Photo of the Day: Spring melt in Ontario

By Richard K. Barry

Photo by James Kelley

A couple of years ago a friend came up to visit me in Toronto. He took some pictures in provincial parkland a few hours north of the city probably either in or around Algonquin Park. It would have been almost exactly this time of year. The ice and snow was starting to melt and spring was just around the corner. 

Photo of the day: A Havana Industriales baseball cap

By Richard K. Barry

A friend just got back from a trip to Cuba. Yes, those of us who live in Canada and have Canadian passports get to do that.

He brought this hat back, which is the cap worn by the Havana Industriales.

Here's the Wikipedia entry for the team, which I find quite interesting: a team hated as much as the New York Yankees. I can relate.

Industriales is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. One of the two teams based in the city of Havana. Industriales is historically the most successful team in the National Series, the main domestic competition in post-revolutionary Cuban baseball. They are similar to the New York Yankees in the sense that they have fans all over the country, being a sure sellout in any stadium, also hated by many outside the capital. 

(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)

Photo of the day: Winter in Toronto (not this year)

By Richard K. Barry

We're not having much of a winter in Toronto this year, not that this bothers me that much, but maybe a little. I've been here over 30 years and can't remember a season with so little snow.

Anyway, just as a reminder, I found this shot of one of the city's iconic streetcars from a winter past. 

(Cross-posted at Lippmann's Ghost.)