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Local community association president notes in a report, “Silver Moon Marlin Spring will be building a 56 storey condominium on the Esso property on the SE corner of Lake Shore and Park Lawn”. Nothing further in the report.

Rdaner is right! The crane is indeed still there From earlier today

Extremely disappointing if they have indeed made the former beach area inaccessible. I used to take our grandchildren to that beach when they were in town. There was a fallen tree which had washed ashore at some time that they loved to play on.

It’s not that I dislike the lighting as such. I do believe, however, that we need to consider this as part of the general problem of “light pollution.“ There is the cumulative effect on the environment of generating the electricity to power the light displays of buildings like this around the...

A view from Mimico to the city core. In an enormous scientific breakthrough, ornithologists have decoded two calls of gulls on ice. The first call means, “My feet are cold!” The second, in response, is “I told you we should fly south like other birds!”

On a sunny December day…

Aura looks better after nightfall. A view from TGH.

Good Morning! 6:48 AM

November divers, Humber Bay Shores

A good year for goldenrod…and the construction is coming along too.

And from today’s walk: cleanup in progress…

The three booms across Mimico Creek are an attempt to mitigate the damage from the chemical spill after the Etobicoke factory fire. There is a smaller boom preventing the sludge from getting into the pond near the bottom of the photo. Earler in the season there had been a swans’ nest in the...

Red sky at morning, Forest fire warning!

Dusk…

Shooting the moon as it rises over Lake Ontario during a late dinner. (Fish tacos - it’s Cinco de Mayo, after all.) The shot “reflects badly” on the photographer !

A grey day in Humber Bay Shores but worth a walk in the park anyways…

Swan Lake, a rainy May day in Mimico…

Springtime rainbow, off the mouth of Mimico Creek.

“If Giotto and Michelangelo lived in Toronto, Giotto would be unemployed and Michelangelo would move to New York” So, J. E. H. MacDonald, later of the Group of Seven. He was speaking of the dearth of public art in early 20th century Toronto. Apparently he said this kind of thing often enough and...

A warm Spring day on Humber Bay… In the second photo, from the Calatrava Bridge over Mimico Creek, there is a nesting swan in the reeds near the centre of the shot.