Wings of Paradise

We have two butterfly conservatories within driving distance, one near Niagara Falls, Ontario. A second one, Wings of Paradise, was constructed several years ago in Cambridge, barely a 20 minute drive from here. The building is less spectacular, but it actually has more to offer, with a large collection of preserved insects filling several rooms, and extensive garden tracts and woodland trails for attracting indigenous species in summer. The admission fee is inexpensive, so I take the girls for a visit every winter. We went on March 15. It was a nice reprieve from this drawn-out winter we're having: a hot, humid greenhouse full of living jewels. To see them, you'll have to click your way inside.

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