A few weeks ago I made a post about a trail that I was hoping would be developed so people could get a neat new view of our city. Click on the picture below to see the post I'm talking about!
Well check out this cool tweet to see the updated trail! My hope is for it to go all the way to Garbage Hill/Westview Park but I don't think it does just yet... but getting closer!
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I visited our butterfly garden today! Look at all the Monarch Caterpillars! When I think back to the first year of our ESGEnviroClub in 2015 and that the first thing students back then wanted was a butterfly garden, it is so great to see what has happened! You can read more about how the families of the ESG PAC helped by providing funds for the butterfly garden as part of their plan to add natural features to the playground, and many families came out to help build it! Click on the picture below!
Here is a beautiful song by Kelly Bado about our earth: I loved reading her thoughts about her song: “Like a mother, she gives us, continuously, natural resources. She is doing her best to take care of all the people, so we should remember that and also give back.” Click on the image below to read more from this awesome article about Kelly Bado's "Hey Terre", article by Heather Kitching: Also an interesting children's book called "What Happened When We All Stopped", narrated by Jane Goodall: I am happy to have discovered an amazing blog full of activities for nature! Check these out for fun summer activities that are nature-friendly!
Click on the picture below: On the last day of Bike Everywhere Month, yesterday (May 31st), I went on a trail from Wolseley, which is currently is a popular "cycling and walking route"- meaning that it is closed to vehicle traffic from 8am-8pm - to Westview Park, which is better known as Garbage Hill. I feel like this could be such a great bike route to show our city, and I am hoping that what I saw was the beginnings of an active commute trail being created from one point to the other. A few years ago, my family rented bikes and rode through some of San Francisco, across the Golden Gate Bridge, and into Sausalito. As we passed, we saw the Ghirardelli Factory, and lovely streets. It's great to have chances to see special spots, and it was really clear where to go to see these spaces, because the bike infrastructure is there, Here, there are so many people who are looking to go on adventures with their kids, and while I was on this ride, I saw a man and his child who stopped to ask me if there was a trail from where I had come. I replied "Sort of... If you keep next to Omand's Creek, it becomes more of a path that I hope will be a true bike path soon... " Here is where I started, the bike/walking street: Like many areas in Winnipeg, this beautiful area is known for natural cathedral-like arches of its Elm trees. Winnipeg is home to the largest urban elm forest in North America... From there, I glide down to Omand's Creek, which in this spot seems quite well taken care of.... Then overtop of the train tracks to Wolseley West which I didn't realize was there until I went over those tracks with a bike group one year! You can pass the old, historic St. James Church, where many of my ancestors are buried. But I didn't go as far as that (it's quite close, to go see though, and on a weekend like Doors Open Winnipeg that would be a nice destination). I stopped and went over the just-finished Empress street, with a walkway that is still being built, and I hope is meant to also have a bike trail added... ....because the views of the city are pretty neat there... all the way to downtown one way.......and all the way out west on the Transcanada Highway in the other direction... If you look in that above picture with the sidwalk, and hopefully a bike trail being added, you can see a little bridge that goes across Omand's Creek... that is a little park that was landscaped in the 90s to have a nice space for wildlife (lots of marsh birds) and a return of prairie plants that would have grown there in the past. People don't really notice this area on Empress, right next to Polo Park, but seeing as it is right next to this huge destination mall area, it would be so great to continue to bring beauty to it. In San Diego, they have this ability to have destination businesses in harmony with beautiful plants, trees and sights. Landscaping and beauty can be added anywhere and I hope that is the plan here as there is a lot of construction going on and it's exciting! As I continued along, the lovely bike path sort of ends. Here is the end of it... at St. Matthews. Then it actually does continue on the other side, I learned on the way back, but it seriously starts at the doorstep of this beer store, which is odd: Seeing as there was a sign further back about the little parkland area near the bridge (in the photo above), and that the parkland was made in the 90s, it makes me wonder if this beer store came after that, and is sort of where this little trail should be... but the trail can be moved over for this brief spot. Here the trail becomes lesser, but I could see Garbage Hill so I just went with it. There was still a narrow trail, but not an official one... and I do have to say, the sounds of the marsh birds were always present... would be so nice to take care of this creek for the animals that use it all along... it's been built over and some people don't even know it's there... I think people might think it's just a ditch... but it's a little creek. And then here you are at Westview Park, AKA Garbage Hill, where you can see downtown, and ride or walk up and down... it's a nice view, and a great spot for a sunset :-) And there you have it! My little exploration of what I am hoping will be built into a nice little trail from either Wolseley or Wellington Crescent, or even all the way from Charleswood, because that hooks up through Assiniboine Park... Anyway this could be a nice way to see some different sites in Winnipeg, in an area that people frequent...
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