My nose is froze

[chickenfeet]

It's a cold, wet long weekend Sunday in the Tdot. I biked out to the end of the Leslie Street Spit in a steady drizzle and despite being frozen I got a few pictures.

I like the spit. It's a funny place. It's a long spit of land providing shelter to the harbour. There is a long term plan for the area whereby fill from construction sites in the city is dumped there to create artificial wetland habitat so it's a strange mix of rubbish dump and nature reserve. On a day like today when land, lake and sky merge into a birdsong filled greyness it really feels like somewhere like Minsmere but with a great city in the background.

Artificial pond

ponds051808, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.

Goose

goose051808, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.

Swans

swans051808, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.

Ducks and Beaver Lodge

ducks051808, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.

More Evidence of Beaver

stump051808, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.

The Spit's Scruffy Lighthouse

lighthouse051808, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.

A Very Grey Toronto

skyline051808, originally uploaded by jgilks@rogers.com.

Beware! There are clowns lurking in the mirk.

Comments

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I have never yet seen evidence of a beaver at Minsmere. The reeds-against-grey-water is familiar, though.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

You have never heard the locals tell of the dreaded Phantom Beaver of Minsmere?

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I think it turned out to be a bittern with a sore throat.