Loving the suggestions here! There's also a good, fun book called How to be an Explorer of the World (Perigree/Penguin, 2008). It's by Keri Smith of Wreck This Journal fame. Its exercises could be a great add-on to mapping + orienteering activities.

Albino milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), encountered in a Toronto park.

Francis Fukuyama's Liberalism and its Discontents (2022), a must read for anyone struggling to comprehend the current crisis, is on sale at Book City! It underscores why democracy-oriented folks on left + right need to get over ideological fixations + how to work together against authoritarians.

Somewhere, in a parallel universe (or maybe just Japan) trains follow some sort of schedule. @viarailcanada.bsky.social

Cold night; warm heart: the Skydiggers at Danforth Music Hall last night.

On a Humber River walk yesterday, we saw this unusual formation in the ice. It looks like a convergent plate boundary, with uplift between the plates. Rapid freeze-up, wide + shallow river. Could it just be downstream pressure from water flowing over the fish ladder upstream? #hydrogeomorphology

Behold: a public park washroom actually open in Toronto in the winter! It was clean and there was warm water. 10/10 would pee here again.