Tag Archives: Canada

Thankful

Posted on October 9, 2016 by

I’m thankful for a world still full of beauty and goodness, a country that values democracy and freedom of all a community that protects nature and all living things a family that stays in touch and shares their lives with … Continue reading →

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Happy Canada Day

Posted on July 1, 2016 by

I liken Canada to a garden. . . a garden into which have been transplanted the hardiest and brightest flowers from many lands, each retaining in its new environment the best qualities for which it was loved and prized in … Continue reading →

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Transplanted

Posted on April 16, 2016 by

I liken Canada to a garden. . . a garden into which have been transplanted the hardiest and brightest flowers from many lands, each retaining in its new environment the best qualities for which it was loved and prized in … Continue reading →

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Dogwood Tree In Bloom

Posted on April 15, 2016 by

Western Flowering Dogwood Cornus nuttallii Grow only in the southwest corner of BC and California. Flower is our provincial emblem, greenish-white heads each surrounded by four – seven showy, white petal-like pointed bracts. Blooms in May, sometimes in September. At … Continue reading →

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Integrity

Posted on December 11, 2015 by

Integrity: An old-fashioned word and quality, it seems. Definition: ‘1. the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, moral uprightness. 2. the state of being whole and undivided, unified, unimpaired, internal consistency or lack of corruption.’ Integrity used … Continue reading →

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I’m A Winner

Posted on August 6, 2015 by

I’m so excited. I won the Red,White and Green prize draw on Buy Canadian First website.  Some of the prizes I’ve received so far. All made in Canada by Canadian Companies.  All winners! Check out their great website. Buy Canadian First

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Buy Canadian, eh

Posted on July 21, 2015 by

I’m so excited, I just won an online contest on Buy Canadian First dot ca.  It’s a great site showing Canadian made products.  Come on Canada, support our local producers and BUY CANADIAN, eh.

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The Killing Woods

Posted on November 26, 2014 by

Chain saws laugh as giants fall all around screaming their shock as they thud to earth. Hundreds of years of memories severed from roots that drew nourishment from the earth before Canada was born. Now lie barren levelled without a … Continue reading →

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Saskatchewan Sunday

Posted on November 2, 2014 by

Look at those green hills, watch out for road kills, meadow lark trills such a big sky of blue driving through grasslands with you. Wild flowers, black loam, antelope roam, police only in town on Thursdays Skunk Butte Trails enthusiasm … Continue reading →

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Laughter In The Apple Tree

Posted on October 28, 2014 by

Remember the big old moss-covered apple tree up by the road, the one I let you climb because I thought it was dead and you couldn’t hurt it. Today I was cutting the grass around the base of that old … Continue reading →

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