Heading to "The River"--Makes My Monday

We headed 2 hours due north Sunday to attend my nephew's graduation party from highschool.

That fun will get its own post, but on the way home we took a 15 minute drive for a great little side trip.

We headed over the St. Lawerence River on the 1000 Island Bridge.
The kids were absolutely thrilled for this unexpected fun.
At the top of the bridge, overlooking a few of the 1000 Islands and the St. Lawerence River.
Can you say GORGEOUS!!

Wellesley Island State Park

Gracie just loved this bench :-)

"How big is your wingspan?"

Amy made a new friend.

painted lady butterfly

There were quite a few nesting pairs of ospreys---nesting of the electric poles.

Sillouette against the great St. Lawerence Seaway

Amy with her feet in "the river"

If you live in our part of the country there is only one "river". You head up to "the river" in the summer. My Miami nieces are visiting for a few weeks and they were puzzled when we would refer to "the river". As Amanda stated, "There are a lot of rivers, Aunt Joann." But we corrected her, "There is only one "river" in our neck of the woods!"

And it is beautiful!!

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The Great Saint Lawrence Seaway

We stopped after Sue's birthday party today and took this photo of the St. Lawrence River. Usually you can see some open water but right now it looks totally iced over. I stole this picture for my brother and his wife's blog. From Our Front Porch Looking In

They were trying to scoop us at the river, but as you can see, Dan and I were there first.
Here are some of the bouys waiting for the ice to break up so they can be placed out in the river. Daniel is 6ft2inches tall, so these are really, really big.
I also had to stop and take pictures of these cute haybale characters.
Two of these must be Easter bunny bales.