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Colour of Spring
I’ve been trying to decide what is the colour of spring. Around here, I have to say it is ‘yellow’. All kinds of flowering plants are showing up in yellow.
This is Mahonia, or Oregon Grape from my garden.
Daffodils, of course.
Dandelions popping up everywhere.
This is forsythia. There are other colours showing up now, but yellow is predominant so far.
What do you see where you live? Drop me a comment and let me know.
Slow recovery
I came down with a cold a week ago, and it became one of the worst colds I can remember. No fever, or chills. But a total wipeout in terms of energy, and a cough that won’t quit, no matter what I use to treat it with.
Meanwhile, my job is to keep writing my new novel. 🙂
Don’t you love it? This new book is about some of the creeks up the coast of Vancouver Island. They have names like — Cat’s Ear, Sir Donald, Dead Man, Perseverance. I’m not sure who came up with these names, but they have really drawn me in. Now I have to come up with a story about them.
Fun, eh?
First Skiff of Snow
I can’t believe it but we’ve already had our first skiff of snow. It started yesterday, snowing, then raining (melting the snow), then sunny, and back again. We have the strangest weather that blows through. Then it snowed again, then stopped. Here is what I found this morning
We have some micro-climates around us. Today it was pelting rain on the uphill side of the house. But when I looked out the window of the same room, toward the downhill side, it was sunny and clear. Rained like that for about an hour, but clear out the other window.
How do you explain that? I can’t. 🙂
Did You Go to the Fall Fair?
If there is a fall fair near you, I highly recommend you go. It’s outdoors, so safer from Covid, the weather could turn to autumn at any time but right now it’s probably not as hot as it was, the animal pens are so much fun. And the food! Elephant ears, anyone? Plus handicrafts everywhere.
We went to the Saanich Fair on Vancouver Island yesterday. It is one of the longest running fairs, dating back 154 years. The local farmers all participate– draught horses, cows, llamas, goats, sheep, poultry of every kind from tiny quail to large crowing roosters! It was quite a sight.
There were thousands of people. The rides ranged from a giant swing that would probably make me puke if I went on it, to cute bumper cars and ‘the sizzler’- seats that twirl round and round as they swing by. The craft tables hosted a lot of handmade shawls and scarves of angora. Some of that wool was so soft, you couldn’t even tell you were touching it.
Lots of fun. What fair do you go to? The summer isn’t officially over until you’ve been to the local fair!
