Our evening walk – there is a lot of beauty, one never sees, unless it is enjoyed with a dog!

The days are getting shorter:  sunsets now occur before 6pm!

The park was deserted this evening aside from a few dogs barking while playing in their dog run.

We don’t use dog runs – for some reason, my “best thinking” occurs while taking our dog for long walks and being patient during his inspection of every molecule on a blade of a grass – as well as the different scents covering the trees’ bases.

Here we are, past mid-October and the temperature is a balmy 24C (76F) – last year we had snow on the ground!

I don’t regard myself, by any stretch of the imagination, as a “real” photographer.

There is; however, an expression they use: “missing the light”. As the days grow shorter, I have discovered that there is  a narrow window of opportunity to capture images.

These are our Saturday evening pictures, while walking our dog, at the same time avoiding a (very) large racoon that meanders, totally unconcerned, along the park’s foot paths.

While walking a nearly 100 pound dog, like ours – one doesn’t want to get involved in any sort of a pulling contest!

Our Wednesday evening walk through Westmount Park.

The City has started to drain the park’s lagoon in preparation for the winter season.

Unfortunately, the resident Mallard ducks – a “fixture” in the park all summer – will, very shortly, need to find a new home.

Autumn seems to be rapidly retreating evidenced by the cold morning temperatures and earlier sunsets.

Autumn has arrived – surprisingly, this early October is still comfortably warm. Another peaceful walk, with our dog, through Westmount Park.

A beautiful, sulphur-coloured, bracket fungi (Laetiporus sulphureus) growing on an Oak in Westmount Park.  Commonly, known as the “Chicken Mushroom” in North America due to its taste. In Great Britain, reported cases of poisoning, have classified this species as inedible.