When I was a young teenager, I worked selling popcorn, ice cream bars etc. at the long since demolished Maple Leaf Stadium; the home of the Toronto Maple Leaf Baseball Club.
On one occasion, the Prime Minister of Canada arrived with a group and I was selected to deliver hot dogs and Honey Dews to them. Afterward, John Diefenbaker presented me with a shiny silver dollar and I have been interested in Canadian history ever since.
Today, I spent an enjoyable morning strolling about our nation’s capital.
Some botany:
NATURE POETRY
Summer, fall, winter, spring,
The seasons rotate as each brings
Its special beauty to this Earth of ours.
Winter’s snow and summer’s flowers;
Frozen rivers will flow come spring,
There is a renewal of everything. – Edna Frohock (1906–97)
Miles Hearn