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Swans and a skyline, from Humber Bay Park

Vita on the Lake from behind Beyond the Sea (or Beyoncé, as my nieces call it.)

If I were thinking of laying out $2M for a unit, I think I would be looking for a kitchen designed more clearly for actual, you know, cooking. At the very least I hope the vase is hiding another electrical outlet from our view.

Toronto Fire Services Personnel were carrying out an ice and water safety and rescue exercise today. The firefighters would walk to the edge of the open water and bounce until they broke through the ice. In one shot you can see the trainee in mid plunge. The instructor would shout ”Roll” to...

Humber Bay Park. The gate in the photo blocks kayak or canoe access from the mouth of Mimico Creek to a large pond which is the habitat of many waterfowl in warmer weather. Right now the pond is chiefly the habitat of skaters.

From a walk in a winter’s day... there are more shots of the Fire services exercise in the general photos thread.

As a leftover from the sixties, this one always gets me humming the old Iron Butterfly song, “In a garden da Vita” or something like that. Sorry, I’ll try better next time. But in the meantime,, here’s a photo...

A winter scene....

An older fibreglass cabin cruiser was abandoned this winter in one of the coves of Humber Bay Shores Park. It was moored to the dock by the boat ramp, for those who know the area. My son who is in the boat business predicted, rightly, that a fibreglass hull would not withstand the ice. The boat...

City of Gold

Warning! A brief historical note: UTS, University of Toronto Schools, has been a school since 1910, based in that building. It was founded as an experimental and model school for the university, in a building shared with the college of education. The reason for the plural, “schools” was that...

Skating Day in Humber Bay

Here’s the closeup of the L Tower raccoon. https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/raccoon-toronto-crane-poop Sorry, Mods! I know this is off topic and I will stop here.

I don’t know if I can still find the photo, but the tower crane operator at L Tower, who posted regularly here on UT, once put up a photo of a raccoon looking at him in his cab ... more than 200 m above ground level!

A construction worker on the job at a pond in Humber Bay Shores Park

Agreed. We do not pay sufficient attention to light pollution and the attendant waste of energy.

“Lifting of the H”. What the H does that mean? Thanks in advance.

Not to worry. In the whole cycle of things it doesn’t matter very much.

The occasional sidecar, errr, I mean sidestep, into motorcycles is fine with me. And thanks for the Indiana Jones photo!

Ana One? As is “Ana one, Ana two..”