Short vacation in Guelph

 Kevin and Broghan were vacationing in Europe and so Rick and I stayed at their place in Guelph for a couple of days. Did a little exploring, ate out and catsat Davey and Cal.

The first day we drove up to Elora

and walked

some trails

beside the gorge.

Then towards the village.

The Tooth in the centre of the falls.

I loved the reflections of the falls in the windows of the Elora Mill Hotel dining room. From here we watched a mink swim across the pool below the falls and run into one of the drainage holes for the hydro generating plant.

Tree of Life, artist Paul Morin. We popped into some of the touristy stores but I really wasn't in to it.

Still tired in the afternoon, I was dragging.

Rick suggested I sit in this garden and he would go and get the car

But I slowly made my way back.

Photo for Nic, the fungi lover.

We walked a couple of blocks to the Woolly Pub for supper. One of the nice things about being in the city is the proximity to restaurants. Not so nice was the traffic noise when we slept with the window open.

The next morning we walked in the other direction, past a row of typical Guelph, old, stone houses

to buy our breakfast at With the Grain. A great bakery and it was difficult making the choice of 2 scones (one lemon, one mixed fruit) which we split and shared.

Then it was off to the Arboretum on Guelph University campus.

There were

some formal gardens

This, in the English Garden was the sun garden in yellows and creams.

The sky garden had blues and purples.

But the focus is not on flowers

but on trees,

most of them labelled.

In spite of my impeccable sense of direction

and various maps (one in a brochure, one downloaded onto Ricks phone and others on boards scattered through the property)

we managed to get totally lost

and inadvertently, thoroughly explored

only one small corner of the property.

That evening we had Nicola's birthday dinner at Lucky Belly and the next day drove home, via Northland nursery, as I have a new flower bed to fill (pictures of that later).