Summer of 2011

Apple blossoms in my yard

Icon of design; The Original Bug

Old Car Design

Poppies at The Crow and Gate

Buick Grill

The Trails at Yellowpoint

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I'm getting back at it

It has been almost a year since I have posted... It has been a tough year for some personal reasons.. Spring is here and I am starting to come back out of the last year with some energy renewed. Looking forward to having the camera out and processing some pictures I haven't even looked at yet.

Spring

Spring

We also went to French Creek to pick up fresh Halibut as the season opened while they were here. There were seals resting in the harbour. The pictures below are from Buchart Gardens.




It feels good to have Spring here at last. My parents were here recently and we went down to Buchart Gardens for the day. We had a flash snow storm while there that lasted about 20 minutes. The grounds were beautiful and the greenhouses were a nice spot to spend some time in from the snow.

Winter on the Island

Winter on the Island can change a lot from year to year, from week to week, and even from day to day. All these pictures were taken in December in different years. Last week it was -9 and next week is supposed to be +9. On the island we'll tell you that 5 minutes or 5 miles makes a difference in the weather.

This was last year in my front yard... I thought I was going to lose my Palm trees. They were completely buried in snow for a couple of weeks... They made it back. The eucalyptus took a beating and had to be cut back severely to survive.

Today is Remembrance Day here in Canada and Veteran's Day in the U.S. I wanted to take a moment to remember those who have fought for our freedoms and to thank those who continue to. I also want to express my gratitude to my parents who believe that it was important that we not only saw the beauty of Europe, but that we also saw the images and places of Remembrance of war. Thank you for showing me the truth of concentration camps and walking me through trenches. I am very thankful to have been to Vimy Ridge. The pictures below I took in my very early teens at a concentration camp in Germany. These are memorials to those that lost their lives there. The poppies were photographed this summer in a friends garden. May we Never Forget

finds in the Forest