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I realized that in the previous post, Spring High-rise, I was slightly ahead of the seasons. Perhaps it is wishful thinking. Even my falls trees post is prolonging the season (or evading the reality), and winter is really not far off.
Here is another of the tree patterns and juxtapositions I found, a photo I took several years ago and which exhibited at a local gallery. The church's spirals are interlaced with the haphazard branches of the nearby tree, and with those ubiquitous electric wires. Just looking up provides a wealth of visions.
The photo above is of the Jarvis Street Baptist Church, which is located on Church Street in downtown Toronto. Adjacent to the church is the Toronto Baptist Seminary. Church Street boasts of a church in every corner, including Toronto's Anglican cathedral, the Cathedral Church of St. James, which culminates at the grandly named King Street.
These days, Church Street is better known for the "gay village" just a few streets up from the Jarvis Street Baptist Church. How far the mighty have fallen (although I would say that even a Baptist church in downtown Toronto is a sign of the times, removed from the Anglican tradition the original English brought with them). But I do see the church doors open on (some) Sundays, so it is functioning.
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Toronto: Dudley & Burns, Printers, 1897.
[Scroll down the above directory link to see various views and plans of the church, although the earliest photos are in 1944). Here is a more current view].
