Grizzly Bears

These 3 bears came to visit Christa in her field last weekend. Talk about wildlife viewing close up. She thought the sow was hurt and with her 2 cubs were probably about 2 years old. I am sure they were coming for the cinnamon buns she was baking!

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United Church Thrift Shop..

What a delightful haul I found last Wednesday. My car just turned in automatically and my basket filled up with these wonderful treasures.

Cindy thought that I might have "Pack Rat" tendencies!!!

Imagine that!

The tablecloths are in perfect condition.
The little salt shaker will make a great place to hold the jewelery flowers
I am working on.

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What's in your bag?

I saw this idea on Geninne's blog on July 17th.
 and I wanted to do it as well.
Here is what is in my bag most of the time.
This is the bag I bought at Walmart in the US for $5.00, then spent a couple of days stitching on the design.
My fingers got sore going thru the canvas, but it was fun and a great summer bag.

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Reading glasses, Ipod/Touch and Cell                

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                                     Lipstick, gloss, SPF 50, journal/calender, Mt. Blanc Pen,

Case for my Ipod headphones.

johnmetbetty.etsy.com

                       

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Case I made covering a plastic one, making it look better.
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Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.
Catherine O'Hara

Lost and Found...

Just a few of the things I found along the river bank while we were fishing.

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Messing around in Boats...

There is nothing--absolutely nothing--half so much worth doing--as simply messing about in boats.....

The Wind in the Willows

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Thanks, Cindy for sending on this wonderful photo of Tim in the boat and Emmy swimmimg in the water.

This is what summer is all about.

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Flowers...From Caroline's Garden

        Lilies
                                  

Snapdragon and Spider Web.
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Yellow Clematis
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Seed Pod from Yellow Clematis
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Fly Fishing

Christa and I have talked about this moment for years.

We could have a couple of days together and go fly fishing.

Well, we did it!

I hadn't fly fished for a long time but Christa is a pro.

Got my license for restricted water on-line and here we are fishing the Bull River.

 It looks cold, but it was surprising warm.

We fished for about 3 hours, sadly no  fish was caught or harmed on this river that day.

We did have a wonderful dinner of fish that night.  Kokanee that Christa and Mike caught a few days before I got there.

Thank you Christa, it was a wonderful memory filled day!

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There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

Roderick Haig-Brown, Fisherman's Spring, 1951

Bubbler Fountain...

This beautiful bubbler fountain was made by Evelyne for our sister Caroline's birthday July 25 as a gift from Larry and herself.

Caroline was delighted, and surrounded it with her flowers. Her garden is just like her paintings! She has such an eye for color, form and texture.

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Family, Log Cabin Studio and Dogs..

There are 7 of us kids, and we were all having a great dinner at my sister Evelyne and her husband Richard's place.

The only 2 missing were Steven and Werner.

Staying at Caroline and Larry's Log Cabin Studio was one of the highlights of my visit.

This is a wonderful 4 Star resort. The best thing about it is that the greeting committee is made up of several SPCA rescue dogs, such as  Panda and Hope. Cody is the official greeter.

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Left to Right;

Evelyne, Harry and I in the back,

Center: Caroline

Front: Heinz

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Home away from Home!

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Top photo: Panda

Middle Photo: Cody

Bottom Photo: Hope

Memories from the road trip..

Last week I took a week off and travelled to see my family and friends in Bull River, BC. where I grew up.

I had a wonderful overnight stop with Cindy's in

 Nelson.
I was able to enjoy sleeping in her wonderful "Bunkie" right on the edge of the water.

On to Bull Ruver the next day where I spent a week having fun, taking pictures, flyfishing and having more fun.

Here are some of the photos I took.

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Summer Postcard No.14

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Glass, Water, Currents and Sand

Strong forces to change something that was rough into smooth lake glass.

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Happy Birthday, Layne, enjoying the California sunshine.

Summer Postcard No.13

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Reminders of a gentler time...school swim locker keyes

Summer Postcard No.12

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Truth is rarely written in ink; it lives in nature.

Martin H. Fischer

Summer Postcard No.11

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A girl can never have enough jewelery.

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.

~Anita Loos

Summer Postcard No.10

A Great Summer Time Read.

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In Iranian-American Amirrezvani's lushly orchestrated debut, a comet signals misfortune to the remote 17th-century Persian village where the nameless narrator lives modestly but happily with her parents, both of whom expect to see the 14-year-old married within the year. Her fascination with rug making is a pastime they indulge only for the interim, but her father's untimely death prompts the girl to travel with her mother to the city of Isfahan, where the two live as servants in the opulent home of an uncle—a wealthy rug maker to the Shah. The only marriage proposal now in the offing is a three-month renewable contract with the son of a horse trader. Teetering on poverty and shame, the girl weaves fantasies for her temporary husband's pleasure and exchanges tales with her beleaguered mother until, having mastered the art of making and selling carpets under her uncle's tutelage, she undertakes to free her mother and herself. With journalistic clarity, Amirrezvani describes how to make a carpet knot by knot, and then sell it negotiation by negotiation, guiding readers through workshops and bazaars. Sumptuous imagery and a modern sensibility (despite a preponderance of flowery language and schematic female bonding and male bullying) make this a winning debut.

Summer Postcard No.9

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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

Sam Keen

Summer Postcard No.8

Happy Birthday, Caroline, thanks for the wonderful weekend hospitality!

                                                        Alexander sitting at 6 months.

                    What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance.
They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And most importantly of all
                                                                                    cookies. 

              

Summer Postcard No.7

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Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?

Maurice Maeterlinck

Summer Postcard No.6

Zinna's

From my Garden

Summer Postcard No.5

Maldives

We will be stopping here in the Maldives for 7 days before heading on to Sri Lanka in November.
We have a beach bungalow on the right hand side of the island.
I am really excited about the pictures that I will be able to take and the new experiences we will share.