Some time spent on neighbourhood walks and also exploring a new part of the city this week. It’s been a hot week - not that I’m complaining but it seems that more and more over these past few years we’ve missed out on our true spring weather. Two weeks ago there were still overnight frost advisories and then this week we had daytime temperatures in the high twenty degrees...with one day over thirty degrees!
Located east of Toronto’s downtown core is a stretch of sandy shoreline and it, and the local residential community, are known as “The Beach”. Although the strip of sand is continuous, different sections do have different names, and there is a lovely boardwalk running along its length. It was a fantastic way to spend a few hours on a sunny, very warm, spring day!
Always something happening along Toronto’s waterfront. The shoreline you can see in the distance to the behind the barge/crane, is the Leslie Street Spit.
Over 90 beach volleyball courts can be found here - now all empty thanks to the pandemic.
A few weeks ago a little boy here in Toronto started a ‘rock snake’ beside the boardwalk - it has now been added to by anyone who wants and stretches for quite a distance!
This simple clapboard structure with its rooftop lookout tower is the Leuty Lifeguard Station. Built in 1920, and continuing to the present day, lifeguards have been watching over Kew Beach swimmers and boaters. Lifeguards based here are credited with saving over 6,000 lives.
Aren’t these houses in an amazing location!
This was just such a burst of colour!
Isn’t this branch just begging for a swing? Maybe not appropriate in a cemetery but still...
Not too many magnolia buds yet but there are a few delicate ones still hanging on.
Sir Oliver Mowat (1820-1903) was a delegate to the Intercolonial Conference at Québec in 1864, at which the basis was laid for the federal union of the British North American Provinces in a new nation.
I wonder if the artist’s name is Grace, or if that’s just a lovely word for someone to choose?
This poor little tree - I don’t know what happened to it over the winter and it looks like only one half of it is blooming. Not sure how long it will last.
They’re a new phenomenon - Mask Trees
Scarborough Bluffs are an escarpment at the east side of Toronto. At the highest point the escarpment rises 90 metres up from the coastline and spans a length of 15 kms. A number of parks are located along The Bluffs, most at the top but a couple are along the base at the shoreline. Today I went to one called Bluffers Park which is the only one with direct access to the lake and a sandy beach.
A hot, hazy and humid day...nice day for a paddleboard.
One of many yacht clubs in the area, with boats being put back in the water.
I couldn’t get any closer for this photo, but all along the left side are some of the fanciest houseboats I’ve ever seen.
The further away from the parking lot you get, the fewer people on the beach.
Until eventually it’s just me and two swans
How do you like this - goslings here too. And you can tell they’re getting a bit older.
This baby robin was all by itself - it is old enough to be learning to fly but it’s still got lots of its fluff.
Mount Hope Cemetery was established in 1898 and was the fifth catholic cemetery in Toronto. Edmund Sullivan, a native of Ireland, has the distinction of being the first person to be buried in Mount Hope, in 1900.
I don’t know if the sidewalk ends there or not but if it is there, you’re not walking on it.
Burke Brook, which runs through the Sherwood Park ravine area is actually a small tributary of the West Don River...which eventually flows into Lake Ontario.
A male cardinal
‘Let us Love’
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