Thursday Doors is a weekly feature hosted by Norm Frampton at Norm 2.0. It’s an opportunity to share photos of our favourite doors.
In keeping with my tendency to bend rules, I have 3 offerings to this week’s Thursday Doors that admittedly, are not about the door at all … but what’s around it.
I hope you enjoy this peek around downtown Toronto.
Whenever I look at that last photo, I can’t help but start humming from that Steve Miller Band tune … “I’m a joker, I’m a smoker, I’m a midnight toker”.
Check out Norm’s blog and this week’s serving of doors … perhaps you might be inspired to post a door of your own!
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These are absolutely great doors. They shout out at you – hey, check me out. Great submissions. 🙂
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Thanks Judy 🙂 Finding the doors is one challenge, getting a decent photo is an entirely different issue!
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Great photos although my favourite is definitely that bling bike!
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At first I thought it was a shameful thing to leave a bike out in the snow like that … then I saw the bling and realized the bike was probably decorative 🙂
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Nicely presented, Joanne! I liked the movie, “Kinky Boots” based on a true story of a British shoe company choosing a new direction. The film features Chiwetel Ejiofor from “12 Years a Slave.” The other doors, pot smoke shop and the hippie green floral place were totally original! 🙂
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I didn’t know there was also a Kinky Boots movie! Thanks – I will have to go looking for it.
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I got it at the library and loved the comraderie, among the workers, plus the challenges of the various characters. I watched it with my Mom and brother. I felt it was quite entertaining, Joanne. Not a musical either. Smiles, Robin
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My era of music! Love that song 🙂
I’m glad you are a rule “bender” it helps me feel less lonely in my world of “create your own rules”
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The world needs more people who are willing to step outside of bounds to blaze a new trail 🙂
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I agree!
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What a great selection of doors, brilliant.
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Thank you … so many great finds to choose from 🙂
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With your comment on the Steve Miller band I had to go get the music and take that walk down memory lane https://youtu.be/Eb1TIGvvWWE . I really loved the last door photo.
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Listening to Steve Miller brought back a lot memories … all good ones 🙂
That last door is my favourite. I hope to get back downtown and re-explore this area. I suspect there are a lot of treasures down there 😉
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Great finds! 🙂 Xx
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Thank you! 🙂
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These are great Joanne. I love the boots but that Cannawide door just cracks me up. I think I will let H have the snowy bike. 🙂
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When I first saw the motorcycle, my reaction was ‘who would leave their bike out in the snow like that? … until I realized it was supposed to be decorative 🙂
That Cannawide door cracks me up too. Obviously not trying to be discreet and blend into the neighbourhood 😉
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Haha discreet is not quite the word to describe it. 🙂
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Such fun. Love the legs and the blinded bike in the snow.
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I love little unexpected finds when travelling about doing other stuff. It makes me smile … glad you agree 🙂
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My, how times have changed! I was just hearing about a major ruling in 1967 that said forbidding interracial marriage was unconstitutional…and look at us now. 😀 I sure hope those guys who were jailed for marijuana have been released by now.
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Times certainly have changed, but I think our past doesn’t necessarily get ‘forgotten’ along the way.
I have a friend whose son has a conviction for marijuana possession from his teen years, and still cannot enter the US because of it.
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So sad!
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Love the doors, every one of them. The legs: does she have to pee? Sorry. My first ‘concern’ maybe because of my time of life. 😀
The song words remind me of the days when… 😀 😀
You have me giggling while reading this post. Two thumbs UP.
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You and me, both. Whenever I go somewhere different, the first thing I do is scout out the location of the washrooms. A sad reality of this age
I still have that damn earworm in my head. Now that I have the song stuck in my head, I can’t get rid of it!!
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Ha ha ha.Knowing the location of bathrooms is of utmost importance! 😀
Ha ha.
Yeah. Now I have that song in my head…
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I love it that you bend the rules. A woman after my own heart. (Bizarrely, the quote on my Doctor Who calendar today? “I’d hate to live my life by some boring rulebook like you do.” – The Seventh Doctor. 😀 )
I think you could guess my favourite. I’ll never tire of snow pictures. (Because I don’t have to live with it. I know. Yada yada yada.)
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Is it possible to be a conformist who thinks rules should be bent occasionally?
I will always think of you when it snows now. I’ll call them MOSY days 🙂
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A great bending of the rules, i’d say. Brilliant!
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Thank you! I’m happy when my non-conformist tendencies are appreciated. My mom, teachers, and various bosses over the years were less enthusiastic about it 😉
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I love the rule bending! Actually, I consider this a very creative response to the challenge. The red kinky boots are fabulous!
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Glad you like my doors … or rather what is around them 😉
A pair of kickass boots will always get my attention!
Now, if only I could get that damn earworm out of my head …
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Oh, Jo what HAVE you done? This post should come with an ‘earworm’ warning! I do like it when you bend the rules… 🙂
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I know!! That damn earworm has been following me all day! … and try singing it to yourself without a bit of a shoulder dance at the same time!
I don’t want to know what people in the grocery store thought of me this afternoon.
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I like all three photos and the first one actually is a good looking door.
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It’s also a very good looking theatre 🙂
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I love the last shot! Is that a sculpture of the god of weed?
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Oh. Is there such a thing?
I hadn’t considered that. Actually I hadn’t considered anything. I just thought it looked very unusual for what was an otherwise normal-ish street 🙂
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I’m still gobsmacked by that first pair of boots! 🙂 As for bending the rules, check out how many entries Norm has!!
janet
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Thanks Janet – I really love those boots too! There is no question as to what is currently playing at the theatre 😉
… and my comment about bending the rules wasn’t about the number of doors I was offering, but more about the fact that it wasn’t the door at all that captured my attention 🙂
I’m glad Norm has no rules at all!!
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OK – I have Steve Miller as an ear worm now 🙂 Great choices! I think I like the ‘kinky boots’ the best!
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I have the same earworm now. Damn. It was so unintentional 😉
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These are great! Really can’t decide which is my favorite. I love the colors but the Cannawide takes it for…well…reasons.
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Each one of those photos makes me smile for different reasons …. but the weed shop is my favourite. I really want to go sometime and explore this neighbourhood more 🙂
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The blinged up motorcycle would make my husband cry. I love the shoes 🙂
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I’m assuming he would cry because that’s a terrible thing to do to a motorcycle? 🙂
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The third looks familiar … in Amsterdam we a see a lot of them 🙂 Nice shots!
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hehehehe! I’m sure you do! I admit it’s the first time I saw one in Canada … and it wasn’t exactly discrete 🙂
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Love the boots!
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… and the show is really good too 🙂
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“Bend the rules”? What rules!!!???
Nice ones, but the first is my fave. I wanna see that show (and that theatre!) next time I’m there.
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I like that attitude! No rules 🙂
Kinky Boots was a lot of fun … it starts off a bit slowly but then it finds its groove. I recommend it 🙂
… and I like the Royal Alex too.
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Love your reference to the Steve Miller band – perfect! And that green door – awesome 🙂
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Unfortunately now it’s a earworm and I can’t get the tune out of my head 🙂
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I like your choice to bend the rules – these are more interesting than regular doors. I like them all, but the bottom one is funny.
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I know! I’m going to have to go back to Kensington Market one day to find this place again. It deserves another look 🙂
Unfortunately I shot it in b&w by accident and didn’t notice until much later.
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Ah, I hate it when that happens. I don’t put my camera in BW mode anymore, just change it in editing so as to avoid this.
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I admit I’m a camera dummy. I don’t know how I got it into b&w mode in the 1st place.
Needless to say, when I get a really good photo, it is a time of wild celebration for I know it wasn’t operator talent 😉
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HAHAHAHA. That is funny. I suppose you could just shoot away in BW until you accidentally get back into color again. That could be a fun game.
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HAHAHAHA! I’m glad I’m back to the world of colour again 🙂
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What great finds, Joanne. I do believe I like it even better when you bend the rules a bit!
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Even better – I’ve discovered there are no rules! Yahoo 🙂
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