[NON BLOG] Toronto the Good in Grey Winter
Mar. 3rd, 2005 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldOne thing that I've just realized that I've missed this March is a sense of nature's changes.
I have noticed the changing temperature, and the falling snow, and the barren deciduous trees. My senses do continue to work. Their problem is not that they aren't detecting what they should be detecting, but that there is not all that much to detect. I haven't seen Toronto's waterfront, such as it is, since October if you exclude my sighting of Lake Ontario while airborne; in the course of a workday, earlier in February I could easily miss the entire day between commuting and the inwards-looking nature of the Yonge-Eglinton Centre; and V.'s apartment building is located in the middle of flattened horizonless white fields, suburban sprawl, and hydro towers.
Prince Edward Island certainly has more nature, if a decidedly human-molded nature. Kingston was a larger centre, but not by much, and there was the fascinating Shield all around. I'm still fascinated by the differences. Torontonian nature, I fear, is lacking something, which is anything.
I should get out to High Park. I really should, I think, head out to the Toronto Islands. Does anyone in Toronto have any recommendations on where I can get my fix?
I have noticed the changing temperature, and the falling snow, and the barren deciduous trees. My senses do continue to work. Their problem is not that they aren't detecting what they should be detecting, but that there is not all that much to detect. I haven't seen Toronto's waterfront, such as it is, since October if you exclude my sighting of Lake Ontario while airborne; in the course of a workday, earlier in February I could easily miss the entire day between commuting and the inwards-looking nature of the Yonge-Eglinton Centre; and V.'s apartment building is located in the middle of flattened horizonless white fields, suburban sprawl, and hydro towers.
Prince Edward Island certainly has more nature, if a decidedly human-molded nature. Kingston was a larger centre, but not by much, and there was the fascinating Shield all around. I'm still fascinated by the differences. Torontonian nature, I fear, is lacking something, which is anything.
I should get out to High Park. I really should, I think, head out to the Toronto Islands. Does anyone in Toronto have any recommendations on where I can get my fix?
