My Favourite Photos of 2015

It was another fun year for the Toronto Dreams Project, rambling around the city leaving dreams in historical places, snapping photos with my phone as I went. And with just a few days left in 2015, I figured I would share some of my favourite shots from the year that was. My very favourite is probably the photo above: taken from Ward's Island in November. Below, you'll find twenty more — starting with the most Instragrammable new landmark in Toronto.

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The brand new Toronto sign.

The Pan Am Games Closing Ceremony fireworks from Ward's Island

The brand new Toronto sign.

The Queen Street viaduct. Heraclitus, the Weeping Philosopher.

The Guild Park. From the old 1903 Bank of Nova. Used to be on King Street.

The Terry Fox Miracle Mile at Canoe Landing Park. By Douglas Coupland.

The room full of Henry Moore sculptures at the AGO

Gordo the Barosaurus at the ROM. Lost in the archives for 40 years.

The newly luminous "luminous veil" on the Bloor Street Viaduct.

Anish Kapoor's "Mountain." Simcoe Park. Same guy who did Chicago's bean.

Summer in High Park.

Summer in High Park.

The August view from the island ferry.

The Highland Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. August in Scarborough.

Autumn in the Kawartha Lakes.

At the Blue Jays first playoff game in 22 years.

October in the Moore Park Ravine.

The Toronto-Dominion Centre. Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

November on Ward's Island.

December waves on Lake Ontario. Near East Point. Scarborough Bluffs.

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New & Old Photos of Casa Loma

Over the last few weeks, I made a couple of visits to our magnificent, kitschy castle on the hill above Davenport: one while I was researching my big post about the history of the place, "Casa Loma & The Crooked Knight", which you can read here; and a second for the public consultation meeting discussing the possibility of turning part of the castle — or more likely the stables and/or potting shed — into a Toronto Museum.

I took my camera — well, um, phone — with me, so I could take photos and mix in some archival images, too. You can find the full gallery on Facebook here. (You should be able access whether or not you have an account.) And, as always, you can follow me on Instagram or Twitter to see my other photos as I post them: @TODreamsProject.

Photos of the Humber Arboretum

The Humber Arboretum is way up in the top left-hand corner of the city, along the banks of the Humber River near Finch & Highway 427, just behind the Humber College campus. It's pretty beautiful — and I hadn't been there since I went to nature camp there when I was little kid — so I made a couple of visit earlier this year: one at the end of the summer, one once the leaves had started to change. I took a bunch of photos, which you can check out on Facebook (whether or not you have an account) here.