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Day 244 – Shades of White

244/365 (Sept 1, 2011) – I can’t believe it’s the first day of September! Fall is just around the corner but summer only just got here. Seems unfair. This calls for dinner at the Keg and a nice hunk of sourdough bread before a perfectly seared bacon wrapped filet. I seem to be a day behind on everything right now!

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Day 242 – The Writing is on the Wall

242/365 (August 30, 2011) – No! Don’t take down the umbrellas! Summer isn’t over yet! Not for a few weeks yet. But why is it that as the end of August is upon us, and as school is about to start back again, that we all decide it is fall? Well, the sun is setting earlier and rising later, the…

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Day 234 – Drip Dry

234/365 (August 22, 2011) – It rained today, for the first time in several weeks. We had such a long, cold, wet, miserable spring and early summer, and, strangely, the rain was refreshing. I know the plants enjoyed the drink. And the rain seemed somehow fitting today on another front. It was the first day the Cohen Commission hearings were…

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Day 231 – Morning Fog in Steveston

231/365 (August 19, 2011) – Today was my flex day and I took full advantage of the fact that it was sunny. I jumped on the motorcycle and rode to work with Kirk. Because there was a bit or morning fog left around the river, I puttered around Steveston for a bit before heading off to the USA to pick…

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Day 213 – BC Day on Mount Seymour

213/365 (August 1, 2011) – Mt. Baker is in the distance, it’s August 1st, and yes, those are piles of snow, as yet unmelted.

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Day 206 – Could have used this yesterday

206/365 (July 25, 2011) – But our one day of summer seems to have come and gone already.

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Day 198 – Out of the Darkness

198/365 (July 17, 2011) – It’s been gloomy lately.

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Day 194 – Something I’d like to ignore

194/365 (July 13, 2011) – My Mom insisted on sending down this giant urn because she didn’t know what to do with it.

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Day 182 – Happy Canada Day!

182/365 (July 1, 2011) – Canada Day today, our 144th birthday as a country. And the sun even paid us a visit.

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Day 181 – Late Again!

181/365 (June 30, 2011) – No, not me, I’m talking about summer.

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