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James [November] Harbeck
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Louche left-wing nerd. Words, food, music, beverage alcohol. MA linguistics, PhD theatre. jamesharbeck.com, sesquiotic.com
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

29. Leica X typ 113. Riverdale Park East, Toronto.
In later autumn, with more leaves on the grass than on the trees, a path winds in an S shape between trees and lamps towards a modern grey building of about 15 storeys in the background. Two people and a dog are on the path.
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

28. Sony a7ii, can't remember for sure which lens. McCaul Street, Toronto.
In front of a modern mid-rise brick apartment building, in a brick planter unit, is a bare tree doing jazz hands into the air; Christmas lights (unlit) and a mirror ball are hung from it, and what appears to be a discarded television sits at its base.
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

27. Sony NEX-7, not sure which lens. Trinity Square, Toronto.
Nighttime. Black and white. A stone church roof and high window. In front of it, tree branches with snow on them.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

26. Sony RX100ii. Somewhere in Toronto. King Street? Adelaide? Gerrard? Hmmm
Tree roots looking like crossed and twisty fingers, surrounded by leaves and pine needles and such.
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

25. Leitz Minolta (Leica) CL, Voigtländer 21mm f/4, Rollei Paul & Reinhold 640 ISO. Corktown Common, Toronto.
A black-and-white photo: Winter; a snowy path curves across a bridge from the foreground around the left, curving around a tall tree, centre, with some lower bushes behind it.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

24. Leica X typ 113. Queen Street, Toronto.
The top of the tall slab of the Sheraton Hotel erupts from an explosion of pink flowering tree
November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

23. Minolta XG-1, Orwo NP100 film. Sugar Beach, Toronto.
A black-and-white photo of a tall willow tree growing out of a sandy beach; behind it are a boardwalk, on which someone is standing with a bike, and more trees and more beach with umbrellas and people. Farther back, the quay edge and the water.
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Hangin in the country, TO style
A plastic Muskoka patio chair and a side table made of a board and two stumps facing Toronto harbour and the eruption of tall buildings on the other side of it
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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A view from Thursday afternoon
Sunset with clouds; the sun is lowering into a tree line across water, and between there and here is a ferry dock, and closer than that is the water's edge and a beach and a person sitting on the beach facing the water. This is at Ward's Island, Toronto.
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Ya know what this is?

Black licorice vodka.

Holy shit, Absolut makes black licorice vodka?

Well…
I am holding in my hand, in front of an IKEA floor lamp, a bottle of Absolut vodka that contains an opaque black liquid
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

22. Leica X typ 113. Ward's Island, Toronto.
A black-and-white photo of a leafless tree on the right next to a picnic table, centre, at the edge of a body of water—specifically Toronto Harbour—on the other side of which are buildings, growing taller towards the left. Three birds fly like widely spaced ellipses low across the surface of the water.
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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One more office, bro
I am in Boxcar Social Summerhill at a table in the back facing a sidelight window but with the old brick, metal, and rough wood espresso bar towards the front off to my left. I am in Boxcar Social Summerhill at a table in the back facing a sidelight window but with the old brick, metal, and rough wood espresso bar towards the front off to my left.
November 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

21. Sony RX100ii. Berczy Park, Toronto.
A row of trees with leaves mostly yellow, a few green, stretches away from the camera in a broad pavement with tables and chairs; leaves lie on the pavement, and in the background folded orange patio umbrellas and something orange reflected in the wet pavement add a colour accent. One person stands in profile on the left near a table.
November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

(If you don't see this, have you already gotten away?)
Two GO trains facing each other on either side of a platform
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Heading home from the office
Downtown Toronto at dusk as seen from the deck of the Ongiara
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Island office
I’m in the Island Café on Ward’s Island, where they have set up a gemütlich tent with plastic windows and the usual marble tables
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

20. Sony NEX-7, can't remember the lens. Financial district, Toronto.
On either side, a tall modern concrete-and-glass building extending out of frame. Behind, another of the same. Thrusting itself into the space between, a tall bushy green tree.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

19. Leica IIf, Industar-22 50mm f/3.5, Portra 800. Queen Street, Toronto.
A boarded-up, soon-to-be-demolished-for-a-new-tower restaurant front with signage for T. C. J. Restaurant, Thai Chinese & Japanese Cuisine; planted in a small grass square in the sidewalk in front of it is a small, scrawny, young tree, needing a support just to stay standing, its few branches barely reaching higher than the single-storey roof behind.
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Local office
I’m at The Black Canary Espresso Bar on Sherbourne, at the window counter
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

18. Olympus XA, Fujicolor 400. Don Mills Road, Toronto.
A black-and-white photo of a leafless tree in shadow with a bright background; a field stretches behind it and, on the far side, there are high-rise apartment towers and a strip mall. This is Flemingdon Park soccer field.
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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This just popped into my head, can't figure it out
Liza with an Uzi
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Office at the window
I am in Tango Palace Coffee Company at a round table by a window with a view to a chain-link fence that has a sign on it saying “Tango Patio”
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

17. Sony NEX-7, can't remember the lens. Trinity Square, Toronto.
Night. A stone doorway with a wooden door surmounted by a tripartite window glowing yellow. Above it, a white light illuminating the area in front. Next to the doorway, the number 10 in glowing red. In front of the door, below three steps, is a paved yard with footprints in the snow and, standing before the doorway, bare, supplicant, a tree like a rough Y.
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Mamdani-style poster that says OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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One urban tree photo a day, all month.

16. Leica X typ 113. Somewhere around Beverly Street or Huron Street, Toronto, can't quite remember.
A three-storey brick building with an outdoor metal staircase up to an upper-floor door, and, in front of it, a leafless tree that almost parallels the angle of the stairs, with branches that reach up and seem to cradle windows.
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM