From the Niagara Falls Review:
New Brunswick’s Bernie Houle was cold, tired and a little bit wet. He should have been miserable.
Instead, eyes to the sky, he couldn’t stop grinning.
“Seventeen hours of driving to come fly a kite,” he said, yanking the string to his gnarly, nylon creation called Shady. Standing next to him, friend Don Brownridge of Toronto tried getting Petunia off the ground. Once airborne, the two circular kites – “we call them the Spiky Balls,” said Houle – look like weather balloons with attitude.
“It becomes a canvas. It’s just another way of expressing your heart.”
Kites of all shapes and colours will dot the skyline this weekend for the second annual Niagara International Kite Festival. Fliers from as far away as Japan descended on Table Rock Friday to get things started, battling the mist and swirling winds.