Beating the Heat and Meeting the Queen in Her Lace Finery

We are in the middle of a heat wave, but it did cool down more than usual overnight Sunday. In addition, we also got out earlier than usual yesterday morning. We had already been getting out earlier lately, but we walked well before 8 yesterday.

We also took ourselves out of our neighbourhood over to the back bridges where we found Queen Anne and her lace (Daucus carota) was blooming widely and wildly.

It was profuse behind the unfortunate, dilapidating, historic machine shop. (Nothing but phone pics today,)

We could see it later by the river as we looked first to the trail bridge and also back toward the old shop by Gillies Bridge.

And there was more of the Queen’s finery to see looking toward the old McArthur Mill.

After the walk, it was still delightfully cool, so we picked up coffee and took it to the park. Since Sue's photo prompt combined ‘red and leisure’, she decided that AC sitting leisurely on a park bench with red hat, red shirt and red coffee cup would fit the bill nicely. The clothes weren't staged for the photo; I just frequently wear red. The cup, however, was staged because the cups they gave us were a special blue for Tim Hortons camp funding week, so we begged for a traditional red cup, which remained empty for the photo.