--- chuty001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Growing up in rural Ontario there was not a whole > lot to do in winter but go > skating on the rivers and ponds. This song pretty > much sums up how I feel > every year about this time. >
My daughter and I went down to the lake (Ontario) today. There's an amazing park and fish/bird/butterfly habitat at Humber Bay if you go straight down Park Lawn to the lake. We go there often, any time of year. It's only about a five minute drive (OK, maybe ten mintues) from our house and is a wonderful piece of country in the middle of the city. You can walk down on the beach, or ramble out along a spit they've made, which is full of wildflowers and plants of all kinds in summer and fall. Sometimes you can go there when it's hot and sultry outside and, if you walk right out to the end of the spit, you can stand on these huge rocks and catch a breeze. One day in summer we went there when there was a crazy wind blowing and huge waves crashing onto the rocks and we stood on the rocks and shrieked into the wind. There are some ponds they've built as fish habitats and there are tons of birds, including swans, in summer. Today when we got down there, the ponds were frozen and people were skating and playing hockey on them. (The hockey players were all speaking Russian.) I guess I hadn't realized just how cold it has been in the last few weeks, because my brain would simply not accept the fact that not only was the water frozen, but it was frozen hard enough for people to skate on it. Now where the hell did I stash my skates? ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
