Holiday Home Tour

Just three weeks until the Niagara Life Centre Holiday Home Tour. It's hard to believe that it is almost here (and so is Christmas). The committee began it's planning last Jan and thanks to all the feedback from past surveys, we strive to make the tour better each year. I have added a couple of more pictures from last year's tour that VFD created in a century farmhome. The tour this year is again centered in the Vineland/Jordan/Port Dalhousie area. What a selection of historical and renovated homes we have on this tour. Each location has it's own uniqueness about it. St John's Church in Jordan will be decorated to reflect a Huron Carol, the historic homestead on Gregory Road dates back to the 1700's (but deaded in the 1800's), the retro revival on Jordan Rd is not to be missed. Francis Denny from Aquisitions Interiors has gutted and revived this home - to sum up this home - WOW!. Francis will also be decorating the home herself for the tour. When you visit the cottages at Nokara, do not be mistaken that you are still in Port Dalhousie. When you sit in the Muskoka chairs on the back deck and hear the waves lap up from Lake Ontario, you could just as easily be up north at the cottage. These are just teasers of what will be on the tour.

Do not forget the lunch at the Fireside room at St John's Church available both tour days 11:00-3:00 featuring Nokara Farms pies, homemade soups and Starbucks coffee.

The tour is Fri Nov 19 10:00-8:00 and Sat Nov 20 10:00-5:00.

Ticket information and tour guide are available at http://www.nlchometour.com/

We still have spots for volunteeers that can come out and help in the homes for a short shift. All volunteers receive a complimentary ticket for the tour. If interested please contact Carol @ info@viniferafloraldesign.com or Helena at helena@niagaralifecenter.ca

Caroline & Ben

Thanksgiving weekend brought beautiful crisp and sunny weather for Caroline & Ben's wedding. The ceremony was held in the Cave Springs Vineyard. The bride choose red (for obvious reasons) as the base colour for the fall themed flowers. Beyond a doubt, my favourite time of the year for flowers/foliage. In the autumn, flowers produce rich, deep colours and their petals give way to pods and vines load up with berries.

Local flowers were alliums, freesia, sedum, dahlias, ornamental khale, lilies, broom corn and my favourite for this time of year, bittersweet (which is almost local - actually from cottage country just north of Toronto.)

The complete wedding party flew in from Alberta to help celebrate the day. This wedding had the smallest (and best coordinating) bridesmaid of the season. What a fun wedding party this was.

This was the view of the skyline of Toronto from the vineyard on the afternoon of the ceremony.
The vineyard (located on the escarpment bench in Beamsville) produces the grapes for Cave Spring Cellars (www.cavespringcellars.com) in Jordan Village.

The reception was held in the Windows room at Inn On The Twenty in Jordan Village. True to its name, the Windows room has a full wall of floor to ceiling windows which look out over the lagoon and the twenty mile creek. Each season brings it's own unique flavour to the ravine.

Congratulations Caroline & Ben.