Had to set the alarm to get myself up to do this; Saturday mornings are typically lie-ins for me. This walk had already been postponed once (last weekend), and the forecast for today called for rain. Not to mention there’s a transit strike on right now, so anyone who didn’t have a car or didn’t live nearby wouldn’t be able to come — it seemed like the walk was jinxed. But I figured I would go unless it was pouring outside, because I wanted to be outdoors this weekend.
The sky was looking pretty tame through the skylight (a little overcast but far from rainstormy), so I stopped snoozing the alarm and got myself cleaned up and motoring to Davisville Subway Station, the meeting point. There were 10 of us in total, a group of mostly locals who either lived nearby or biked over; only a couple of us had to drive.
We started off at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, a huge property on the other side of Yonge Street where I used to live for my first three months in Toronto. During that time I thought about visiting to take photographs, but I think it was too painful for me at the time. I did make an outing of it once when I was living beside the Rogers Centre, in February last year. I made a mental note to return by myself, because everyone was walking rather quickly and I was lagging behind so much I had to speedwalk to catch up again.
Other people had cameras, but I took the most photos other than Hanson (Hansen?), who is also interested in photography and was snapping away at the back of the group. We discussed camera equipment at great length while we walked, which would likely bore the others to tears, so it was just as well we were bringing up the rear!
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