Toronto the Good

Photo: K-Billz

Certainly not a comprehensive list, but here are some of my favourite things about Toronto:

• The Toronto Islands
• Summers in the city -- any weekend, from downtown, I can walk in any direction and probably find a festival I don't even know about
• Taste of the Danforth (the annual, primarily Greek, street festival)
• Riverview Farm and the Necropolis Cemetery
• Broadview Park -- across the Don Valley from Riverview with a sunset view of downtown
• Cherry Beach
• The CN Tower with its LED lights -- I can watch them change from the couch in my livingroom
• The view from my apartment of downtown on the right, treetops on the left, and the lake straight ahead in the distance behind The Islands
• The scarves, head-coverings and robes of women from India, Africa and the Mideast -- so feminine and flowing, always flattering, so graceful, and such beautiful colours
• Film festivals
• TVO
• Rick Mercer (I know he's a Maritimer, but his show is based here)
• The city's mayor, David Miller -- an intelligent man with vision
• The George Street Diner (after searching for almost six years, I have found the perfect diner)
• The ravines and the way they weave throughout the city
• The most amazing bookstores, used and new
• Street jewellery
• The Philosopher's Walk, U of T