Chipmunks eat everything

Photo by Barry Wallace

Chipmunks are omnivores and eat everything from grass to nuts, fungi to worms, seeds and insects, to frogs and fruit.   This one in the backyard today seemed to be checking out the barrel containing young strawberry plants.   It will have to patient as the plants have only just started to sprout.   Here's hoping it doesn't start eating the leaves before the blossoms appear.

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Barry Wallace

The gates of King

Photo by Barry Wallace

I've pictured this gateway in this space a couple of times over the past few years and commented about its artistic statement.   Right now, the lily has been gilded with the addition of two huge planters evoking thoughts of spring.   I would not presume to call this the grandest gate in King but it would certainly make the short list.   It is located on the west side of Weston Road, between Churchill Avenue and the 18th Sideroad.

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GO Train parking finds divine solution

Photos by Barry Wallace

Parking for Go Train riders in King City continues to be a frustration, despite constant expansion of available spaces.   The latest partial solution is to occupy unused spots in the King City United Church parking lot on Elizabeth Grove, just east of the firehall.   When the photos shown here were taken on Friday morning, May 3,  just three vehicles were taking advantage of the new arrangement.  However, with the growth in local housing and increased GO Train ridership, it's probably just a matter of time before the parking lot is full to overflowing.   For the church, this may be a case of better the devil you know than the devil you don't.

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Barry Wallace

Fifteenth Sideroad

Photo by Barry Wallace

The Old Manse

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Barry Wallace

Anas platyrhynchos in King

Photo by BarrytheBirder

Let there be ... on every pond ... a Mallard duck

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May Day in the Marsh

Photo by Barry Wallace

Keele Street ~ Ansnorveldt

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Plumbing supplies!! Are you kidding?

Photos by Barry Wallace

I casually asked someone this week if they knew what the former Chinese food restaurant, on the King Road in the middle of King City, was going to be when renovations

were complete and it re-opened.   My friend

replied that it was going to be a plumbing supplies store.   I gasped: "you're kidding?".

My friend was not kidding and we had a spirited discussion about the wisdom of such an undertaking.   We agreed the store seemed too small and that there was too little parking, plus it should be a chic retail store of some sort, or a speciality restaurant with Vietnamese food.....yeah, Vietnamese food!      With the hopes of so many villagers hanging on the revitalization of King City's business core and attractive retail development, a plumbing supply store seems a bit of a disappointment.   Maybe the plumbing info is a ruse and there is something chic in the works.   Oh well, we shall see what we shall see.

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Barry Wallace