“Find the place between the old and the young. That’s where you live. Trust me, I’ve been here enough years. Eventually, the people who you look after will grow old and you won’t be long behind them. It’s good to have neighbours that you trust, they’ll be the ones checking in on you to make sure you’re okay. It happened in the flood a couple years ago, it’ll happen again somehow. I’m sure of that.”

“Oh I don’t know. Spring started back in January as far as I’m concerned. I just hope that all these trees don’t start growing their leafs just to have a snow storm come and ruin it all in April.

Anyways, as far as I’m concerned, it’s when the larch trees start sprouting their pines. You ever seen it happen? It’s pretty neat. There’s one sprouting right now on Gladstone and 11 Street. You should go shoot a picture of it. Neatest thing in the world.”

“This one took a couple of days. We painted a layer on it first, but we lost a lot of the texture from the rocks. They get a lot of grafitti, you know? So they decided to put a mural here. It’s a street scene from Florence. Well, it’s an impression of a street scene.

I take my time. I’m retired so I don’t work as fast as I used to. I’ve been doing these murals for years. I’ve got another one down the street on the red brick building. It’s a scene from France at night–well, an impression of one.” Bob, painting a mural on the brick parking lot divider at Osteria De Medici, along Kensington Road and 10th Street NW.

“I’m Kamil and these are my records. It’s record day on Wednesday…. or whenever I feel like doing this.

The Crosley is awesome because it has its own built in pre-amp. Yeah, I can pick it up and take it anywhere. I brought a lot of my own 45s, but I haven’t gotten to them yet tonight.”

Kamil hosts a record night on Wednesday evenings, playing vinyl from his own collection (or whatever attendees bring with them), at The Roasterie on 10th Street NW.

The first insects of spring have been spotted!

It’s the first day of Spring!

Sunny skies in Sunnyside.