Saw this the other day through the haze, past Snake and Simcoe Islands, a mirage of Main Duck Island and the False Ducks...or perhaps Yorkshire Island, Canadian islands way out in eastern Lake Ontario usually a thin line right on the horizon on the clearest days. Click for big-o-viz.

Mini-putt by City Hall  •  On the upside, there are always ribs and my lunch on Saturday was a share of a side and a pull pork sanny on the lawn in front of work.  •  I am still a little unsure about the morality of the Titanic kiddy slide having passed the graves of the dead in north-end Halifax …

John of Argghhh! linked to my photo of Fort Henry below and he has struck me to the core - I have been remiss in my feeding of his fort photo needs. Fortunately, last weekend, I took a bunch of views of Fort Henry and the Royal Military College from the Wolf Island ferry as we returned from one of …

View from the Wolfe Islander III. Click.

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From the trip home on the Wolfe Islander III on Sunday evening. Click it.

Folks fret about the denatured urban landscape but we are pretty lucky around these parts. In our little corner of where Lake Ontario pours into the St. Lawrence I've seen a stone's throw (not that I tried) from the shore, other than the crows, mallards and ring-bill gulls, kingfishers, mergansers …

I just took these images from the roof of our building looking east to the other side of the City. I have not been able to find any local news service this Sunday evening to find out what is going on. I would estimate the fire to be at least 5 km away so it is pretty big.  •  Update: it was the …