Here I'm looking from my balcony, almost due west. The water is a shallow indent of Lake Ontario called Humber Bay and is much wider across than it is deep, despite how it appears. The Humber River itself has its mouth under the white white footbridge that looks like an arc. Most of the city beyond is the rest of the west end of Toronto, but the buildings on the horizon are downtown Mississauga, an easy ten miles away. Beyond that, and even dimmer, is the Niagara escarpment, about 300 feet above the Lake Ontario plain. The day is fairly clear, but on a crystal clear day the escarpment is visible in detail. Features like Rattlesnake Point, Kelso Point, and Mt. Nemo stand out from the blur. The escarpment is about 40 miles distant. In the foreground is a ten or twelve story apartment with while balconies. for those of you who know the names, Mike Glicksohn and Susan Wood used to live in that building. Hidden behind it is the beach where the Yankees landed in 1813, to invade and burn the primordial Toronto. It may have been a mistake, since the town was actually three or four miles further east. But they may have felt it necessary to reduce Fort York first, which was about one mile east of my building. In the end the captured fort and city, but their loses were apalling. Redcoats and freindly Indians took their toll, but the main cause for the high casualty list is that nobody noticed the lit fuse leading to the magazine. It blew up and killed more American soldiers than did the battle, including their commanding officer.