Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron
Fresh Daisies
On our morning walk in the highlands yesterday, Cameron and I were looking to see if a first Daisy had reared it’s pretty head. And this little bunch was first up, just in time for Mother’s Day.
This is an iPhone snapshot; wasn’t sure it would work—even for the web—as the flowers were doing a little dance in the wind.
Turns out that when you have an island, people tend to want to live on the edge.
And this home does that. And it checks a lot of boxes: 180 degree view, waterfront, all-day light, privacy, etc.
(the etc. includes a guest house, a huge shop with meeting room/studio, acres of forest and pasture; you know…lots of good stuff).
The Salt Spring Market is underway.
And it looks like Molly’s got her hands full this year at the Bullock Lake Farm Stand.
It’s great to see young people enthusiastically taking on the farming business.
Bullock Lake operates partly on a community share agriculture (CSA) model;
find out how it works at Bullock Lake.
p.s.
I heard the new addition is named Larkin. She’s a cutie.
A beautiful hillside seen during Saturday’s lengthy dog walk.
The Saturna Ecological Education Centre (SEEC) is an experiential, place-based ecological learning centre on beautiful Saturna Island, British Columbia. SEEC is part of School District 64, Gulf Islands.
Above is the multi-purpose building, one of several fun SEEC structures in ‘Haggis Hollow’—and all of them built ‘off-kilter’. This week’s ‘Saturday Home’.
I was surprised to learn that the wood stove in this building heats, by way of underground pipes, the other SEEC buildings.
From the SEEC website:
Our high school students live and learn in funky little cabins within the alder forest of Haggis Farm. This unique, locally-designed facility is totally off-the-grid and powered by our own micro-hydro and solar power systems. It features two six-bunk cabins (one for each gender), washroom huts, a caretaker’s cabin and a main multi-purpose building that serves as a kitchen, dining hall, classroom and meeting area. Our students learn how to live and work together to look after the site and take responsibility for their own comforts and needs by chopping wood, making fires in the wood stove, cooking, cleaning, maintaining the facilities, and working on legacy projects that add new features to the Hollow like our challenge course, disc golf course, brick walkways, rock garden and landscaping.