“Are you a photographer?”
Yup!
“Are you famous?”
Not really.
“Making money?”
Um, sort of.
“Here, take a picture of this!”
Sure!
Category: #Sunnyside365 (Page 13 of 39)
Following this photo, I’ve got 100 days left to go with #Sunnyside365. It’s been a labour of love. Now the count-down to the finish line begins!
Another one of the charming little homes in Sunnyside, this one sits next to the Sunnyside LRT Platform. Famous for the vintage car ‘art project’ parked out front, the old truck as a front lawn feature as well as countless little curiosities all over the property.
“I’m a journalism student at Mount Royal University. I graduate in June. This is my sixth shift at Molly Malone’s.
I love Kensington. It’s dynamic. It feels very creative here. There’s just this energy about it. It’s kind of unlike any other neighbourhood in Calgary.” Hannah, Server at Molly Malone’s Pub, Kensington.
“This is Theo. He was born 03/03/03. He just celebrated his thirteenth birthday a couple days ago. He’s hard of hearing and he doesn’t walk so far anymore but hey, neither do I. Ha!”
Even in the swampy, late-winter-to-early-spring transition these houses look cute.
Marbled blue skies and new condo developments–things in Kensington always to look up to!
Cyclists are out cruising and pub-hopping on Kensington Road.
A welcome sight to Hillhurst-Sunnyside: dogs, skateboards, guitars, and short sleeves. An indication that Spring is just around the corner.
Halifax’s own ‘King of Donair‘ shows up at Meraki Supply Co. with a pop-up shop! King of Donair is here with East Coast Lifestyle clothing to raise funds for the Calgary Children’s Hospital Foundation. Hundreds of people have showed up for a taste of the Nova Scotia donair legends.
“Put it this way: you buy an eighteen hundred square foot house in this neighbourhood for around eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. You tear it down and rebuild it to a three thousand or thirty-five hundred square foot house at a cost of about six hundred thousand. You take it to the maximum elevation, or the designer makes this big, square looking thing, and by the time you get to landscaping, you’re in it for a million and a half dollars.
It doesn’t make sense to me. These houses have been here for a hundred years. Generations of kids grew up in them and moved on. I think it’s way more affordable to gut them down to the frames and studs, redesign and open up the rooms, maybe put an addition on the back part to extend the kitchen…. after you’re all done and said, you can have a really efficient house for the utilities. With a couple of solar panels in these old little homes, you can live off the power grid. Imagine! You can pull the permits yourself, get a couple of really good electrical and plumbing crews, and you wouldn’t have to spend more than say, forty to fifty thousand.
And imagine this, it’s a lot easier on your neighbours if you have a house that fits with the look and feel of the community instead of one that blocks out their sun once the house hits these crazy high elevations.”