“I’m a very early riser, and I don’t like to miss that beautiful early morning light”.
David Hockney
I was up early yesterday and this was the view from our windows. Just had to take a shot (or two)…
Not bad…
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Tags: Mount Baker, Photo, Vista
“Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.”
Rudyard Kipling
I make no apologies for posting more photos of the garden. This is – after all – its very best time of the year…
Tags: British Columbia, Gardens, Photo, Spring
Should you feel inclined to glance back over the archives to this blog, paying particular attention to the entries posted at the start of May each year, you will find a pattern; one post each year (at the very least) that looks remarkably similar to that posted the year before… and the year before that…
The reason for this somewhat repetitive annual ritual is simple: each year at around this time I venture forth into the garden and am brought up short by the beauties that nature has taken it upon herself to bestow upon us – quite regardless of the fact that – but a few weeks prior to the event – the whole thing looked a complete shambles.
All I can do each year is to exclaim – “Wow!” – and to scurry inside again to fetch a camera. I absolutely must take some photos – and absolutely must thereafter post them to this journal for the gentle readers’ delectation.
Enjoy!
Tags: British Columbia, Gardens, Photo, Spring
We have been blessed of late – here at the southern end of Vancouver Island – with a spell of good weather. The sun has shone upon our gardens and the temperature during the afternoons has several times crept into the 20s C. This is not expected to continue of course – it is still only April after all – but we have been enjoying it all the same. Next week it will rain!
The Girl – having been suffering a little cabin fever – suggested last weekend that we should go out somewhere for a walk. We have done plenty of such exercise in the immediate vicinity of our home, but getting away to somewhere else completely seemed like a good idea – in the service of our mental well-being.
The Girl suggested Witty’s Lagoon – one of the many bits of Victoria that she knows of old but that I have not yet visited. We duly set out for the southern-most tip off the island on Saturday last – taking the Olympus OM-D with us so that I could share photos with you good folk.
A short walk from the main entrance to the park – as one begins one’s descent to the lagoon – one comes across an excellent waterfall – Sitting Lady Falls. I leave it to the gentle reader to muse upon how that name might have come about:
The extensive but shallow lagoon lies behind the beach and is the point at which fresh and salt water come together. The result is a wildlife paradise:
The beach itself is unusual for the southern end of the island in that it is sandy; many of them are pebble. As is the case with other similarly located beaches the vista is of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and beyond that the Olympic mountains in Washington State of the US:
Pretty (spectacular) – ain’t it?!
Tags: Photo, Victoria, Walk, Witty's Lagoon
“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
E. Joseph Cossman
So very much has happened in the last year; it is difficult sometimes to ‘get one’s head around it’. These photos were taken a year apart! Where would I rather be?…
Tags: Holiday, Mexico, Photo, Snow, Sunshine, Victoria, Weather, winter
“Snow makes a soft bed, but no man wakes from it. That was the wisdom of the North”.
Mark Lawrence
Some days – particularly at this time of year – the cold morning air is so clear that we get a quite startlingly sharp vista of Mount Baker and the mountain ranges that surround it.
At such time – even though my humble camera is unable to do the prospect justice – I can’t resist photographing it…
…or posting the results!
Tags: Mount Baker, Photo, Vista
“I painted it because I dreamed it
because we all dreamed it”
The Little Boy and the Painter
I promised some before and after images of the exterior decoration of our lovely house.
Ta-dah!…
Here are some before and after shots (double-click to enlarge):
The stucco colour is still light – we want the house to stay cool in summer – but the colours are much warmer. The woodwork at the front was previously stained but is now a fetching shade of ‘Stonehenge Greige’ (don’t ask – but it’s all the rage!).
More ‘after’ shots:
Tags: Home, House, Photo, Renovation
I wrote a piece within these pages back at the start of the year (well – February!) on the general subject of my level of fitness – and what it took to keep things that way. I made reference to having just restarted attendance at the fitness class of which I have been a regular pretty much since we came to Canada.
Of course, not long after I committed those musings to the digital equivalent of print, the COVID-19 pandemic broke and everything was turned upside down. The fitness class moved onto Zoom and was executed in the safety of our own living rooms. When restrictions eased a little as the summer unfolded we reverted to meeting ‘in person’ at the Shoal Centre in Sidney (a community ‘hub’ for ‘seniors’) where we undertook carefully socially-distanced classes wearing masks and with extravagant but necessary health precautions.
These classes have continued since then, but on each day when the weather permits – ie when it is not raining or snowing! – we have taken to exercising in the park across the road from the centre. This is not only much safer but it is also considerably more pleasant.
I took most of these pictures between exercises during yesterday’s class.
A few autumnal images from recent fall walks here on fabulous Vancouver Island.
It is no secret that autumn is not my favourite time of year, but one cannot deny that the season brings many beautiful things and if one wants variety – then fill your boots! Sometimes it looks like this:
…but at others it looks like this:
Tags: Autumn, British Columbia, Photo, Vancouver Island
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