The Week That Was #12

February 1st to February 7th, 2026

Welcome to this week’s edition of The Week That Was, a collection of images that I’ve taken the previous week.

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And the cold winter weather continues. Twenty three continuous days of below freezing temperatures, although, hopefully, that’s expected to end this week. Hallelujah!! Bring out the shorts and t-shirts. Actually, maybe not. It’s expected to go below freezing again soon and we could also be in for some more snow. “Frigid Fatigue” the TV weather reporter said the other day to perfectly describe how we’re all feeling. No kidding! It had better warm up soon or else a certain groundhog in Wiarton, Ontario who predicted an early spring might not make it to next year’s Groundhog Day. Sadly, although we’re not enjoying this cold winter blast, I can just imagine some of my fellow countrymen, especially those way up North, laughing right now about us pathetic Torontonians whining about how cold it is.

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Anyway, we’re going to start off with a stroll along the lakeshore. Although it was cold on Tuesday, the sun was out and there was no bitter wind. It was a beautiful day in the neighbourhood.

There’s a breakwater, just off from the shoreline, that provides some quiet, safe water in the summer for swimming and other activities like canoeing, paddle boarding and dragon boat races. In the winter, because the water’s so shallow, it freezes over quite quickly.

And, of course, wherever there’s ice (the frozen kind, the nice ice), there’s usually going to be a hockey game.

Fun fact: Lake Superior, the biggest of the Great Lakes is currently 50% frozen over; Lake Huron is 66% frozen; Lake Erie is 95% frozen and Lake Michigan and Lake Ontario are both about 33% frozen.

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This week, I borrowed Lee Friedlander’s “The Shadow Knows” from the library. It’s a great collection of images where his own shadow always appears, often in very humorous ways. It’s definitely worth a look.

Anyway, inspired by the book, I took a couple of shadow images myself. However, I’ll be the first to admit that they’re no where near as humorous or imaginative as Friedlander’s. I’ll do better next time.

Lastly, here’s a few random images:

An iPhone image of the CN Tower on a cold, snowy morning

Following on from last week’s post, here’s another front yard statue

And, because I haven’t posted one for a couple of weeks, here’s a lost glove. At least, I assume it’s lost.

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That’s all for now, folks. Hope you have a great week.