Rite of Spring

Today it felt like Spring. It started off warm but rainy -- which made it too hot for me to sleep and to dark for me to get up. This resulted in me lying in bed too long and being late for work. All was forgiven however when the sun came out around 1pm just as I was finishing up at my last clients! I drove around Hamilton for a large chunk of the afternoon with the windows down and it was awesome! I decided to give some sort of purpose to my drive, instead of aimlessly going across the city just because it was warm enough to keep the windows down, so I did something I'd always wanted to do. I checked out the Devil's Punchbowl in Stoney Creek. It was so cool! For anyone who I haven't told about this yet the Devil's Punchbowl is a natural rock formation caused by glacial activity some 450 million years ago. That's amazing enough right there! But the "bowl" itself is a 2.2 km (circumference) circular gorge with a 40m ribbon waterfall flowing into it. The view from the top also provides a view of Hamilton Bay and Stoney Creek, and on a clear day you can even see Burlington (or so I'm told). There is also a large iron cross that some normal guy erected on his on volition. I find that kind of creepy. Anyway if you're in the Hamilton area check it out!