Milkweed

This is, apparently, a milkweed seed pod. Interesting. I’ve never seen one before.

From the Garden

Sunday Morning Walk

I went for a walk this morning and took a route I don’t usually take. Belmont Park is a small, pretty park between two condo properties. It’s very peaceful and, right now, very green. I think I’ll walk through here a little more often.

Chiming In

 

John’s wind chimes, made with assorted bones and the tips of tree planters shovels.

How Canadian Can You Get?

This is a scene played out over and over all across Canada every winter. It doesn’t get any more Canadian than this!

Newer Isn’t Always Better

This old egg beater belonged to John’s mother, and possibly his grandmother. It still works better, and whips cream faster, than my electric hand held beater!

It Snowed Last Night!

We woke up to a white world, but it won’t last. The temperature is 0ºC and forecast to go up to 3ºC today, which means it will all start to melt away.

I Went For A Walk

This past Sunday, John went to work for a few hours and I went for a walk along the greenway, not very far from where we live. The weather was perfect, sunny, almost cloudless, warm… perfect!

So was the scenery.

More pictures will follow.

Golf Course + Rain + Sun =

How great was our timing? This was taken at the Okanagan Golf Club (aka Bear & Quail). We took our chances that the weather was going to clear and it certainly did.

You Know It’s Autumn When…

Here in Kelowna, you know it’s autumn when you see scenes like this all over the Valley.

Taken for a photography assignment (work-related), at Camelot Winery, a new and up and coming winery. These are Riesling grapes, we were told, some of the last to be harvested.

I Love Autumn

There’s just something about a damp, autumn morning walk. The air has that “tang” to it and everything just feels so fresh.

And then there’s the dew…

What is it about Sunflowers?

Nothing else to add.

Out for a Walk

The weather was perfect, not too hot, not at all cold. I was home and decided to take advantage of the opportunity. This was taken at a marsh not too far from where we live. Notice the carp?

Edible!

Shaggy Mane mushrooms. These are edible. Because it’s been very wet here this summer, there are a lot of mushrooms around. Not all of them are edible, but I know these are.

One Organized Teacher

Taken through the local school’s windows. This teacher had one of these gift bags for each of her students. Looking through the door, we could see into her classroom; there was a box of crayons, a pencil and paper on each desk.

And, yes, I said “her”; I can only assume that a teacher that organized simply has to be a woman.

Dilly Dally

Such a delicate looking plant. This, again, was taken in a neighbour’s yard.

Back to the Farm

There is, on our street, one property that is all that remains of an old orchard. John and our landlord (who knows the family from way back) helped the elderly man pick pears yesterday while I explored with my camera.

This tractor was in his neighbour’s yard and, rather obviously, no longer runs. It does, however, make a unique trellis for the vines (pumpkin?).

From Our Museum

A month or so ago, a friend left a box of old bottles on our doorstep. Last week, they were cleaned, a shelf put up outside and the bottles were displayed on the shelf… just in time for my birthday. Thank you, Mike!

In A Little Boy’s World

 

A little boy lives in the suite upstairs. There are times the front “sandbox” (an area that won’t sustain grass so John filled it with a nice thick layer of sand) looks like a parking lot.

Incidentally, in an earlier post, I posted a picture of a bug grasping a pebble. In a comment on that post, Tee suggested that it might be a pine beetle. That started me on a search. I have discovered that it isn’t a pine beetle, but a White Spotted Pine Sawyer beetle. It feeds on dying, dead or decaying pine trees and is indigenous to our area (Washington, British Columbia, Alberta). And yes, as Tee wrote, it has the capability of inflicting a good chomp!

Autumn’s Promise

The grapes are heavy on the vines here in the yard. If this is any indication, it should be a good year for the wine industry here in the Okanagan.