at rosetta mcclain gardens in early fall - 2010

the remnants of summer
i must apologize, but i'm not so familiar with the names of a lot of flowers. so rather than guess, if i don't know what the flower is called, i will just leave the frame blank. if you happen by here and you know the name of any of the flowers here, i'd appreciate your leaving a message. you see, i've been wanting all summer long to come to rosetta mcclain gardens to take pictures of the lovely summer flowers, but my weekends have been so busy taking care of two very impressionable grandsons. today is the only free time i had and i know i am too late for the flowers. most of the flowers are at the last stage of their seasonal life but they are still magnificently beautiful. enjoy browsing through the photographs.

cosmos

dahlia

yellow canna

fuschia

peach chrysantemums

white chrysantemums

purple chrysantemums

yellow chrisantemums

purple angel's trumpet

blue angel's trumpet

purple climatis

a trip to rosetta mcclain gardens

looking in from the entrance

looking back at the entrance

purple and yellow mums

hanging plants

the trees are starting to show their fall colours

the waters of lake ontario

a sailboat on a cloudy, yet beautiful fall day on lake ontario

the inner garden grounds

"and the leaves that are green, turn to brown" (from simon & garfunkel)

"and they wither with the wind..."

a walk in the park

where are the "old friends"?

three evergreens

the falling leaves....

a garden of waxed begonias, in beautiful colours

just like in a dream...

close up of the evergreen

the "rock of moses"?

close up of a pine needle

the autumn leaves of green and gold

and soon, even the new ones become none.

i walked for the cure - 2010

sunday, october 3, 2010 - for the seventh year in a row, my sister and i ran and walked for the cure. this post is dedicated to those who suffered from breast cancer, their families and friends. may we beat this disease and that our daughters and their daughters may someday not know that breast cancer ever existed.
my running/waking gears: official run-for-the-cure t-shirt; cap with the pink ribbon logo, and pink scarf

the people i run and walk for every year, with the hope that the number stops at 4

a banner on the light standard on Queen's Park Crescent

raring to go

going east towards Queen's Park Crescent

two pretty ladies posing for posterity

the sign on the QP Crescent's bridge, the walkers at Hart House Circle

detail on a building on the Whitney Block

a statue on Queen's Park garden

walking south on QP Crescent to University Avenue

cheerers on the University Avenue route

taking a photograph of the photographer

cheerers on University Ave.

the rest of the pack on the east side of University Avenue

on University Avenue, west side, going towards Queen's Park Crescent

circling back north on Queen's Park Crescent

the provincial legislature (methinks?)

this tree is much more attractive in reality (i think it's time to buy a new digicam!)

passing by the 2km mark - yay! (i forgot to take a picture of the 1km mark oooops!)

these cheerers were pretending to play "i'm too sexy" playing from the CHFI's booth

the 3km mark at bloor street

another 3km reminder

part of the Royal Ontario Museum

pink cheerers on Bloor St.

on bloor street

cheerers on Bloor Street

more cheerers on Bloor Street

passing by the Varsity Centre

passing by the Varsity Centre; the CN tower in the background

a sign approaching the St. George turn

the walk along bloor street after the 3km

passing by the Bata shoe museum

through the u-of-t campus

the cheerers just before we reached the 4km mark....and that's when my camera's batteries died on me. and the view, trust me, from hereon was beautiful!!