Flutterby butterfly

I took alot of photos in the Butterfly Conservatory, and also of the Botanical gardens. I am not sure how I will scrapbook them, I think I may try to do a collage page. The gardens were so beautiful and lush, I was so envious, we just can't grow gardens like that here in dry, hot Sask. We certainly enjoyed looking at all the flowers there, or i guess i did, I really can't speak for dh, although he didn't complain and he carried my camera bag too! What a great guy!!

We celebrated our 35th Wedding Anniversary!

This is only a small view of what the streets look like in Niagara on the Lake. It is the most beautiful place, but having said that, it is quite expensive! At least, during the tourist season.

My dh wanted to see a play at the Shaw Festival. So we booked tickets for King Charles' Golden Days which meant that we had to stay an extra day here, hmmm, not so bad an idea. We walked the streets and checked out all the little boutiques. Lots of art galleries and little stores with pottery.etc.

This was our spectacular room at the Hilton's Embassy Suites for our stay in Niagara Falls. We stayed there one night, our anniversary night and then we moved onto Niagara On the Lake. They had alot of B&B's there, but unfortunately they had no vacancies. I had wanted to book on line but dh wanted to "wing it" for this holiday and the only room he let me prebook was this one. I am not a great "winging it" kind of gal but I did it for this week. We actually had pretty good luck with finding rooms when we wanted them.

And this was the view from our suite. It was breath taking. We did go on the Maid of the Mist ride and that took our breath away too, but because it was windy and extremely wet!! We stood on the top and in the front, probably the windiest and wettest place to be on the entire boat, but we did get a good look at the falls!

All in all, it was a great holiday, we enjoyed our time together and even though it was very hot and humid, we did get to see alot of countryside.

So Sorry everyone. I haven't been a good blogger lately. I really don't have an excuse, I just haven't been keeping up with this. I really haven't been doing any scrapbooking either. I just can't seem to get myself motivated to do anything crafty. I have, however, been reading alot of books!!

I am getting excited though. We are going to go to Niagara Falls on Sunday, my dh and I, to celebrate our 35th wedding anniversary. I may have mentioned this previously but now the time is actually here!! We would have left earlier than Sunday but dh is involved with the German Club and he has to be there for these 3 days of Folkfest. So that is why we are leaving on a Sunday.

We did manage a short visit with friends at Tobin Lake last weekend and I had my camera with me, with my trusty telephoto lens, so I did get a few good shots of a friendly little squirrel they had running around. These friends have been building a log cabin on their lot. Last year, they moved out the old trailer that they have been using for many years and they started on the cabin that they have dreamed about. Our friend retired last June from the department of highways and he had made the decision that his first year of retirement would be building this cabin and then maybe he would look for a parttime job after it was done. They just have some varnishing to do yet but basically it is all done. I will post a photo on here and not feel guilty because their kids have it posted on facebook so they probably won't mind that it is on my blog. The cabin.....The cute little squirrel......This is a woodpecker that visits the birdfeeder hanging in a nearby tree at the cabin. There are

2 of them and our friends know what the proper names of them are, one is quite abit bigger than the other one.

And finally my patience won out and I got a couple of shots at catching the ever elusive hummingbird!! I sat for quite awhile to capture this little guy. And he kept coming into the feeder from the tree side so when I snapped the photo he blended in with the tree. He finally decided to try the other side of the feeder and I got a couple of snaps in, but he was pretty quick with his snack!!