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The Waterfall

March 31, 2007 by Tricia

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This is a photo of the waterfall near Toronto’s CN Tower. I took this photo last August when my husbands brother and kids were visiting from Chicago for a family wedding. I think the kids and my sister in law had gone up into the CN Tower to get a view of the city from above, while Chris, his brother and I waited outside.


We wandered around and a short distance from the Tower we discovered this waterfall. I guess I hadn’t walked in this area very often because I didn’t remember ever having seen this water fall before.

I think I took the photo at about 10 or 11 at night. I’ll have to visit the area again sometime during the day to take more photos of the waterfall. It’s quite large and it’s very pretty.

We have some more great photos up on our other sites today. Chris has one over at Odd Planet that I took when we were traveling to Ottawa last summer. It’s of a lake so it fits the water theme perfectly. Then I’ve got a great photo of rain droplets on As the Garden grows. You must visit the other sites – please. I’d love to find out if you like the photos!





Filed Under: Entertainment, Photo Hunters, Photography Tagged With: Canada, chicago, CN Tower, Downtown, Family, night, photo, photos, Summer, Toronto, visiting, water, waterfall

If I were stranded on a deserted island …

March 29, 2007 by Tricia

My friend Skeet just wrote a post Not quite Gilligan’s Isle and she picked five people that she thought she might be able to survive with on a desert island for a year.

I was one of the lucky people she thought she might be able to tolerate for that long. Of course, she enlisted me as the groups gardener in the hopes that I’d grow veggies and keep them all fed. I know she wrote her post late at night so I’ll forgive her for forgetting that I’m a nurse. I’m sure having a medical professional trapped on a desert island with you couldn’t be all that bad, now could it? I also make a mean lean-to if I do say so myself.

Now, if I were trapped on desert island with five other people I wonder who else I might most want to be trapped there with me?

I certainly think I’d like to have Mr. Fab on the island. I’m not really sure how good his survival skills might be, but I’m pretty sure he’d be able to cheer us up and keep us amused for the year. Once whatever survival related work was done each day we could just gather round him as if he were a television set and let him babble away about lemurs and other crazy things that pop into that wild mind of his and it would be entertaining.

Mrs. Lifecruiser would have to be there too. She’s a world traveler and has gathered knowledge from all the areas she’s been in. I’m sure she’d use her experiences to help us survive. Plus she’s becoming an experienced Ship’s Captain so she might be able build us a boat and help us navigate off the island before the year was through.

I think Brian would also be a good person to have along. He seems to be a bit of a philosopher and I think he’d end up being the realist of the group and help keep us on track.

Now, I don’t know Kahea as well as I probably should, especially since she comes here and leaves me nice comments ALL the time, however, she seems like she’s a very resourceful person and you always want someone like that along for the ride when you’re stuck on a island!

Heather, as in Heather from Beautiful BC and her dog Hugo would be the final person that I think I would pick, especially if I could only have five other people on the Island with me. Believe me, I’d pick more if I could! Heather and her pup Hugo love British Columbia, and since that’s an area of Canada that is quite rugged and full of outdoorsy people I’m pretty sure that Heather must have some survival skills up her sleeve.

Now that I’ve chosen my fellow stranded islanders I wonder who they might choose if they were stuck on an island for a year? Would they take me too? Or do they know other people who might help them survive for a whole year on a deserted island? Keep an eye on their sites, maybe they’ll tell us soon.

Filed Under: Entertainment, Linky Love, Meme, Recreation Tagged With: Brian, creative, desert island, entertaining, Heather, Kahea, lifecruiser, Mr. Fab, resourceful, resourceful people, Skeet, stranded, survival skills, survive

Spring is here – the garden is coming back to life

March 25, 2007 by Tricia

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Peonies, rhododendron, hosta, lilies, daylilies …

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In about two months one small area of my garden, near the patio, will look like this. The Rhododendron will be blooming with it’s large cherry red flowers, the hosta leaves will be in perfect shape as yet untouched by nasty slugs, and the peonies (karl Rosenfield) and day lilies will be preparing to bloom.

Spring, late spring and early summer are the time of year that I think I enjoy the garden the most. Almost every day there is something new to look at. During that time of year the plants are growing fast, and a plant that didn’t have flower buds one day suddenly seems to develop tiny flower buds almost over night.

A few of the plants in my garden have started to show signs that they are waking up. I can’t wait until several more plants come back to life and start to grow.

Who else is excited now that it’s spring?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: daylilies, daylily, dormancy, flowers, garden, green thumb, hosta, new growth, peonies, photo, photos, plants, Rhododendron, spring, sunday, wake up

The boardwalk

March 24, 2007 by Tricia

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September, Woodbine Beach in Toronto

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We went to the beach last year in September. It was late afternoon and although the day had been nice it was starting to get a little chilly. I suppose that’s why the beach was almost empty.

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I think that I took this photo on the same day. This is part of Toronto’s famous boardwalk. This is what I would call the beginning of the boardwalk in the Ashbridges Bay area. As you can see the boardwalk was almost empty that day.

On nice days, the beach is crowded with people getting sun or playing volleyball. Throughout the whole year the boardwalk is a great place to walk. Residents lucky enough to live in that area of Toronto regularly walk their dogs, cats and just about any kind of pet that you can imagine on the boardwalk.

Right beside the boardwalk there’s a bicycle path.

We aren’t too far from the beach area. It’s about a 10 minute drive or a half hour bike ride. It’s not uncommon for Chris and I to get on our bikes anytime from April through to November and bike down to the beach area, or on some of the nice trails in the area.

We’re actually pretty lucky living in Toronto. The whole inner core of the city has ravines and parks where city residents can walk or bike. You can actually travel quite a distance throughout the city on the paths that interconnect throughout the city.

Biking on the trails, or walking on the boardwalk is a great way to get some exercise and enjoy a nice day.

Do you make time to enjoy some of the things that you can do in your city or town?

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Photo Hunters, Photography, Recreation, Toronto Tagged With: Ashbridges Bay, beach, bicycle, bicycle path, bike, boardwalk, Canada, exercise, pets, photo, photo hunter, photos, Toronto, trails, volleyball, walk, Walking, Woodbine Beach

Act of revenge?

March 21, 2007 by Tricia

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Don’t you just love this photo?

My sister had two German Sheppard – German Sheppard/ Doberman mix dogs when I used to live with her. A long long time ago …

I remember one day when my sisters husband was going to drive us to work, and then go off duck hunting – he decided not to take the dogs with him. He didn’t hunt often, but when he did, he usually did bring the dogs.

He had decided not to bring them along that day because one of the dogs liked to make a game of things. Every time my brother in law would take a shot, the dog would jump out of the bushes and try to catch the expelled cartridge. Naturally the ducks or geese would see the dog jump out (and I suppose hear the shot too) and scatter. Needless to say my brother in law wasn’t a very successful hunter when he’d bring the dogs.

The dogs knew that my brother in law was going out hunting. They’d watched him pack up his gear. When we left, we put the dogs in the basement for the day.

I think I got home first that evening. I went downstairs to rescue the dogs as soon as I got home so that they could go outside for a while.

Much to my surprise the basement was a mess – somewhat like you see above, but with lots of clothes scattered about too.

The two dogs had taken revenge on my brother in law. They had ripped up some of his clean laundry that had been either folded or hung in the basement to drip dry, and they’d attacked some of his books and other belongings. My sister and I both had clothing and other items that we owned in the basement, but the dogs hadn’t touched anything of ours. Only my brother in laws things were damaged.

Smart dogs huh? They knew who they were mad at and exactly how to get back at him too!

Filed Under: Entertainment, Family, Humor, Pets and animals, Recreation, Wordless Wednesday Tagged With: brother in law, cartridge, Doberman, dog, dogs, duck, Geese, german sheppard, hunt, hunting, revenge, shell, shredded, shredded clothes, shredded papers

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