Though very cold, there was not a cloud in the sky when we began our walk at Wilket Creek Park.
A highlight here is the busy birdfeeding area although there is now a seven foot pile of snow in front of it.
Many birds were about:
Park scenes:
Some botany:
This morning’s group:
Stables and a horseback riding school were established in nearby Sunnybrook Park in 1968. In May of 2018, much of it went up in smoke after someone lit fireworks too close to the barn.
As part of this morning’s walk we saw the area as it looks now. No renovation is underway.
I took some photos in the week after the fire:
A Sunnybrook group photo from happier days:
NATURE POETRY
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Miles Hearn