Jan 5, 2020 Allan Garden Conservatory, Gerrard st, Toronto

Visited Allan Garden Conservatory in downtown Toronto today.
Saw the lovely Poinsettia plants with colors besides red.
Beautifully decorated glass house filled with hot-house plants and cactus and a few 'fruit-bearing' trees from tropical regions such as papaya and banana.
Below are the many photos I took there.

 above is the cactus called jade ...I have seen this many times but here is the first time I am seeing flowers!

 I am a sucker for symmetry in nature!

 I love these darlings!

Below is a wall painting on a building near the conservatory.

Riverdale farm, dec 23, 2019

Visited Riverdale farm (in Cabbage town) on Dec 23, 2019 to check out if it's right for my 7 month old nephew who's visiting. It was lovely to see this quiet oasis in the middle of busy Toronto..with a cow, horse, a slope for tobogganing, a large park and this lovely old barn above. It's by the Don river. The smell in the barn brought me memories of my childhood in my village...cattle, hay and cow- dung. I loved it!