Today's adventure

We managed to get out on the bikes for about the 3rd time this year.  We got home and spent a couple of hours working, me int he studio and David in the garden.  Another hour of both of us in the studio and David is talking about lunch, saying he was thinking about some canned salmon.  I laughed and said that I was thinking about the A&W coupons that came in the mail.  Let's go, he says.  So after some confused discussion about where we were going we ended up heading for Lockport via Henderson.  Oh how it has changed.  Huge housing developments, and when I say huge, I mean not only the acreage but also the size of the houses themselves.  I can sure see where the term McMansion came from.

After teenburgers, chips and root beer, our challenge was to find Pelicans to photograph.  We found a small group right up against a little dock just on the North side of the locks.  No way we could get a picture as they were only visible from the bridge, and they frown on you stopping to take pictures there.  We found none in Selkirk, but did find the new harbour front.  What a very nice development that is!  A tiered system for both cars and people, that gets you right down to the waterfront.  A lovely setting, with ice cream etc at the top of the hill, and not "in your face" down where there was the view.  But, alas, no pelicans.

So home on #59 where we stopped at a greenhouse and bought two Columbine and two Iris.  The Columbine is for the front garden near the driveway, and the Iris for the against the garage at the end closest to the house--one blue and one yellow. Hope they survive the freeze tonight.