Back from a vacation with Paul's family to Niagara Falls, Canada and five days at the cabin in Black Lake.  What a difference when I got home - no cicadas, no noise, and the blue jays and cardinals who have been dining on a cicada buffet are back at the feeders.  This morning there were two mother turkeys eating the corn, one with four babies, pretty small, and the other had three bigger babies. 

Niagara Falls is amazing, a real international destination, as there were people from all over the world there.  Not much English being spoken.  To ride a boat right into the falls, you board an elevator and go down several hundred feet.  Then you put on a blue raincoat  complete with hood, and you realize soon that you really needed to wear this as you head into the mist of the falls.  The steep banks are lined with seabirds, they looked like gulls and you can see people wearing yellow raincoats walking on a trail that actually takes them behind the falls. We didn't do this.  As you get closer to the falls, the boat, that is loaded with people, starts to roll and shift and everyone has out cameras that are getting wet.  I had my usual throw away camera, and the Japanese were very interested in it - pointing at it and speaking to each other in their language, so I don't know if they were impressed or laughing at me.  Anyway, it was fun, exciting and something to see.  The next day we went over the Rainbow bridge to Canada's side of the falls, which was in some ways even more visibly exciting, as you were on the top of the falls. 

Anyway, I am back to reality, B&B business, and a month away from my next destination vacation, Cape Cod.