I went for a walk in Biidaasige Park on Christmas Day, a new park on the Toronto waterfront in the former industrial portlands. The Don River and the portlands were an important part of Toronto’s industrial economy for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, but unsurprisingly their industrial role was hard on the environment and significant efforts have been made over the last few decades to renaturalize the Don River valley and parts of the waterfront now that industry has mostly left. Part of this is allowing the Don River to take a more natural course into the lake through what is now the park.
Here is the new Cherry Street bridge as the river flows into the lake:
On the topic of photography, we saw the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition today at the Royal Ontario Museum. It’s from the competition organized by the Natural History Museum in London and is on display there as well. Worth catching if you’re interested in wildlife or photography or both…
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https://photos.app.goo.gl/FKQ1LU5vWQt5CPT29
Why not? 🙂
Here is the new Cherry Street bridge as the river flows into the lake:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16kMLBgny0_dlWhAvEtG7-vtmCTDMsBxr/view?usp=drivesdk
And looking in the opposite direction, the new course of the river with the (no longer in use) Hearn generating station in the background:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HgMa9BnZt3upFQVNXHLGyNhW5fRgN67z/view?usp=drivesdk
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/File:siri.png
And here is another favorite:
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/shake_that.png
An actual sign at an old railroad station in California.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy
https://www.rom.on.ca/whats-on/exhibitions/wildlife-photographer-year-2025