A brief trip to Toronto to see Jeter (get creamed!)...

We can't return we can only look
Behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
(Joni Mitchell, from the song "The Circle Game")
Written in response to Neil Young's Sugar Mountain. In the Goldmine interview From Blue to Indigo, William Ruhlman writes:

Another early composition was "The Circle Game," Mitchell's song about a young boy's rites of passage. It was inspired by another song, Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain." Mitchell had met Young in 1964 at the Fourth Dimension folk club at the University of Manitoba, and encountered him again in the Yorkville district of Toronto in 1965. Young, a member of the Squires rock 'n' roll group, had written "Sugar Mountain" on his 19th birthday, November 12, 1964, as a lament for the approaching end of his teenage years ("You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.") Mitchell took the story to its logical conclusion, but offered hope. "So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty/ Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true/There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty/Before the last revolving year is through."

Later, Neil would write and perform a song for Joni called Sweet Joni from Saskatoon (though a recording exists only in "unofficial form").

Observed on early morning walk with Tom through Toronto's Little Italy.

Building at the University of Toronto.

View of downtown Toronto as seen from the harbourfront.