Teaching World History … and personal stuff

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.

Summer Flowers

My latest attempts at photographing the shapes, colours and little creatures of summer.

Last Day of School 2012