Well, the younger sister was not to be outdone by Michelle and Adam.

Jennifer and Steve heralded the arrival of Liam Hunter Wright on Tuesday August 28.


This is Liam getting ready to come home.


This is him up close and personal.


And daddy gets to hold his new son.

Mother and son are well, and there may be a somewhat jealous dog in the Wright household for a short time.

Congrats to both families.

Yup..............it finally happened.

After a few false starts, little Lucy was born about 8:30 a.m. on Fri. August 10.

Mummy and Daddy are doing fine, but probably will not get much sleep from here on end.




A close up for those who were unable to visit personally.




Grandma remembers how to do this.



As I post this blog, I see that Adam and Michelle and the Bug are home now.

This is the famous City Hall Loop.

When the TTC took over the transportation, from The Toronto Railway Company (in 1921) it set about connecting the Dundas East tracks with the Dundas West tracks. Tracks were built over the bridge across the Don River to Broadview, and over the gap between Victoria and Bay streets, but no through service was established.

In the west, Dundas cars operated from a loop at Runnymede Road, along Dundas Street, to Elizabeth, looping via Elizabeth, Louisa, James and Albert Streets.

When the massive new Eaton Centre development started construction in the early 1970s, the TTC stopped operation to City Hall Loop on a 'temporary' basis. The TTC claimed that the loop would reopen, providing direct streetcar service to the doors of the Eaton Centre, but that never materialized. The City Hall Loop operations moved east on January 6, 1975 to an on-street arrangement of Church, Queen and Victoria. This branch of the streetcar line faded to a rush-hour only operation, and then disappeared altogether on June 20, 1986.

My friend, Kinga was visiting the Bruce Peninsula on the weekend, and took a few gorgeous pictures of the wild orchids that she found growing there....

Dragonboat Races

Here we have  part of the mega line up for the ferry to the Toronto Islands.




This is one of three ferries that traverse the inner harbour.



Nice view of the City.


The competitors are paddling in the lagoon.

Looks like the race is on.....