Prime autumn colour has come and gone here in Riverdale, and my Icelandic Sheepdog Skuggi and I have managed to walk into a few scenes with some of that fall magic. Here are a few from the past month from our rambles around Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourhood, including

• Withrow Park and the off-leash area
• the playing field and bush below Broadview Avenue and the swimming pool
• the trail along the banks of the lower Don River
• the off-leash area below The Riverdale Farm,
• the woods to the east of Pottery Road (Crothers Woods and Cottonwood Flats)
• and Cabbagetown.

We walk across the Riverdale footbridge over the Don River every morning.  Here is the view looking north earlier this week. Hidden from view behind the trees is the work being done – a year and a half and counting! – to install a ramp from the bridge down to the Lower Don Trail –

the view of the Don River from the Riverdale footbridge

Looking up the Don from the last set of rapids

The Don River just south of Pottery Road

the off-leash area at Withrow Park

The high trail above the East Don – Crothers Woods/Cottonwood Flats

Nov. 13 – prime colour come and gone!

A stunning sunset as we walked along Broadview Avenue above Riverdale Park East had us lingering for twenty minutes to watch the changing colours light up the western sky.

sunset view from Broadview by the Rooster Coffee House

Skuggi at dusk on Broadview hill Nov 2