Aug 17 2022 - Walk in the Park

 

Just up the street from me is the Niagara Escarpment and it is home to the Bruce Trail.  While the Bruce Trail is listed as one of the ten top trails to walk, it is not a walk in the park.   That's something that's easy to do.  There are some famous walks in the park.  On my list are two: Central Park, New York I consider this one the most recognizable as a great urban park.  Frederick Law Olmsted is associated with it, and his landscape creations are all wonderful.  It takes about three hours to take the self-guided walking tour.   Hyde Park, London The English know how to regard their historic places.  They give them classifications and Hyde Park is a Grade 1-listed major park in Central London.  There are four Royal Parks that go from the entrance of Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park past the main entrance to Buckingham Palace. The park is divided by the Serpentine and the Long Water lakes.  The walk around Hyde Park varies given it has so many parts to it, but an outer circular walk is considered an average of 1 hour and a half.  How many parks have the name Hyde Park?  There are 25 places listed as Hyde Park.  How many Central Parks are there? The same website lists 7 places in the world named Central Park.  But that's a fabrication rather than a count as there are two Central Parks near Grimsby alone. What is Central Park's value considered to be?  Over 39 trillion US dollars.  What is the value of Hyde Park?  It is considered to be almost 19 billion pounds.  It looks like two different calculation methods here. As to the real estate with the grassy view of parks?  You can imagine that a property with a view of London's Hyde Park would be considered a "trophy asset."  That's the case for Central Park, of course. At 111 West 57th Street, NY, residents live perfected centred overlooking Central Park.   A walk in the park?  So we can take a few hours each for two great urban parks of the world.  For the Bruce Trail at 550 miles or 890 kilometres, it will take 30 days (or several years, depending on how you approach it).

Here's the Bruce Trail ntrance on 21st Street in Vineland.  Look at those Fall Maples! The signs at the left are markers for the park. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Jan 12 2020 - The Windsor Cult

Just in - this news on how to keep New Year's Resolutions!  Modify them - every day. That comes from The Beaverton - "North America's Trusted Source of News".  Really?  Who is this news source.  Here's the answer it provides: "The Beaverton is a weekly satirical news show airing Wednesdays at 10 pm on Comedy, just before Full Frontal with Sam Bee. A televised adaptation of the immensely popular website TheBeaverton.com, it files fictional stories of the utmost importance, informed by real events, the cultural zeitgeist, and national news media. Using a “fake news” platform The Beaverton offers devastating insight and biting commentary on Canadian life, politics, and the world around us." Better than New Year's Resolutions, here's their headline on Harry and Meghan Local actress successfully deprograms member of hereditary cult LONDON – Meghan Markle, an actress best known for her role on the USA network series Suits is now adding another role to her CV: deprogrammer.  “Extracting a cult member is notoriously difficult, managing to do it after joining the cult itself is almost unheard of,” says cult expert Joanie Gorski. “This is one for the history books. Or at least several dozen podcasts.” "The Cult of Windsor, which in its current form dates back to 1917, is known for being insular and territorial. Along with documented instances of incest and the grooming of teenage brides, accusations of pedophilia have also recently been leveled against a highly placed member of the organization." There's more satire to read in the article.  Consider the invitation at the bottom of the article:  "Want to learn how to write satire as brilliant as this? We have workshops coming up in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver. Find out more."  You have to move fast as the Toronto workshop is today. I am consolidating some of my photo storage and found this picture - a delightful summer image of the condominium garden at the top of Thompson Street where we lived in Toronto.

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Autumn at the Aga Khan Park

The Aga Khan Museum and Park has been planted for an autumn show of colour.  I went to see what the display looked like.  There is a depth and height of the building on the landscape that is remarkable and is created with the reflecting infinity pools. I was looking for these reflecting pools to create magic with the orange and red leaves of the trees, and for the white building to contrast with the colours and magnify the intensity of colour. You can see the effects of the reflecting pool in the second picture. I didn't find the brilliance of colour that might have been - with the high winds of the last few weeks, there aren't many leaves on the trees.  With the multi-stemed trees, there will be many branches on the trees.  As they mature over time, the show will be something to see.