Sunday, September 23, 2007

Swan Creek

Hard to believe this is in the middle of a city of 300,000.
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5 comments:

uncle jim said...

it looks like it could have been a part of the old canal system - off the maumee and west / southwest to ft wayne

September 23, 2007 at 10:02 PM
DP said...

I know of smaller cities (Lansing, Ann Arbor) that have that arboreal look, but nothing of Toledo's size.

If more large cities had belts like that, I'd like them more.

BTW--there are still intact sections of Toledo's canal system? Detroit's were reclaimed long ago, but you can still see fragments of an old wooden dam and sections of the locks here and there (no standing water, though).

September 24, 2007 at 9:46 AM
Jeffrey Smith said...

There isn't really any part of the canals left. The areas where they used Swan Creek have gone back to nature. The rest has been turned into roads.
One morning I stood on a bridge and watched a heron for half an hour. There was the headquarters of a major corporation a few hundred feet to one side and a busy downtown street a few hundred feet to the other. That probably couldn't happen elsewhere.

September 24, 2007 at 9:55 AM
DP said...

Ah, thanks.

A heron? You can't see me, but I just turned a shade of light green. My parents have a couple of herons on their still half-wilderness lake in Northern Lower Michigan.

Me? I'm happy when I see a sparrow go by my Motown office window.

September 24, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Jeffrey Smith said...

There are always herons in the Maumee, at Walbridge Park, but that was the only time I've ever seen one downtown.
I've even seens a bald eagle in Toledo.

September 24, 2007 at 12:37 PM

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