Category: Gardens
Photos from visits to Gardens as we travel around the US and Canada
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Model Trains and Model T’s
08 June 2024 – Saturday Gibsonville, NC Visited Gibsonville to see the Garden Railroad in operation. A bonus was meeting a group of Model T owners who had the same idea. It’s a fun place to see model trains operating in their town park. The layout operates most Saturdays from nine to noon. Twenty-two trains…
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Backyard Visitors
Even when we’re not traveling, we still enjoy wildlife. Birds, butterflies, moths, deer, and raccoons are regular backyard visitors. Here are five quick photos from last spring (2024) that had been sitting in an unpublished post for too long. We captured these using a Nikon D750 with a Nikkor 200-500 f/5.6 lens. Double-click on any…
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Hummers
We don’t post much when on the road, but had good luck capturing hummingbirds this morning. We set the camera up on a tripod and used a phone app to focus and trip the shutter. This is an updated set of photos from the third day of shooting. Enjoy…
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Canada’s Capital
25-26 July 2023 We spent two days exploring Ottawa by bus, boat, and foot. and share photos from our first visit to Canada’s Capital City. First of all, thanks are due to “Byron’s Urban Oasis” Boondockers Welcome host. Unfortunately, we never met them, but we truly appreciate the opportunity to sleep in their city driveway…
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Pembroke to Ottawa’s Botanical Gardens
24 July 2023 Monday Today we travel from Pembroke to Ottawa, stopping at small towns along the river on the way to Canada’s capital. Pembroke, ONSunrise view out our window. We dumped the waste tanks and filled our water before leaving the city campground. 0856 58,040 70°F Leave Campground We stopped in downtown Pembroke…
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Waterfalls and a Giant Nickel
21 July 2023 — Friday East along the trans-Canada highway to Sudbury with a detour to find some pretty waterfalls. 0835 57, 672 62°F Leave the Clayton Farm Harvest Host in Webbwood, ON 0950 57,729 65° Onaping Falls We detoured north onto Highway 144 to find waterfalls. We highly recommend stopping here! A.Y. Jackson Lookout…
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