White Rhino, Toronto Zoo

White Rhino, Toronto Zoo

More Northern lights, North Dakota, 1999

Northern lights, North Dakota, August, 1999

Grizzly bear, Toronto Zoo

Grizzly bear eating apples and carrots, Toronto Zoo

Bison on Road

Bison (buffalo) on road, farm

Spring rolls, Arisu restaurant, Toronto

Spring rolls at Arisu Restaurant, Bloor Street, Toronto

Sugar Baby watermelon ripeness test

This is the first sugar baby I harvested - the tendril was withered, the bottom spot has turned from white to cream. I didn't know when the tendril had withered - a suggestion I've read was that you should harvest 7 to 10 days after it withers, so I was just testing here. I guess the tendril withers in the wild ancestor of the watermelon to let the ripe fruit fall. The tendril on these plants that you check is the one that grows next to the stem that connects the watermelon to the vine. Now I'll mark the watermelons that have withered tendrils and wait longer to harvest. It also said that it should be harvested before the stem itself starts to wither. The melons don't follow a schedule - the oldest and biggest one still has an unwithered tendril.

Withered tendril

6 inches, 15cm, 4.6 pounds, 2 kg

White spot on bottom turned to creamy color

before cutting - the stripes for this type should be about the same color as the rest of the melon

Cut - flesh still white but turning pink, seeds white. Flesh is actually sweet and edible, so not a loss! 

Fuzz Waxbar

Money Can't Buy Love, But It Can Buy You a Bikini Wax

Little boy splashing in pond, Nathan Phillips Square

In the middle of a huge city, one carefree boy!

Green roof, Toronto City Hall

Toronto City economic development officer Chris Rickett shows off new 'Green Roof' at City Hall. Green roofs are required for many new structures in the city. They are plant beds that absorb rain water and reduce the amount of runoff going into sewers, reduce heat, and have flowers that help feed insects like butterflies, like the ones seen below at a butterfly garden nearby at Harbourfront:

Monarch Butterfly feeds on Blazing Star plants

Red River Hogs

Red River Hog, Potamochoerus porcus, at Toronto Zoo. Known as Pinselohrschwein (Brush Ear Pigs) in German because of the long tuft of hair on the tip of their ears.

Honest Ed's, Toronto

 Famous bargain store on Bloor - Ed Mirvish, the late owner, also produced many musicals and other shows and the store has tons of publicity photos and posters on the walls. 

Easter Donut

Tim Horton's, 2014

Justin Bieber's Girlfriend fragrance

You too can smell like you dated Justin Bieber!

Adam Goren

New scan of photo, Adam Goren, of Atom and His Package, in Guelph, April 29, 1999

He made jokes about the Star Wars curtains.

At someone's house in Guelph, Ontario, April 29, 1999.

Doggy Style Entrance

It's a pet grooming salon!

1938 Plymouth 5 window coupe

1938 Plymouth 5 window coupe

Dapple Dachshund

Dachshund, dapple, in Ottawa

Passenger Pigeon

Passenger Pigeon, taxidermy, Vistor Centre, Point Pelee National Park - totally extinct now due to industrial scale hunting, these used to darken the sky in North America with a flock of more than 3 billion birds reported in Ontario in 1866.