Marty

Mar

2018

Snowshoeing at Short Hills – Niagara

Feb

2018

When it gets cold enough in Niagara Falls, the Falls freeze. Well, they don't freeze entirely, it has to be pretty damn cold for that to happen. And it has. But recently it was cold enough for lots of ice to happen. It was over the Christmas break 2017. It was very cold and I was amazed/shocked at how many people were out braving the cold. Likely because the Christmas break is the only time when some can get away with the children. School and all. Anyway, it was really cold; so taking photos wasn't easy on the hands but the resulting photos made it so worth while.

This was all hand held. Next time I'll get some kind of gloves that allow me to handle my camera and bring a tripod. That way I can catch some evening pics with the coloured lights on the ice.

No-one is doing the 'under the falls' walk!:

Feb

2018

Niagara-On-The-Lake

More catch up. This one from Niagara-On-The-Lake. We arrived in Ontario it was still Summer. And it stayed that way well into October. The colours came but the warm weather stayed. We played tourist to a large extent when we first arrived. One of the more picturesque places in the area is Niagara-on-the-lake.

Instead of the classic pics of the horse drawn carriages and the architecture of the old buildings, we did some close ups of the flowers. Niagara is nothing if not known for its flowers. Oh yeah, and the wine…:)

Later I’ll post some from the Botanical Gardens. They are quite amazing. It was very late in the year when we went there but still managed to see some roses. Here are some close ups of the plants around some of the buildings …

Feb

2018

Snowshoeing Niagara Botanical Gardens

Great bunch of snow from early this morning…wanted to get in a good hike/snowshoe while it was snowing and before the masses descended. I figured most would wait until the snow at least stopped. We went to Botanical Gardens because didn’t have to traverse any nasty roads – they are kinda scary today. And we have an annual parking membership there. Mostly overcast but the sun did try and sneak through early in the hike.

Temperature was about perfect at about -3-4˚C. This is great for winter hiking. We have boots that are good for -20˚ to -40˚C and we wear a couple of layers on our legs. I wear long johns and Yvonne wears some snow pants. As long as our feet aren’t cold we are good to go.

We were at the north end of the park and I saw movement but couldn’t nail it then a couple minutes later we saw a herd of about 30 white tail deer cross a small clearing in front of us. They went in to the woods at the right and stood real still – I’m sure they thought that we couldn’t see them.

Our obligatory hiking selfie: