Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
Wordless Wednesday
Someone get the Jaws of Life – this little guy is stuck!
Actually … rodents can squeeze into some pretty tight spaces, so even thought it looks like he’s stuck I’ll bet that it wasn’t. Maybe he was just resting before he took on the task of wiggling his tummy out of that hole?
My New York Asters are in full bloom.
Every time I look out my kitchen window it seems as if the plant has grown larger. I guess it’s just that more and more blooms are coming out and that makes it seem so much bigger each day.
It’s absolutely lovely though. There must be hundreds of small Asters covering the plant.
It’s getting cool here now in Toronto, but on nice sunny days I still occasionally see a bumble bee hovering around the Asters or some of my other flowering plants.
It’s been a strange gardening year.
There was plenty of rain so for the most part the plants were getting enough water and we saved money on the water bill, but I think that since it was overcast quite a bit some of my real sun loving plants might not have gotten enough light.
My passion flowers (I have 5 or 6 plants ) barely bloomed all summer. I’m actually noticing more blooms now that it’s cooling down than I did in the height of summer.
Passion flowers certainly are pretty when they bloom though aren’t they?
Wordless Wednesday
Aw, isn’t that a sweet picture?
Ok now just to prove that I’m still a dog person, here’s a picture I took last week of my dog while we were on a hike in the park.
Midnight loves sticks, but we don’t let her play with them often because they can splinter and cause big problems. Anyway … she managed to find this old dried out dead tree and she was happy as pie.
While we were in the open areas she had fun with it, but she didn’t get far once we hit the forest trail again. Oh well .. it was fun for a few minutes.
Earlier in the week I told you that Chris and I and our dog Midnight went for a walk in Taylor Creek park here in Toronto …
Remember those muddy dog pictures? (you’ve got to see the pics if you haven’t already, I’ve never seen a dog that well coated in mud!) Well. this city park has these big structures beside the highway (the Don Valley 404) that we’ve always called the elephants … well, because they do kind of look like elephants.
See what I mean?
Anyway .. these “elephants” are actually natural water filters. I guess the rain water is supposed to filter down from the tallest structure to the shortest one and by the time it’s been through all three filters the water is totally clean.
The filters are huge. I stood beside them taking pictures and I’d say they are 30 or more feet tall. They seem to be made out of concrete, but there’s probably some other type of material in them as I think the materials used to make concrete would leach into the water.
The area of the park closest to “the Elephants” was the most colorful.
Most of our trees here in Toronto seem to be holding onto their green leaves, but the weathers been fairly cool all week so I’m sure that will change in an instant.
As you can see in the last picture the Sumacs have started to turn that lovely brilliant red. A clear sign of Autumn around here! The bull rushes (Cat Tails) beside them were starting to break up too, spreading their fluffy seed heads all over the place.
It’s supposed to rain this afternoon but if it doesn’t we might try to go to the park with Midnight again … if not maybe we’ll go on Monday. Maybe the forest will be a little more colorful this time round and I’ll come back with some pretty Fall pictures.
Have the leaves started to turn in your area yet?