Fresh from Salt Spring Farms
Perhaps not the enormous, beautiful, genetically modified, greenhouse grown berries you can get at the grocery store, but man they are delicious!
Archives for July 2015
Patient Friends
A visitor waits in the shade of downtown Ganges.
He told me—smiling as he said it—that he’s learning patience from his canine friend.
Wildfire Smoke seen from Mount Erskine Summit
North towards Nanaimo
A tinder dry hike to the Mount Erskine summit reveals the extensive wildfire smoke in the air.
South West toward Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island
* bonus update
Here’s a view of the sun from the ‘clothesline observation platform’ at our house. This is the Sun through some Arbutus branches. I’ve not seen the sky and sun like this. Very smoky up the mountain where we live. Lots of haze down at ocean level, but no smoke smell there tonight.
Behind the Shed
We’ve seen this shed before, but since there’s been a major addition to the scene (artfully arranged ladder and shadow), I just had to share it with you.
Early Morning Visitor
This young buck—crunching and munching through the salal in front of our house—makes an effective 5 am wake up call.
Cameron (the Westie) echoes that. Literally. With gusto.