Bob Dylan - It Must Be Santa

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night - and a good year! :)

Saltspring 2013!

 Back to Saltspring Island this year for camping. A place where you can let your freak flag fly. hee hee!

 Lots of interesting little shops with interesting, magical, inspirational thinga-ma-bobs.

 This fellow repairs pianos and they are placed here and there around the island for anyone to play!

 Charming little places like this abound.

 A challenging hike (for me anyway) up a mountain revealed the abode of fairies.

A visit to a place like this helps bring back a little magic into your own life. A bit of inspiration to make things beautiful, and to realize the value in that. Planting a garden, adorning your home, creating some art, or cooking some real and good food is an honorable thing to do.

This 'n that

Just a few pics of what is going on around here:
Lovely radishes just seemed to be glowing pinky-red.

 The three amigos - Max has grown into a mighty boy - he is bigger than both Ozzy and Henry now and isn't done yet! He is very sweet tempered and purrs grandly.

 These two set themselves up like this - a couple of posers.

 I am tickled with my wheel barrow - it is a tapestry of sedum.

March on Monsanto!

May 25, 2013

Our family will be joining the march on Monsanto this Saturday. It is awful to see what corporations are doing to this world of ours. The average citizen can see that messing with the seeds God gave us is craziness. Our corrupt governments are so tied with corporations that they are ruining this earth.

There is much hope if people speak their mind.

Let there be light!

This is a cute video showing the dilemma faced by the incandescent light bulb. The incandescent light bulb casts a warm lovely glow. I read recently that small cracks in the coating of all CFL's emit a harmful light that is damaging to the skin and that you should be sure to put a shade between you and the bulb! This after we were told not to use shades. Arg! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta2ozf_uJJ8

Christmastime!



Max in hats

Peroghy marathon



 

 Winter greens and tree

 These are shots of the BC Provincial museum.

The Old Town section all done up for Christmas

I could live in surroundings like these, so beautiful.

 A visit to Christ Church Cathedral. This stained glass is of The New Jerusalem! Magnificent! On Christmas Eve... Blessings to all! Merry Christmas!

                                              

Looking back, looking ahead

 This years garden was quite a success, with more compost, and also the addition of more flowers and vegetables mixed together. It was a bit unruly, but lush and gorgeous. I cover my newly planted seeds with black plastic nursery trays upturned, to keep the cats from digging them up.

 These foxgloves really took off this year under the shade of the trees.

 This bed was raspberries, sweetpeas, tomatoes, beans, cucumber, parsley, beets, carrots, nasturtiums, and gladiolas in the foreground.

 The front garden is north-facing and planted with more shade loving plants.

 My husband built this bed this year out of driftwood and filled with compost it was very fertile. With peas, arrugula, (which we are still eating in November)lettuce, spinach, pumpkins, cilantro, a volunteer tomato, and all kinds of flowers that my daughter planted from seed in her corner.

So, I saved some seeds for next year. The beans were great and were non GMO, so they will produce true to the original plant, and haven't been tampered with genetically. Looking forward to next years garden, and hope to plant more non-GMO seeds so we can keep harvesting not only good food, but free seeds for the next year!