Read this article. While I wholeheartedly agree that distracted driving is a major problem, I dislike the fact that the Wheels section of the Toronto Star is the same entity that promotes all kind of driving-related gadgets. Hypocrisy?
Ms. GAuthor Archives
Leaf Litter
Leaf litter is such a misnomer. In reality fallen and torn leaves can be quite beautiful and abstract. Photography manuals always say to choose the best, most perfect leaves and flowers as subjects. I prefer the most chewed up ones.
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- Peony leaves changing colour.
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- Fallen leaves, probably birch, on hostas.
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- Someone enjoyed this hosta leaf as a meal.
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- More fallen leaves and a little fluff!
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- A leaf gently drifted onto position on these weeds by the lake.
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- Curled up hosta leaf.
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- Teeny, tiny leaf on leaf.
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- Heuchera leaves - actual colours.
Food Share at the Ontario Food Terminal
On Saturday Sept. 22, Food Share, a Toronto charity, is hosting an open house at the Ontario Food Terminal. This is a unique opportunity to see what goes on at this hub of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Go to Food Share’s website to see details on Fresh Fest.
Ontario Food Terminal, 165 The Queensway, Etobicoke.
$10 per ticket.
I am going with my Mom.
IT WAS AMAZING: not quite where your food comes from, but definitely how it gets to you! Here are a few photos to start…
Animals by the side of the road
Equine scene on Scriven Road just north of Rice Lake. The second guy just wouldn’t turn around.
Cows resting on each other.
Kestrel on a wire.
Rouge Park
Signs of fall were emerging even on the lovely afternoon of August 26 at Celebration Forest in Rouge Park.
August at the Cottage
There’s not much happening, so here are a few random pictures, including some from a hike at Nature Areas 1 and 2 at Trent University in Peterborough.
Cottage Creatures
A heron, four carp, a Muscovy duck and a hummingbird – all on one May day at the cottage.
Spring Flowers
These pictures of spring flowers were taken at Rosetta McLain Gardens in Scarborough. It is a beautiful place to people watch (especially wedding parties having their photos taken), look out over the lake, or simply look at flowers – as the bench plate attests. Now that summer is here and the temperatures are soaring, it is nice to look back on lively rather than wilted flowers.
Spring at Doors Open
For Doors Open Toronto in May we visited the Doris McCarthy house – Fool’s Paradise – in Scarborough. Though the house tour was interesting – she was a former art teacher who became a major Canadian artist – I was most interested in the garden atop the Scarborough Bluffs.
Hostas Galore
I love the texture of hostas. These lovely specimens were found at Rosetta McLain Gardens in Scarborough in May. I had to lie on the ground to get them – nobody seemed to blink an eye.
