With Brian as our guide, Terry, Carmen and I ventured off to a day of adventures in Collingwood, about 2hrs North of Toronto.
Meeting bright and early, we made good progress in Brian’s modified Jeep Cherokee.
There was fresh snow the night before and the jeep feels extremely stable in the snow.
Off-roading in some small back roads. At one point we ran over a patch of ice and the jeep was sliding back down!
This is Doug, the owner of
Rob Roy Farm.
At the farm they have dog sledding programs in the winter. The beautiful dogs sleeps outside in their own kennel.
A barn used for storage in the winter. Some really cool collection of stuff accumulated over the years.
We were very fortunate there was fresh snow and Doug happen to setup the teams for training so we stayed for some dog sledding!
Even though it is a pretty short track, it is amazing how much power the dogs can muster.
And we get to feed donkeys too!
The Lowe’s Toronto Christmas Market is in its 2nd year running, featuring a 40-foot Christmas tree decorated with over 18,000 lights, a Ferris wheel, reindeer petting zoo, speciality beer, and outdoor fire pits.
The festival celebrates the romance and magic in the form of a traditional European Christmas market.
Carmen and I took the streetcar over after work to the Distillery Historic District.
Local artisan shops – a good opportunity to buy some unique gifts but the goods are also a bit more expensive.
Family selling some maple taffy cones, it was pretty good!
Merry Christmas, I hope you take some time to enjoy the season rather than stressing about finding parking and shopping for gifts!
The market runs from Dec 2nd to Dec 18th, I would encourage you to go check it out!
Posted on December 15th, 2011 at 11:12 pm and is filed under
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Toronto
With daylight saving in place, it is already getting dark by 4:30pm.
Each day till winter solstice we lose about 2 minutes of daylight. Not leaving much time for casual photo-taking.
The remnant of an
accident near work. Another reminder for biker/skateboarder/pedestrian to pay more attention in the dim conditions.
Winter is here, it snowed a week ago and frost covers everything in the early morning.
It’s been a wet and cloudy Fall season. Taking some snapshots from the lunch hour stroll.
This seemed like a bad idea. The driver reversing the crane into this spot was very brave!
Walking home, saw this full-length mirror on the side of the road.
