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Niagara Falls
Saturday 10 July 2004
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| Saturday started at the Niagara Falls Botanical Gardens, on the same site as the Butterfly Conservatory.
This is a Sutter's Gold hybrid tea rose
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 | Michelle in front of an array of flowers
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| "Sexy Rexy" Floribunda Rose
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 | "Die Welt" ("The World") hybrid tea rose
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| Two shots of the "Double Delight" hybrid tea rose
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| Two shots of the "Valencia" hybrid tea rose
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| Two shots of the "Electron" hybrid tea rose
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| Two shots of the "Newport Fairy" rambler rose
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| "Mister Lincoln" hybrid tea rose
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 | Some flowerbeds
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| Niagara Falls Botanical Gardens
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 | The sign is made up of two colors of "carpet flowers"
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| Flowers we didn't get the names of
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 | A family of geese. I was surprised how close I could get before the parents herded them away.
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| I love how the parents will stand on either side of the group of children, looking around.
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 | It reminds me of a chain gang for some reason.
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 | The next stop was the Floral Clock. The clock face is made up of plants and flowers, and is redesigned every year.
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| The green background is Santolina Virens, and the red F A L L S letters are Alternanthera Disney Pink.
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 | The red design is Alternanthera Rosea, and the blue (it looks white in the picture) is Santolina Chamaeyparissius.
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| Fish in the pond around the base of the clock.
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 | The raised N I A G A R A letters are Golden Privet.
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 | Next was the Lost Birds of the Amazon aviary
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| The first set of birds are in dark cages, and the pictures didn't come out so well.
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 | I think we have a guide to naming all of the birds, but I don't have it at this moment.
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| I tried to get a picture of a bird bathing under a little waterfall. This is the best of the bunch.
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| These are a mother and her babies
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 | I got two pictures, then the mother herded the babies underneath her.
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| Owls. These pictures were in a dark room, with a 1-second exposure and no tripod.
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| Screech Owls.
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| The second set of birds are in an open aviary.
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 | They must be pretty used to people by now, because they don't go flying away when you get near them.
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 | Some of them strut right up to you for a picture.
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 | They had a little enclosed area where you could buy a little thing of food,
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| and the birds will swoop right down to you and eat.
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 | Sometimes two at a time.
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| Sometimes three at a time.
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| One of the Casino Hotels on the water had this wave design in a bush.
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 | A huge Hershey Kiss is going to fall off the building. It's a Hershey store.
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