Blue Shoefly and a trip to The Gorge!!

Yesterday was a great day for hiking and spending time with family and friends!! But first.....the card!!

This is a card that I made using that cute little Shoefly!! This time I used the colours from the Deja Views patterned paper and used my Prismacolour pencils and OMS to colour him/her in. I used that awesome Versafine ink again on shimmery paper and after I coloured the image, I added some Stickles on the wings. I used the Mega circle punch and then the Giga scalloped circle punch to cut out the Night of Navy cardstock. I also doodled around the frame in a not-so-perfect circle. I used NON for the base and matted with Old Olive and also did an OO strip across the center after stamping the smallest flower from the Little Lady set across it. I stamped the 'hello' from the Papertray set and finished it off with some silver brads in the corners. This card was sent to my Secret Pal through the Wish-RAK forum.



So yesterday we took Emileigh and her friend, Jacqueline for a little trip. We left here about noon (because the girls could not be ready before then) and we drove to Elora Gorge. It's about an hour and a half away from here and it was a nice drive. We got there around 1:30pm and entered the Conservation Area. There are lots of things to do there. There is a camping section, a play area, several picnic areas with pavillions. But the big attraction is The Gorge. It's a really awesome sight (at least it is for us Ontarians that generally live in a very flat area) and it's so beautiful. Al and I each brought our cameras and took some really nice photos. Hope ya like 'em!!



We walked the trail through the forested area and all along the Gorge. You have to be VERY careful!! Even though the trail is railed off in most areas, it is still quite dangerous and actually a couple of weeks ago, a young boy fell into the gorge and was killed. So we are very careful to stick together and we can see the girls at all times. They are kind of clutzy sometimes (I don't know where my Emileigh gets THAT!! quiet Mom!) and have been known to trip on the flattest of ground!!

Anyway, the trail was awesome and in several spots you can climb right down to the water. These couple of pics were taken along the banks of the water.



Emileigh took this photo of Al and I sitting on a rock and I especially love the next one of the three girls!! Notice I'm the shortest!! I'm sure I was standing on the downslope of the riverbank.....honest!!!



It was a wonderful day and next time we go, hopefully later in the summer when the water is warmer, we can do the super fun thing to do there.........go tubing down the rapids!!! Whippee!!