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Christmas Poems & Pictures
Christmas Poems & Pictures “Music on Christmas Morning” by Anne Brontë Music I love - but never strainCould kindle raptures so divine,So grief assuage, so conquer pain,And rouse this pensive heart of mine -As that we hear on Christmas morn,Upon the wintry breezes borne. “Twas the Night Before Christmas” by C. C. Moore …And then, in …
Christie Pits Baseball
Intercounty Baseball at Christie Pits Christie Pits for Summer Baseball and Sports Fun Since the Blue Jays are playing Gosh Awful baseball with confiscatory prices for everything at a game including the tickets , my Tennis buddy and I decided to take in a Toronto Maple Leafs Intercounty Baseball game with the Kitchner Rangers at …
Allan Gardens Easter Show
As we have seen Spring dawdles and dallies with Winter in Toronto for triple or more weeks of cool, dank, and drenched daze of Faux Spring in the GTA. So in these pressing times, this party seeks relief at the city’s designated Spring-reminder Shelters. Two favorites are Allan Gardens and Edwards Park and Gardens. Since …
Spring Dawdles
Across Canada Spring tarries, plays hide and seek with Winter for 4-6 weeks of overtime. Yes BC and sometimes Alberta get the Pacific borme reprieve from Winter’s Dalliance while the rest of Canada has to wait and wonder what true Spring is like. The Masters Golf Tornament in Augusta Georgia taunts Ontarians with a four …
Toronto’s Fall Colors
Fall Colors in Toronto are a bit reluctant, a dash of sporadic sparkles, appearing in fits and starts, but blushingly exotic when found: This freakish Nature, becoming as irascible as the the current weather cycling on bye, is a departure from expectations – especially in the Humber River Valley which has accommodated such weather departures …
Fall Hues Enchantments
The Fall Colors are reluctant this year – at mid October when normally there is a crescendo of Oaken Ochre, Maple Red & Orange, Aspen and Birch in shimmering yellows and even exotic hued Sumac the goto places in the ravines and valleys of Toronto have only glimpses of the last two years glorious parade …
Spring Has Sprung
3 weeks ago, our posting was that Spring was very tardy, a month in and no sign of green; not even leafbuds on the trees. Well now it is safe to announce that … Green is in Now I was going to put an exclamation point at the end of “Green is in”, but inspection …
Waiting for Spring
A time honored Toronto …. no an Ontario ritual … okay, a Canadian tradition is to wait for Spring to officially arrive. Or more explicitly, for Winter to be gone completely. No frosty mornings, nor mid day snow flurries, no night time ice patches on the roads. You would think in this unmistakable era of …
The Tapering of Honest Eds
Here is the scene at Honest Eds just before Christmas 2016. Of course lots of activity as its shopping time and for one final spree Torontonians can indulge themselves in the search for bargains to be found at Honest Eds. And a year later the Store is enduring a slow dismantling in December; but this is …
Finding your way to Scottish Dancing in Edwards Gardens
If you have not been there in awhile, Edwards Gardens has changed dramatically – especially around the lodge at the North entrance to the gardens. If it is official Spring in Toronto [ the beginning of June] you will need this guide to get to the Scottish Dancing each Tuesday in June. Here is some of what …
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