whole lotta water... mist can be seen for miles around... my morning observation, looking out the hotel window: 'hey, the falls are still on...'
i took this picture b/c we suspected that the people in the boat couldn't see the rainbow from their angle looking into the sun, and thus were totally unaware to be passing beneath one... i think i spend a lot of my life similarly unaware of all the rainbows above me...
my Niagara Falls review... b/c you always here people say "the canadian side is waaaay better than the american side." :p per my usual position, i disagree with the majority. on the NY side, you are standing directly above the falls. more mist. more power beneath your feet. take your shoes off and rest the soles of your feet on the bare ground. feel the vibration of Nature from the soles of your feet along your spine to the top of your head. stand alongside the river and watch the rapids race by you. head to the canadian side and view it from a distance. so pretty. so far away. so removed. ok, and quite misty. im much more in favor of the interactive experience, as opposed to the sightseeing.
downtown niagara falls canada is a bit too vegas, chain restaurant, new mall construction for this girl... but the greenspace & streetscaping around their parks & walkways is gorgeous.
ever onward. after the vegas lights of downtown niagara falls, the quaintness of downtown niagara-on-the-lake and the scattered wineries is so great.
stratus winery was amazing, and wins the honor of my blog commercial & recommendation. more of a boutique winery - both style & service here surpassed any of the others we attended - they produce small quantities of high quality wine. they laid us out at this long table in their tasting room, overlooking the vineyard and brought us all kinds of yummy wines. the building is silver LEED certified. very cool. even better - they have bike racks out front and offer discounts for cyclists. my kinda place. they are about to ramp up their production and nervous they won't move it so help them out!
the incubator room at stratus ;) they import each barrel from france - b/c french oak gives a better vanilla taste than american oak, i believe. and each barrel is ridiculously expensive... ~$1000/ea & used for 4 years.
vineyard education when my introverted side came out and i took off for a solo vineyard tour. not photographed: the ridiculous amount of fruit files. whew! (taken at konzelmann's winery)
why it's called niagara on the lake... again, observed during my solo vineyard excursions when drunk people & wine tasting started to bore me.
i would definitely return... but i would stay in niagara-on-the-lake... not downtown.
believin' in miracles,
c.
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