….ducks, geese, swans and more around the pond in Col. Sam Smith Park
Monthly Archives: May 2020
New Flower (May 26, 2020) – Tulip Edged in Red
My Messy Journal 30 Day Challenge
….30 days to fill an entire art journal with messy pages
I know it sounds a bit strange but the challenge came from Kara Kramer, one of Carla Sonheim’s guest artists from her year long class called 2020: Words and Pictures. The idea is to be loose and free and fill the book and then come back later and using prompts add more to the pages. I’m still in the filling the book stage. Here are some of the pages of the 42 that I’ve done so far.
58 pages to go!!!!
New Flower (May 25, 2020) – Pink Blossoms
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Sunday Trees – 445
…thanks to Becca Givens for hosting Sunday Trees
Silent Sunday – May 24, 2020
New Flower (May 24, 2020) – Pink and White Tulip
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Among the Rocks
…Col. Sam Smith Park is mostly made from landfill
This beautiful naturalized park in Toronto (south Etobicoke) is a gem in the neighbourhood. I remember years ago in the 1980s when dump trucks were lined up to unload their bins of landfill into Lake Ontario to expand the park. As a result an artificial harbour (now home to the Lakeshore Yacht Club) was created. It is skirted by grasslands punctuated by trees and set within the rocky shoreline. The lake-fill area also contains a wetlands habitat with wildlife-viewing platforms, while elsewhere among the tree-lined paths and lawns are playgrounds, pavilions, and a sport field.
This is one of the parks the Trish and I go to pick up litter. When you walk along the pathways you’d think the park is pretty clean but when you walk along the rocks you can see where people have partied and where the waves have deposited waste (mostly plastic) from the belly of the lake.
Here are some shots from the surface of the rocks and then what we’ve found between them.



























