Abandoned house on old Bathurst Street

                                                                                                                 Photo by Barry Wallace

Former glory reduced to just plain spooky

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Wild Things Petting Farm

 Photos by Barry Wallace

These photos have nothing to do with King Township.   They were taken on the east side of York Region, on the Markham/Pickering townline.   But the baby goats were so cute, I had to include them in this space.   Linda and I took two of our young grandsons to the Wild Things Petting Farm for a couple of hours this past Sunday afternoon and had a very interesting time at this eccentric and odoriferous, but charming place.   Hundreds of farm creatures all run free here.   There were approximately 15 baby goats in the rustic menagerie, including a set of black and white triplets pictured here.   With three babies to feed and two teats, the mother goat was hard-pressed to make sure all three got enough nourishment.   In the picture below, the gentleman who operates 'Wild Things' hand-feeds one of the triplets, via a syringe, with formula he has prepared to supplement the mother goat's milk.   It was fascinating.   It costs the four of us $20 for the experience.   I told the farmer that it was the best $20 I had spent in a long time...and I meant it.

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Beautiful day ~ beautiful sunset

 Photo by Barry Wallace

RedCrest Cardinal Golf Club

Keele Street ~ north of Hwy. 9

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New homes to replace old wrecking yard

 Photos by Barry Wallace

Nobleton Truck Wreckers ceased to exist on the north side of the King Road, in Nobleton, west of Chinook Drive, more than two years ago.   The acres of old wrecks disappeared and the site was remedially cleared to make way for a housing subdivision.   Just recently, the sign pictured below, appeared at the entrance to the site, announcing the upcoming construction of single homes and townhomes.   Many oldtimers in King thought this would never come to pass, but all's well the ends well.  

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Holland Marsh canal tree-trimming

Photos by Barry Wallace

Holland Marsh Drainage System workers were on the job on Wednesday, felling dead trees along the edge of the canals.   They are pictured above donning their working gear before starting to cut tall trees that could eventually fall across the canal.  In the two photos below, one can see the large adjustable decks on the front of the watercraft, which provide for a stable, in-close working platform.

In the left photo below, one of the workers makes calculated cuts into a dead tree trunk that will make the tall tree trunk fall onto, and parallel to, the canal bank. In the photo on the right, the worker turns and distances himself from the the falling tree trunk.

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Welcoming warmer weather

Photos by Barry Wallace

Hanging out at Jane St. & Hwy. 9

Love that mane

Tails touch the ground

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Swans not moving on yet...

 Photos by Barry Wallace

The small group of nine Trumpeter Swans which is sharing a large, shallow, snow-melt pond, with a thousand or so Canada Geese, on the south side of the 15th Sideroad between Dufferin and Bathurst, doesn't seem in any hurry to move further north.   They've been on this site for almost three weeks now.   With the April weather we've had so far, who can blame them?   Back in the 1980s, a movement began to re-introduce nesting Trumpeter Swans to southern Ontario.   One of the original leaders of the movement was Aurora's Harry Lumsden.   The program and the swans have thrived with over 800 of the huge creatures now overwintering in places like the harbour areas of Oakville and Burlington, the Wye Marsh in Midland and the fields of open areas in places like King Township, during the the spring migration.  

   

The photo of a very young Trumpeter Swan, shown at right, is courtesy of the Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre in Midland.

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Barry Wallace