Falling into Autumn
To state the obvious, autumn is the best season. The crisp mornings, the changing leaves, the perfect weather for warm jumpers and hot chocolate. And there aren’t any annoying insects to spoil the fun. Last autumn we saw the incredible colours in Algonquin Park . This year, of course, our opportunities for travel are more limited, but pandemic season has helped us look closer to home, and we’ve discovered amazing natural beauty within walking distance of our condo. Toronto, it turns out, is quite spectacular. We’ve been helped in our wanderings by Active TO – an initiative led by the Mayor of Toronto to close major roads beside the city’s beauty spots, and keep them exclusively for walkers, joggers, cyclists and the occasional skater. This allows social distancing on the city’s vast bikeway network. For instance, we’ve enjoyed walking beside Lake Ontario on the Waterfront Trail, a route that winds its way along the Canadian shores of the Great Lakes (some 3600km in all). Its parks and