Thursday, August 22, 2024

20 August 2024 Toronto: Colonel Samuel Smith Park

 


Today started out bright and clear so the sun could chase away yesterday's chill.  We packed a picnic lunch and jumped on the 507 trolly west to the park.  I have been calling it Colonel Sanders Park and saying how "finger licking good" it is.  The trolly took about a half hour and we walked a good way all through the park.  It is a bit of a promontory so we extended into the lake a bit.  We could really see the city skyline from here.  We had our lunch at one of the first benches where two black squirrels tried their luck getting to our lunches.  A grey squirrel also tried but we were too hungry to share, so nothing for the rodents.  We saw birds, squirrels that looked like birds and bird dogs.  We spent a few hours at the park and then took the tram back home.  We had our dinner and then headed back out for our evening stroll.  We saw the oddest rainbow over the cityscape.  I even maneuvered to try to get a random couple on the waterfront into the rainbow.


A beautiful entryway


The black squirrel in flight


Cute corgi


Some feral child accommodations


Most primitive


Lots of trees


No lunch today


Goldfinch


Canada Geese


Common Tern


Caspian Tern


Cormorants


Mourning Dove


Red Necked Grebe


Black Swimmer


At the end of our walk


A bay behind us


All of Toronto out there



This spot is fantastic


Towing the sailboats


We found another bench


Marina


American Goldfinch


Possible oil refinery?


Signs of the times


Lots of places on the pole are where we have already been to


At the extreme tip of the promontory 


Lots 'o places to go


Popular spot


The meganderings of the day


Humber College is adjacent to the park


Very quiet here


No end of flowering plants

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The sun flowers bid us adieu 


Thrillers, spillers and fillers


Tree cover galore


Back to our area


Lady in blue, a break back at the house before we go out again for our second walk


A big square rainbow


Big heron heading home to roost


Followed by his seagull friend


The concord supersonic jet in cloud form up top and a duck flying below


Two sailboats playing lower left


Random couple 


Selfie time


Smooch cam



It has been 2 years and 76 days since we began our Migration