boldts.net

Welcome to boldts.net!

Photo of your hosts Hans and Sylvana, in Oberammergau, Germany, 1994.

What?

Welcome to this diverse collection of photographs and information about a variety of topics. boldts.net began as a modest personal web page hosted on Geocities, with just a few dozen visits per week. Since then it has grown and grown, and now in 2008 this site has over 1700 HTML documents and welcomes thousands of visitors every day.

Who?

This web site is owned and maintained by Hans Boldt and Sylvana Grisonich-Boldt. We are a middle-aged, middle-class couple living in suburban Toronto with our daughter and cat. We met in 1993, and since we were so obviously right for each other, we got married the following year.

Why?

One of the strengths of the internet is that people from around the world can share what they know with others. We offer information about things around us, places we've been, and things we're interested in. By the number of visitors to this site, we know many of these things are also of interest to others. boldts.net is simply our way to pay back for all the useful stuff we find on the internet.

How?

Although this might seem like a lot of work, it really isn't. We take photographs of places we visit anyways. It's then simply a matter of formatting them, writing some text, and uploading the material.

By the way...

Lately, you can find us posting on the discussion groups at LaWOOT!. Look for posting by Hans and SpearmintFur. Fur can sometimes be found in the chat room at LaWOOT!.

Site News

April 25, 2008: Added pages Toronto Zoo 3 and Yonge & Elm.

April 24, 2008: Added page Toronto Zoo 2.

April 22, 2008: Restructured the Animals section. Also, added page Woodlands Trail.

April 21, 2008: Added page Lower Highland Creek.

April 18, 2008: Added pages East Point Park, Colonel Danforth Park and Colonel Danforth Park.

April 10, 2008: Added Toronto page: Eglinton & Keele, Eglinton & Oakwood, Eglinton Hill, Haverson Park, Keele & Rogers, St. Hilda's Park, Silverthorne and York Eglinton.

April 6, 2008: New section added: Rouge Valley. Also, added a new album: German Trains 2.

March 25, 2008: Added page Morningside Park.

March 18, 2008: Added page Collins Creek.

March 16, 2008: Added pages Lemoine Point #2 and Lemoine Point #3.

March 15, 2008: Added some photos to the Scarbrough Trains album.

March 14, 2008: Added pages Byward Market 1979 and Along the K&P 1980.

February 25, 2008: Added Toronto page Queen Street West 1981.

January 25, 2008: Added page Birds, as well as Downy Woodpecker and White-Breasted Nuthatch.

January 24, 2008: New section added: Port Union.

January 6, 2008: New section added: Highland Creek.

January 4, 2008: Pages added to Trains section: Buildings and Scenery 3.

December 31, 2007: New section added: Stained Glass.

December 14, 2007: New section added: West Hill.

November 14, 2007: Added Scarborough page Rouge Beach Park and Trains page GO Transit Album. Also, a few updates to Toronto Trains.

November 9, 2007: Added some photos to the Scarborough Trains album. Also added Scarborough pages Cudia Park and Port Union Commons.

August 14, 2007: Some new pages in the Ottawa Valley section: Golden Lake Village, Pembroke History, and Pembroke Today.

July 27, 2007: Still more new Toronto pages: Charles Sauriol Conservation Reserve (North) and Ernest Thompson Seton Park.

July 24, 2007: Some more new Toronto pages: Hillcrest Village and Corsa Italia.

July 17, 2007: We visited the Ottawa Valley again this year. I finally got around to adding some pages from this and last summer's visits.

July 4, 2007: Some new Toronto pages: Edwards Gardens, and Wilket Creek Park.

June 26, 2007: It was a hot day today. Very Hot. But before it got too stifling outside, I managed to visit a few Toronto neighborhoods and took some pictures. Some new pages: Charles Sauriol Conservation Reserve, and Flemingdon Park.

June 18, 2007: After dropping my car off for service, I took a walk along Eglinton Avenue East. Here are some new pages: Eglinton & Laird, Eglinton & Don Mills, and Eglinton & Wynford.

June 14, 2007: Lately, I've been taking pictures faster than I can create web pages. I've now added a big bunch of new pages in the Toronto section: Blythwood Ravine, Eglinton & Leslie, Science Centre, Sherwood Park, Sunnybrook Hospital, Sunnybrook Park, Thorncliffe Park, Woodbine & Cosburn, Woodbine & O'Connor, Woodbine & Sammon, Yonge & GlenCairn, and Yonge & Lawrence.

April 26, 2007: On a warm Saturday in April, I took pictures in the following Toronto neighborhoods: Donlands Village, O'Connor & Greenwood, Donlands & Mortimer, Greenwood & Mortimer, Olde East York Village, Coxwell & Mortimer, Cullen Bryant Park, Taylor Creek Park, and Danforth & Main.