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Top of Cathedral Bluffs: February 2021

The highest point of the Scarborough Bluffs is called, appropriately, Cathedral Bluffs.

Here are some photos from last year, taken from below:

On this windy, cold, but sunny 2021 day I had a good look at the park above:

Some botany:

Dog-strangling Vine (Vincetoxicum rossicum)
Fragrant Sumac (Rhus aromatica)
Manitoba Maple (Acer negundo)
Manitoba Maple (Acer negundo)
Northern Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa)
White Ash (Fraxinus americana)
Autumn-olive (Elaeagnus umbellata)
Hawthorn (Crataegus)
White Birch (Betula papyrifera)
Linden (Tila cordata
Red-cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)
Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)
Linden (Tila cordata)

NATURE POETRY

There, on the black bough of a snow-flecked maple,
Fearless and gay as our love,
A bluejay cocked his crest!
Oh, who can tell the range of joy
Or set the bounds of beauty?    – Sara Teasdale (1884–1933)

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