While even I admit that fall is an extremely beautiful time of year - so fresh and colourful, I am always reminded that soon the leaves will all be on the ground and then covered over in snow. Winter is coming - run!

I plan on going to the all night Saturday October 4, 2008 Toronto art thing that is Scotiabank's Nuit Blanche (all nighter in french) - one night, all night. Hopefully I will have some great photos of some of the events. Then on Sunday the Hamilton family (sans Kevin) will go to the Toronto Zoo for a day of animals.

The pumpkins wait in the field, ready for people to take home for Halloween. They will become decorations, faces and pumpkin pie. I bought a few during the visit to Allison's Farm Market in Georgetown.

Toronto's annual all night contemporary art event called nuit blanche (or all nighter in french) ran on Saturday night so I spent several hours walking around the downtown core and distillery district looking at exhibitions and independent projects. They expected 1 million people to come out to the event and the streets were definitely full.

The picture above is inside Maple Leaf Gardens where "Without Persons, 2008" was staged. It was pretty cool being in the old Gardens again - it doesn't look like much has changed since it was home to the Maple Leafs hockey team and the occasional concert. The exhibition featured two screens with computer voices having a dialogue with screen projecting vibrations coming from the voices. The screen shown was the female while across the rink to the right was the male screen.

Below is the "Stereoscope, 2008" interactive multimedia installation at Toronto's City Hall. The window had screens which became a display screen for animations, including a pong game.

After a few hours sleep Ann, Erin and I drive to the Toronto Zoo to see some animals and enjoy the nice fall day. It was bath time for the lion and he made a funny face so I asked him to hold it while I took some pictures. To see more photos of the animals at the zoo click on my webpage here.