This caterpillar was saeen ambling across the snow off Blackwell Side Road on Jan. 8 of this year, a date you wouldn’t expect to find any sensible insect out and about.
Baxter, a 13-year-old Sheltie, didn’t mind the glare of a hot sun at this year’s Hot August Nights car show in Canatara Park, thanks to these cool specs provided by owner Tracey Haynes. Glenn Ogilvie
This caterpillar was saeen ambling across the snow off Blackwell Side Road on Jan. 8 of this year, a date you wouldn’t expect to find any sensible insect out and about. Though most butterflies and moth caterpillars emerge in April or May a few do become active in winter, entomologists say.Glenn Ogilvie
Journal Staff
You find them every so often scattered here and there across our community, little curiosities tucked in corners and out of the way places.
Presented here is the latest of an ongoing and irregular series of oddities The Journal found interesting in their own right.
Some are quirky, others clever or fun.
But all of them were encountered this year and have one thing in common — the power to make a person stop and say, ‘Well, look at that.”
Stick figure families have become ubitquitous on the rear windows of family vehicles everywhere. This droll response was spotted on a vehicle parked in a Brock Street driveway.George Mathewson
A lung cake, in vanilla and chocolate, was the centrepiece of a spread at the home of Judy and Dave Brown in June. The barbecue was a joyous reunion for a group of lung transplant recipients who had become tight-knit friends while waiting, often for months, at Toronto General Hospital for a donor organ to become available.Tara Jeffrey
There's no place like gnome. A tree stump at 276 Christina St. South has been converted into this inviting custom-built single-detached home for wee folk.Glenn Ogilvie
The Chipican Restaurant sign, a longtime north-end landmark of iffy political correctness, came down earlier this year when the Christina Street restaurant was renovated and reborn as the Lake Point Grillhouse.Cathy Dobson
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