places to take photos in Toronto

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:37:29 -0400, "f/256"
wrote:

You'd have to drive at a speed of 180 mph or so to find places with
significative color change an hour away from Toronto. I just came back from
Algonquin Park and even there peak colors are a week or so away, no real
changes in the Toronto area. As far as the McDonalds thing, you'd have to
drive past the continental divide for that kind of pollution not to be part
of the landscape )


It is changing very quickly. I am on Georgian Bay and the last couple
of nights with the cold and full moon (although, I don't think the
moon has anything to do with it) the trees have started changing very
rapidly. The maples are going red, by this weekend it will be
beautiful.

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:43:23 GMT, Jordan Wosnick
wrote:

The Wogster wrote:

Naw, go North, actually the only thing you will find today on the 401
is frustrated drivers, paint truck vs garbage truck, at 3:30 this
morning, had the whole thing blocked off all morning.....

Yup, and the paint truck apparently met its fate in a giant
fireball. In any case, the colours haven't really started
changing here and you'd be hard-pressed to find rich colours
within an hour of Toronto at the moment. That said, the nights
have been getting quite cold, so the change may not be far off...

I hear that Algonquin should be 50/50 this weekend, more then an hour,
but it's a nice drive, a good way to go is North on the 400, then up
Hwy 11 to Huntsville, head over to Algonquin go right through the
park, Head down from Whitney, down to Hwy 62 through Maynooth,
Bancroft along 28 to Peterborough, then down the 115, and back along
the 401. Make as many stops as you like along the way. Colours
should be good along the way. Expect the circuit to take about a day
and a half.

I have heard that cold causing the leaves to change, is a myth, it's
actually the fact that lower amounts of daylight mean less energy for
the tree, so it drops it's leaves, the sap goes down into the roots,
and the tree effectively goes into hibernation. In the spring more
light, causes the tree to send sap back up into the trunk, and it
produces new leaves.

W