This post is my last stack of photos from Saturday. I know I wrote that I wanted to spread them out all week, but I have been thinking about them all day and I had to exorcise the demon, as it were.
The story picks up where it left off yesterday, at the entrance to Tommy Thompson Park with me walking the considerable distance to its point out in Lake Ontario. One of the things I wanted to do on this walk was capture the CN Tower. It's a side of it that few people outside Toronto see.
This set includes the best city/landscape photo I've ever taken. It also contains one of the most boring photos I've taken... hopefully they balance out as an acceptable presentation.
The CN Tower as seen behind a fleet of expensive pleasure craft. I thought it neat how it looks like a mast amongst the others.
The city of Toronto and the CN Tower, as seen through the edge of the forest. It reminds me of some art I've seen where the artist painted cities reclaimed by nature. I think it would be awesome to see the CN Tower covered in vines.
A stack of logs with character.
Nature not letting the orderly stack dissuade it from performing its recycling duties.
A tropical peninsula and the Caribbean Ocean... or facing east into Lake Ontario.
Autumn grasses done in oil. Or maybe pastels? I'm not much of a painter, but at least I can sometimes recognize beauty when I see it.
Toronto of the swamp, with favorable clouds.
The CN Tower and what will forever be to me, the SkyDome.
Here we have a scene from some harbor in China, or the Port of Toronto.
I include this photo to show the clear water of Lake Ontario. It may be ridiculously polluted, but it's a clean kind of dirty.
There were many sailboats on the water, which surprised me, because the sun was obscured by clouds and it was starting to get cold out on the water. Definitely Autumn.
Unlike places with old fashioned beaches made of sand, Toronto boasts some of the finest brick and masonry beaches in the world.
Monarch porn! It was at this point that I encountered the flock of Monarch butterflies, that was, believe you me, spectacular.
This dragonfly was resting on a plant, and had the coolest wing pattern I'd seen yet. Very big and very scary eyes on his wings, that made even me look twice.
Get used to these pics, I have a feeling there will be plenty of these from my upcoming trip to the Maritimes (not to be confused with the east coast, apparently).
Another boat with buildings; I was enjoying the juxtaposition and Miami Vice feel. Although, if memory serves me correctly, they didn't use bass boats on the show.
At the point of the park, you can see the chunks of lamp posts, concrete walls and re-bar that serve as a reminder the park was built from city construction scrap. The re-bar rusts away in peace, and I couldn't help think of the Gardiner Expressway, still in use and experiencing the same rot.
Toronto with a sky that dwarfs its awesomeness.
Toronto with a sky that highlights its awesomeness.
The CN Tower, making my poor little 18-200mm lens stretch to its limit.
This snow fence won't be rolled up for long. Storm's a comin'.
On the final leg back to my apartment from the Viva bus, in the increasing rain, I saw the sign at the Three Coins was on. I had no choice but to stop and shoot it, but the rain soon had me jogging/limping back to my apartment. Twenty km walks are for young crazies, not old, out of shape crazies.
© Jeremy Buehler and Bug Noir (www.bugnoir.com), 2010.
