Although spring doesn't officially arrive until March 20th, it sure felt like it was here this weekend. It may have snowed briefly on Friday, but yesterday was all about sun. I seized the opportunity to take one of my favorite walks - down by Toronto's Harbourfront.

After bean-juicing it up at my favorite coffee spot (perhaps not the best coffee, but the best locale), I headed off down the docks. It seemed that everyone was in a better, more talkative mood due to the pleasant weather...

A friend had told me about some awesome machinery afoot on the 'under construction' portion of the older wharfs...

I miss the time when Soulpepper had its two stages in these parts, so I don't find myself down here too often; some of the docks near were still shut-off to the common meandering so-and-so, but the view was still lovely...

I had a nice chat with a young man near the island-boat-tour concessions, who had come down from an adjacent condo to bring the local 'wildlife' some food...

Farther west is the odd, yet still lovely yellow-umbrella clad HTO waterfront park. Although most of the surfaces have skateboarding-proof

metal clasps

, the surfaces just by the water seemed useful enough for some...

If you look closely, there is something very Escher-esque about this next snap...

Adjacent are various pleasure-craft, just aching for the upcoming season...

It was a lovely day, but given the recent bipolar nature of Toronto weather-patterns, I can only hope that we have more like it in store; "you must spend your days; you cannot take them with you" (Annie Dillard).