I was confused. My whole life I always thought of a heart being symbolically drawn one way. I asked him what he meant and what he started to explain to me blew me away.

He asked me "Hmm...what's Daddy's age?" I told him what it was and he went and grabbed a circular gear from his Lego Box and came back to his painting (you can see it in the pic below). He said "This is Daddy's heart!" and put it on the paper and with his paint outlined the shape. He then asked me for his mom's age who is slightly younger than his dad so he went and grabbed a slightly smaller circular gear from his Lego box and came back and put the piece to my face and said "This is Mommy's heart!" and put it on the piece of paper inside his "daddy's heart" and drew a second circle with it. I was speechless. He then proceeded to paint his heart inside the two circles and in absolute joy screamed "All done!".

I quickly painted his name on the bottom right hand corner of the page as he cannot write his name yet.

I sent the image as inspiration to the incredible designer @creative.destination who did an amazing job bringing it all together with absolute genius and creativity! The result? A happy smile on my face for a very long time and a lesson I learned in thinking outside the box on what "Love/Heart" can be.
Everybody Learns (to Love) - Single Releasing Soon!

Dahlia Fernandes

TonFerns Window Art

TONFERNS

Window Art

 BEFORE

AFTER