mattelderca
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We always said Ber_mun_zy.
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EVCco
Senior Member
Good to know I was pronouncing at least one street right..
For years after I moved here I would pronounce Ossington with an "S" instead of a "Z" sound
I'd call Strachan Ave. "Strackan", Trethewey "Trethway", and I still, from time to time say "Queen's Kway"
For years after I moved here I would pronounce Ossington with an "S" instead of a "Z" sound
I'd call Strachan Ave. "Strackan", Trethewey "Trethway", and I still, from time to time say "Queen's Kway"
EVCco
Senior Member
Cliffcrest Creeks - where the streams have no names
Talk of the Scarborough Bluffs from last week's trip got me hankering to get back that way. Looking at a map of the area I notice two small, unmarked streams at Cudia Park emptying into Lake Ontario in the Cliffcrest neighbourhhod. So I head out to see what they're all about - starting with the western one near Fernwood Heights:
I can see why the first one is unnamed - its barely there! So I head east to see if the other one is any bigger..:
...Bigger or not, I can see that its in a much deeper, and much steeper valley than the last one. Nevertheless, I slowly make my way down to the bottom (conveniently forgetting that I'd eventually have to climb back out again):
Well, the streams themselves may not be much to look at - but the views are fantastic:
From the unnamed streams I head east to a waterway associated with an abundance of names - the Bellamy Ravine Creek in Gates Gully by the Doris McCarthy Trail at Sylvan Park. And if those aren't enough appellations for you, the Province would also like to inform you that the surrounding area has also been known as Springbank and Fool's Paradise:
If I thought the Mimico was easy to walk through, the Bellamy is a veritable stone staircase for the majority of its length:
I head north now, up Bellamy Road, to another unmarked stream beginning just above Nelson Street, near Porchester Drive:
North of Banmoor Boulevard things start looking a little familiar, and I find myself back in Cedarbrook Park where I was following the West Highland Creek about a month ago:
I turn east now and end my journey at Markham Road:
Talk of the Scarborough Bluffs from last week's trip got me hankering to get back that way. Looking at a map of the area I notice two small, unmarked streams at Cudia Park emptying into Lake Ontario in the Cliffcrest neighbourhhod. So I head out to see what they're all about - starting with the western one near Fernwood Heights:
I can see why the first one is unnamed - its barely there! So I head east to see if the other one is any bigger..:
...Bigger or not, I can see that its in a much deeper, and much steeper valley than the last one. Nevertheless, I slowly make my way down to the bottom (conveniently forgetting that I'd eventually have to climb back out again):
Well, the streams themselves may not be much to look at - but the views are fantastic:
From the unnamed streams I head east to a waterway associated with an abundance of names - the Bellamy Ravine Creek in Gates Gully by the Doris McCarthy Trail at Sylvan Park. And if those aren't enough appellations for you, the Province would also like to inform you that the surrounding area has also been known as Springbank and Fool's Paradise:
If I thought the Mimico was easy to walk through, the Bellamy is a veritable stone staircase for the majority of its length:
I head north now, up Bellamy Road, to another unmarked stream beginning just above Nelson Street, near Porchester Drive:
North of Banmoor Boulevard things start looking a little familiar, and I find myself back in Cedarbrook Park where I was following the West Highland Creek about a month ago:
I turn east now and end my journey at Markham Road:
r937
Active Member
wow, that bike carcass under water is a great photo
thanks for the great tour
thanks for the great tour
EVCco
Senior Member
Thank you
BTW, for anyone interested in what some of these creeks look like when they head underground, check out this guy's work:
http://www.jonmuldoon.ca/galleries/draingal/index.html
http://www.jonmuldoon.ca/galleries/sewergal/index.html
Some incredible shots
BTW, for anyone interested in what some of these creeks look like when they head underground, check out this guy's work:
http://www.jonmuldoon.ca/galleries/draingal/index.html
http://www.jonmuldoon.ca/galleries/sewergal/index.html
Some incredible shots
You certainly have to make sure there isn't a chance of rain when doing that.
EVCco
Senior Member
You'd definitely want to bring along a nose plug for the combined sewers too...
RichA
Banned
Toronto's idea of "naturalization"
-Paving dirt paths in forests and in the Don Valley. So the people who can afford the million $ homes on the river valley won't get their $300 shoes muddy.
-Light the paths, so animal's circadian rythms are completely screwed-up.
-Build fast-food restaurants and "activity centres" in nature areas so urbanites won't feel too out of their element.
-forbidding activities that people established in natural areas long ago, like mountain biking and rock climbing on the premise it "damages" things while permitting their ilk to ride 1200lb horses in the same areas.
-Tearing down, buldozing anything that resembles an historical ruin. Then selliing the land cheap to buddies at outfits like Cadillac Fairview.
-Paving dirt paths in forests and in the Don Valley. So the people who can afford the million $ homes on the river valley won't get their $300 shoes muddy.
-Light the paths, so animal's circadian rythms are completely screwed-up.
-Build fast-food restaurants and "activity centres" in nature areas so urbanites won't feel too out of their element.
-forbidding activities that people established in natural areas long ago, like mountain biking and rock climbing on the premise it "damages" things while permitting their ilk to ride 1200lb horses in the same areas.
-Tearing down, buldozing anything that resembles an historical ruin. Then selliing the land cheap to buddies at outfits like Cadillac Fairview.
DSC
Superstar
Some of 'our' photographers may want to look into this current City tender call?
Commodity: Professional Services, Service Providers
Description: For: Photography of Natural Parklands in Toronto
The purpose of this request for proposal (RFP) is to contract a professional landscape photographer to create a collection of photographs that document, interpret and celebrate natural parkland areas in the City of Toronto during 2012 and 2013 for the City's City Planning Division.
Issue date: February 9, 2012 Closing date: February 24, 2012
at 12:00 Noon
Go to: https://wx.toronto.ca/inter/pmmd/calls.nsf/professional?OpenView
Commodity: Professional Services, Service Providers
Description: For: Photography of Natural Parklands in Toronto
The purpose of this request for proposal (RFP) is to contract a professional landscape photographer to create a collection of photographs that document, interpret and celebrate natural parkland areas in the City of Toronto during 2012 and 2013 for the City's City Planning Division.
Issue date: February 9, 2012 Closing date: February 24, 2012
at 12:00 Noon
Go to: https://wx.toronto.ca/inter/pmmd/calls.nsf/professional?OpenView
r937
Active Member
EVCco
Senior Member
Heh. Even if I was "a professional landscape photographer," years ago I had a job doing nothing but writing proposals for government RFPs, after which I vowed never to look at another RFP again...
...it is interesting, though, how much construction equipment you come across in the middle of the woods lately.
...it is interesting, though, how much construction equipment you come across in the middle of the woods lately.
EVCco
Senior Member
West Don River - tri-borough trek, part 1
Today I embark on a journey which takes me through not one, not two, but three of the former Metro municipalities - starting at the very heart of East York, the forks of the Don:
From there I head north through E.T. Seton Park:
Under the towering Overlea overpass where the river straddles the boundary between East York and North York:
At the upper reaches of Seton Park I approach the massive CP Rail bridge:
Past Eglinton Avenue and into Wilket Creek Park:
Further northwest into Serena Gundy Park:
I travel but a few steps north into Sunnybrook Park before doubling back at the Don Riding Stables bridge and striking out due-west down a new riverway:
to be continued...
Now!
Today I embark on a journey which takes me through not one, not two, but three of the former Metro municipalities - starting at the very heart of East York, the forks of the Don:
From there I head north through E.T. Seton Park:
Under the towering Overlea overpass where the river straddles the boundary between East York and North York:
At the upper reaches of Seton Park I approach the massive CP Rail bridge:
Past Eglinton Avenue and into Wilket Creek Park:
Further northwest into Serena Gundy Park:
I travel but a few steps north into Sunnybrook Park before doubling back at the Don Riding Stables bridge and striking out due-west down a new riverway:
to be continued...
Now!
EVCco
Senior Member
Burke Brook - tri-borough trek, part 2
At the western edge of Sunnybrook Park the West Don meets the Burke Brook (not to be confused with turn-of-the-millennium pseudo-celebrity Brooke Burke):
Across Bayview Avenue and into Sunnydene Park:
As Sunnydene merges into Sherwood Park, the Burke leaves North York and heads underground, beneath Mount Hope Cemetery, only to re-emerge in the old City of Toronto - our third borough - at the other end of the park:
North, under Blythwood Road, and into the Blythwood Ravine:
West, under Mount Pleasant Road, and still in the Blythwood Ravine:
The brook heads back underground for a few blocks - underground, beneath such things as the Alexander Muir Memorial:
The Burke Brook re-surfaces just west of Duplex Ave in the Chatsworth Ravine, then quickly culminates (that is, goes back underground for good) at Otter Creek Centre:
Finally, returning to the subject of finding "odd edibles" from a few posts back, as if to reward my long tri-borough trek I find submerged at the very end of the creek a full, un-oppened can of beer:
...a little worse for wear, no doubt. But at least I knew it would be cold!
Did I drink it?
I'll leave that up to your imaginations...
At the western edge of Sunnybrook Park the West Don meets the Burke Brook (not to be confused with turn-of-the-millennium pseudo-celebrity Brooke Burke):
Across Bayview Avenue and into Sunnydene Park:
As Sunnydene merges into Sherwood Park, the Burke leaves North York and heads underground, beneath Mount Hope Cemetery, only to re-emerge in the old City of Toronto - our third borough - at the other end of the park:
North, under Blythwood Road, and into the Blythwood Ravine:
West, under Mount Pleasant Road, and still in the Blythwood Ravine:
The brook heads back underground for a few blocks - underground, beneath such things as the Alexander Muir Memorial:
The Burke Brook re-surfaces just west of Duplex Ave in the Chatsworth Ravine, then quickly culminates (that is, goes back underground for good) at Otter Creek Centre:
Finally, returning to the subject of finding "odd edibles" from a few posts back, as if to reward my long tri-borough trek I find submerged at the very end of the creek a full, un-oppened can of beer:
...a little worse for wear, no doubt. But at least I knew it would be cold!
Did I drink it?
I'll leave that up to your imaginations...
r937
Active Member
fantastic, EVCco, what a monstrously large hike, i'm guessing at least five or six hours, because i've been up and down that entire stretch myself although never all in the same day!!
going up the west don river on the east side is actually pretty easy, the west side is a lot more challenging, and a better representative of "urban wilderness"
the chain basket you showed under the hiscott bridge is the target for hole #6 on the 18-hole frisbee golf course laid in last summer in e.t.seton, which i play often (e.g. http://rudy.ca/frisbee-golf-in-the-snow.html -- similar "horse and rider only" photo)
going up the west don river on the east side is actually pretty easy, the west side is a lot more challenging, and a better representative of "urban wilderness"
the chain basket you showed under the hiscott bridge is the target for hole #6 on the 18-hole frisbee golf course laid in last summer in e.t.seton, which i play often (e.g. http://rudy.ca/frisbee-golf-in-the-snow.html -- similar "horse and rider only" photo)
Lone Primate
Active Member
Imagine some douche tagging a memorial like that one to Alexander Muir. Mail boxes and factory walls aren't good enough for these talentless cries for attention? Seriously, those people should be tied to a tree every day for a month for eight hours for people to bring their dogs by to piss on. I think they'd quickly get the idea that there's not much difference in what they're doing.
Some guy asks you to do a mural? Different story. Mind you, the second the paint's dry, some artless, no-talent "tagger" will come along...
Some guy asks you to do a mural? Different story. Mind you, the second the paint's dry, some artless, no-talent "tagger" will come along...