Amanda Geensen was walking with her partner near their home in the Queen and Woodbine streets area in mid-June when they saw a woman leaving an envelope in a newsstand.

Geensen thought it was odd and passed it by, but on the way home she picked it up. The envelope had the word ‘love’ airbrushed on it and inside there was a love poem to The Beach.

“I love that you stretch the width of the city and offer windows of lake and conversations of strangers,” it read.

“It made our night,” said Geensen, who manages a photography store. “It was such a great thing. Work has been crazy, and it uplifted the night.”

The woman was poet Lindsay Zier-Vogel, 32, and the poem was one of almost 500 she has been peppering the city with since early June.

It’s all part of the Love Lettering Project, which Zier-Vogel started seven years ago. In February, for this year’s edition, she asked people to send her what they love about Toronto.

The result is 65 original poems that have become 500 art pieces, which she slips into airmail envelopes and leaves all around the city.

“I just like putting them out in the universe,” she said.