When I first started leading walks for the TDSB in 2005, I had never heard of Lambton Woods. It was recommended to me by one of the walkers that year, and I drove out to have a look. Three words come to mind: Perfect, Perfect, Perfect.

Lambton is one of the best places in Toronto to see birds in winter.

Here is how it looked on February 20, 2019:

and here is how it looked on this glorious day in June 2020:

Birds are the stars here in winter:

and I did spot some ducklings this morning:

but it is the wildflowers and other botany which captured my attention in June:

NATURE POETRY

Our seasons have no fixed returns,
Without our will they come and go;
At noon our sudden summer burns,
Ere sunset all is snow.                         – James Russell Lowell (1819–91)

Miles Hearn