Playing catch-up again...

Yes, I disappeared again. Not only from here, but from Facebook and Twitter as well. My mum came to visit and we were busy most of the time. Now I'm catching up on school work!

Back soon with regular posts. Here, though, are a couple of recent pics:

My delphinium in bloom

Yellow rose on the Green Wall in Roberts Creek


Our turtle dome

That's it for now. Must get out to the deck and start my school work - I love summer!

Teresa

Currently Reading: The Best of Men by Claire Letemendia
Link of the Day: Romance Writer in Residence (TPL) Deborah Cook - aka Claire Delacroix/Claire Cross

Evening walk at Davis Bay...

Sean was home early enough from covering a local council meeting to suggest a walk down at Davis Bay :) I grabbed my camera and tripod and off we went.

It was beautiful down there - tide was either on its way in our out (can't say for sure), but the water was calm and the temperature just perfect. We walked along to the first major bend, then set up the tripod, so I could take a pic of the sun going down:



Here's a view looking the other way - you can see the colour on the logs - so beautiful and I love that my DSLR can pick up such subtleties:



Alongside the path are gorgeous flower beds, so I turned on my macro feature:

As we wandered back towards the car, we noticed a mama duck with ducklings in tow (yet another occasion I longed for a telephoto lens):

The colour in the sky looking towards the south end of Vancouver Island was beautiful too:

Look how peaceful the water was - we truly do live in paradise here:

Hope you enjoyed this brief interlude :)

Teresa

Currently Reading: Lessons in Heartbreak by Cathy Kelly

A post of pics...

First - thanks to those who continued the Blogs of Excellence after being tagged here. If you haven't been by in a while, you might want to check that post (below this one) to see if you made my list :)

Lots going on here - I'm job hunting and also working on final edits to What the Heart Remembers so I can submit it to an editor (unsolicited). Below are some pics I've taken over the last couple of weeks:

Cats in the heat (as promised to Melissa)

Cruise ships on the Strait of Georgia - not far from our house. You'll have to click on the photos to actually see the ships properly - there are three big cruise ships (two side by side on the left) and in the far distance is the ferry heading back from Nanaimo - it's not much more than a white speck, but it was neat to see them all from our little perch:

Gibsons and Davis Bay - the roses are in Gibsons (right across from the Persephone - I do intend to look like a tourist one day soon and take a photo of it. The statue in the background is of George Gibson) while the daisies are in Davis Bay, where Sean and I had lunch yesterday.

Hope you enjoyed this little slice of life on the Coast :)


Teresa

Currently Reading: Journal of My Life During the French Revolution by Grace D. Elliott
Link of the Day: The Beachcombers