Sugar Beach is the newest addition to the publicly accessible shoreline of Lake Ontario in Toronto. According to the City’s promotional literature, it is a “whimsical” new park. Whatever that means.
This morning, I decided to verify how much ice there was in the freezer and I discovered -much to my surprise- that a 4.1 cm long spike had developed on one of the ice cubes. Now, there’s something that truly seems to violate the laws of gravity. Water is supposed to fall down, not up!
I like nature. No, correct that. I love nature. However, I am also very much a city boy. Living in some distant location, surrounded by nature and no access to the latest and greatest technology is not my idea of a good life. I have often said that I would like to see the wild [...]
On Tuesday, 24 August 2010, it was CP24 Day at the Canadian National Exhibition. CP24 had been broadcasting it the days before the event and since I hadn’t been there in more than a decade, I thought it was a good idea to take [...]