Great scenario and composition! Any excuse to see some curious soul getting stuck :P

Welp she dun goofed... She left the trail... oh well.

A slightly more realistic scene. So much more detail, and all of it fits the picture. You always imply so much background with a few tiers of plantlife. Is that the Toronto city hall peeking out behind the right of her head?

Similar building, but the skyline is wrong for the location, nor is there anything like a park with any sort of wetland like that. In fact, there's damn little in downtown Toronto city where you could more than muddy the bottom of your boots a little. You have to know where to look, in the deeper river valleys around the city limits.

Hah, that's pretty much all I accomplished in the park next to the Westin during one Furnal Equinox. And that was helped along by the temps jumping up several degrees above freezing following a much colder day/night before.

Somewhere on Shutterstock's video-clip library I ran across a group of 2013-2014 videos of college students wading through lakes of slush in what I believe is Queen's Park. Particularly interesting were the ones with women who wound up wading through nearly foot-deep slushy water while wearing only fashion boots (tall, yes, but with zippered shafts that pose little resistance to water). I guess they surmised "well, my feet are already wet, might as well keep going"

Queen's Park? That's the grounds around the Provincial Parliament buildings on Avenue Road. There might be puddles and they could be three or four inches deep, but clearly puddles unless there had been construction going on at the time. Normally the park is flat grass, with these of Victorian government buildings at one end, and a lot of statues. I wonder if you were thinking of High Park, or some other location?

Near as I can tell, it's a downtown park encircled by college facilities, has numerous paths crossing it, and no sidewalks alongside the streets bordering it. In the videos I saw, it wasn't so much rainwater, but rain or melt-water hemmed in by snowpack, generating huge slush puddles that you pretty much had to be wearing wellies to wade across and still keep your feet dry (especially if you wandered off the paved paths). Looking over a street map of downtown Toronto, Queens Park seems to be where these videos were shot. I looked around and re-found some of the clips on Shutterstock:

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--clip 13600736 (the second woman to wade into the puddle is the same one seen playfully kicking the water in the first clip...and she appears to be wearing fashion boots rather than wellies if you slow down the first clip as she exits the puddle)

--clip 13600658

--clip 12780566 boots were almost not high enough :D

--clip 13600574 She's not wearing wellies, you can see zippers on her boots. She stops upon seeing just how big this puddle is, and goes around. But it appears walking thru shallow slush at the edges gets her feet wet anyway, because...

--clip 12780686 ...she gives up trying to go-around and steps thru the slush, not stopping even as it reaches halfway up her boots

--clip 13600592 Boots not quite high enough, judging from the expression on her face :)

All that sounds about right. Just big puddles that might be a couple of inches deep in some spots, or more in unusually depressed places, but it's just run-off water. It dries up when it stops raining or the snow has all melted. What you're looking for would be the several river ravines that cross the city from north the south. The east end it better than the west end, because the west end runs down to the bedrock. The more east you go, the more sediment, and some of the ravines have boggy pockets or even oxbows with genuine quicksand. but like almost all quicksand, it's rarely more than a couple of feet deep.

Dude, even the friggin foliage is expert level.