Spring!

The flowers have been around for a few weeks already yet the weather has not been "Springish" at all. That changed today on our extended walk, blue skies, sunshine and the bees were out, doing whatever they do.

Morning

It is March Break, Morning and the sky is blue, light, fluffy clouds and as everyone is away or with the kids, we have no paddle today.

The light filtering through in Karen's room called out for a photoshop moment, so here it is.

It must be Thursday...

Oh Hail the Spring

The start of spring and the weather is so bad at the moment that we had a hailstorm this morning (they had snow in Sechelt on Sunday morning). I rushed out to take a picture of the phenomenon and, as Karen predicted, it stopped immediately.

The Acura is nine years old tomorrow, fifty-one kilometers short of fifty-six thousand.

Happily, it's still water (and hail) proof...

Top of the Hill

The school at the top of School Road, the twenty-one percent hill in Gibsons (I believe they would call that a "one in five" hill back in the UK) - as you can tell, I took the camera on walkabout today.

Benjamin

Ben has adjusted to being the most important member of the household and is now running the show. There was a week or so after his brother, Bill, went missing that he seemed confused about all of it and had lost his appetite.

Who knows what goes on inside an animals head in those circumstances, seventeen years with a little brother and then suddenly, all alone at night.

The task at hand is to keep him happy as he approaches his nineteenth year, find out what he really wants to eat and of course, remind him every day that he is the king.