Standing beside the Heart Labyrinth holding a Purple Ballon twisted into what I believe is a Sword.
Mazes have Monsters.
Heart Labyrinths have Love.
Thankfully the Sword is not needed.
…Still looks like fun to have one!
Standing beside the Heart Labyrinth holding a Purple Ballon twisted into what I believe is a Sword.
Mazes have Monsters.
Heart Labyrinths have Love.
Thankfully the Sword is not needed.
…Still looks like fun to have one!
Middle of February 2023,
Warm enough for this little one to scooter around the Christie Pits Park Labyrinth . . .
Middle of August 2022,
Wading in the Wading Pool Labyrinth
In Christie Pits Park, Toronto . . .
Quite Grateful to see these images and time lapse video.
It shows how ugly it is right now,
because of how much the colours haves faded off my Labyrinth painted on the surface of the wading pool in Christie Pits Park in Toronto.
This suddenly bumps UP which of my Labyrinths will be re-painted first during my semi-regular Labyrinth Maintenance Rounds …
Christie Pits Park will soon gets it Labyrinth back,
Beautiful as ever, and with a slight redesign expansion to 12 Lanes !
As soon as I can find paint roller, enough blue paint, and time.
My Labyrinth in the Wading Pool in Christie Pits Park will no longer be filled with water this season.
This past weekend,
The Water Pump was shut off officially for this year.
The Wading Pool Labyrinth is now a full time Labyrinth until next Summer.
I usually visit it before and after Wading Pool Season to see what needs to be repainted.
This year,
I visited it once in late July and painted the broken arcs that had white caulking cement pasted over them.
Hopefully I will visit it once more before winter proper arrives to repaint whatever needs refreshing.
The Larger Idea is to paint over my decade-plus old existing Labyrinth design.
I could then paint an entirely NEW Labyrinth Design.
Maybe.
hey.p.aula twitching atop my Christie Pits Park Wading Pool Labyrinth . . .
I visited the Wading Pool in Christie Pits Park in Toronto the other night.
Unlike the kid in this photograph, I wasn’t wearing a Shark T-Shirt.
Had brought paint supplies with me to repaint the fading lines like the ones you can ( or cannot! ) see here.
Even after sunset, the surface was too wet to re-paint the lines.
I repainted in green wherever the recently added white caulking had interrupted the painted Labyrinth Lines and left at that for now.
Hopefully I can refresh the design in September . . .
Part of Growing Up
Includes learning what happens when pushing the Splash Pad water feature activation button in October . . .
Children never walk a Labyrinth,
Children always run !
There are five multi-coloured Classic Labyrinths I first painted on Easter Sunday 2009 along the pathway beside the ice hockey rink in the north-east corner of Trinity-Bellwoods Park, Toronto.
The five Labyrinths are 3, 7, 3, 11 and 3 Lanes respectively.
Together,
They comprise what I call The “Trinity-Bellwoods Park Labyrinth Walk”.
This is the 7 Lane Classic Labyrinth at the south end of The Walk . . .
Whoops !
Skateboarders have told me the Labyrinth’s lines I paint help them with situation awareness when boarding round and round the Wading Pool . . .
Why did the Muslim go to Church on Sunday?
To walk a canvas labyrinth of course! 😉
Earlier today, I finally made my many-years-long overdue trek out to Timothy Eaton Memorial Church on St. Clair Avenue West in Forest Hill.
For many years, they have had an open invitation to walk their canvas labyrinth on the first Sunday morning of the month.
Climate change being what it is nowadays, it remained mild enough for me to enjoy a pleasant walk from home rather than the need to bike or transit to reach TEMC.
I’d never entered the Church before, and I was in time for Services having arrived before they started. A pleasant older gentleman named George guided me to the labyrinth table in a nearby space where a mini-Christmas market was set up.
The space was filled with people and surrounded with tables topped with wonderful colourful crafts and handmade presents. Prices ranged from a few toonies to many dozens of dollars. Towards one wall, a table doubled as the cash register and the labyrinth table.
A hand-carved wooden finger labyrinth caught my attention. I introduced myself, saying that I had come to walk their canvas labyrinth. A friendly lady who was just about to head upstairs to the Reception Room where it was placed, lead the way.
Strange as this may sound, this was the first time I had ever seen a canvas labyrinth up close. I hadn’t realized that fact until I was standing in the doorway to the Reception Room.
Flickering candles cornered each of the eight points of the white canvas. This was a purple seven circuit inner chartes design. Three pillow cushions alternated in the centre alcoves. The centre itself had a small clay sculpture of people circled arm to shoulder to arm to shoulder to arm.
Light labyrinth walking music was playing. As I entered the room, children were walking, not running, but walking the labyrinth very quickly.
As I awaited the traffic to clear until it was my turn to walk the canvas, I signed the guestbook. A few books, news clippings, and newsletters about labyrinths were spread on a table. The table with the CD player had labyrinth related materials aimed at kids. Natural light, as well as intermittent vehicle traffic sounds from St. Clair Avenue, found their way into the room via the slightly open windows.
It all added up to an unexpected ambiance. I have never, never experienced walking any labyrinth like I did this morning. I am still processing it all…
The Canvas Labyrinth upon the carpet is similar in meditative feeling to the Muslim prayer mat laid upon a carpet. The candles and natural light felt outdoorsy yet we were indoors. Car sounds competing with the soft instrumental music combined for a unique sound environment. Weird, strange, yet re-charging all at once.
Susan Howard is chair of the TEMC Labyrinth Committee.
We had a wonderful kindred conversation.
I learned that today was the first and only time TEMC had ever rented this smaller labyrinth. Turns out this particular canvas belongs to JoAnn Stevenson from the Labyrinth Community Network.
For just this one Sunday, the Flora McCrea Auditorium was unavailable. The Church’s larger 36 foot canvas labyrinth was too big for this smaller Reception Room. Hence, the rented labyrinth. Had I not visited TEMC today, I would have missed walking this smaller canvas seven lane labyrinth.
Susan invited me to attend their special year-end labyrinth walk. They will have their regular larger labyrinth laid out. After a year of phenomenal change in the World, what better way to reflect on it all than to walk a large Canvas Labyrinth?
The Eve of New Year’s Eve Labyrinth Walk: Friday, December 30, 2011 (1 pm to 3 pm)
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, 230 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto
Labyrinth or maze? Whatever the case, people actually do try it: #KM5T http://twitpic.com/5euwzm #showyourballs
— Kensington Market (@kensington_m5t) June 21, 2011