Slow cooker

As Brenna and I departed for Toronto yesterday afternoon, a heavy mist decended. It provided an interesting atmosphere for photography. The dampness was cool and refreshing. The first three images were taken in the countryside between Guelph and Campbellville.




sweetpeas


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Arriving in Toronto we stopped at the western beach for a walk and some pizza. As an emerging sun slowly evaporated the mist, it turned the day into a regular Ontario pressure cooker.





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We met Monique, who took Brenna shopping on Queen Street for craft supplies. Meanwhile I went to a doctor's appointment. By the time I had finished, the heat was oppressive. A teenage girl had fainted on the stairs down to the subway.

Rockwood

This afternoon Brenna and I went to Rockwood Conservation Area, a peculiar little park full of glacial potholes. Its limestone cliffs are nowhere near as magnificent or wild as the granite precipice Marian and I explored in Algonquin Park last week, but beautiful in their own way. Rockwood is barely a 15 minute drive from where I live. In many ways I do not miss owning a car, but I do long for a time when I can make excursions like this anytime I want.




Adiantum pedatum, maidenhair fern





Brenna and I swam in the lake and explored the potholes. Then she swam some more while I spent a few minutes with Hairy Potter and the Goblet of Fire, which I started reading for the first time last night. I have already finished books 2 and 3 this month.