harrison hot springs

 Harrison Hot Springs has a beautiful setting.

And the pools are wonderful too.

five minutes in the garden

The tomato production is out of control.

We are definitely not keeping up.

This was 2/3 of what we uncovered this morning.
Time to get cooking!

stanley park

 Downtown Vancouver

 The totem poles in Stanley Park

 The workmanship is phenomenal

 North Vancouver

 No, it's not the Little Mermaid -

just a swimmer.

Lion's Gate Bridge

harvest

 Harvest has been in full swing for over 2 weeks now.

 The weather has been perfect - hot, dry and windy -

allowing for a lot of straight combining.

We haven't seen many swathers at work this year.

 The straw bales seem to get rolled up just as

soon as the combine moves on.

I love harvest season on the prairies.

lake louise 28 years later

 On our way back to Manitoba

we made a few very important stops.

One was in Lake Louise.

 We stood in this spot while on our honeymoon

28 years ago.

 We took pictures then too, however, we did not know at the time

that our new camera (a wedding gift) was not registering

one - single - picture.

 We made this discovery after we arrived

in Manitoba.

And we were both heartbroken.

We had not understood how the film automatically

wound itself into the camera

and as a result

we had not loaded it correctly.

 So we've never seen the pictures we took of 

Prince Phillip

who was visiting the park to help in the celebration of its

100th year.

Or the picture of me with a real Mountie in red.

Or the pictures of us at Lake Louise.

But now we have those pictures.

We are older

and hopefully wiser

but most definitely

still in love - 

more now than ever.

happy birthday to my husband

Today is Howard's birthday.

I have been blessed to be a part of his birthday for 29 years.

There are moments when I wonder about him.....

(This is, apparently, his idea of a walking stick)

....and his attempts at, dare I say,....humour?

But I can look past that because he actually is

quite funny

and

sensitive

 kind and thoughtful

generous

intelligent

my biggest fan

the world's best dad

and

the person I always want to be with

He loves Jesus

and he shows that to me in many ways

every

single 

day

Happy Birthday to my wonderful and amazing husband.

The years just keep getting better.

I love you!