Beautiful Marina

We took our young guy for his rehearsal and had dinner at the Dock pub. Busy place, 6 float planes came and went while we were there.

Picked up some Fettuccine Alfredo at the Old Boot cafe.

Love the consideration for Italians.

Monthly Trip across the water

On the Canada Line (skytrain) from Richmond to Vancouver Center, the stop is at the front door of a new condo being built at Marine Dr. How handy is that?

I counted.  50 % of the passengers are on their screens not even enjoying the view and the population is spit
50/50 from Caucasians and many other nationalities. Amazing change since Expo 86.
As we were coming home from the kids school, we stopped for the smallest baby deer I've seen there, still had spots like Bambi.

As usual, George (Gibson) was dressed for the season, beginning of summer and boating .

Remembering the Rumble Seat

That's what it was called. An 1899 dictionary describes it as," a seat for servants in the rear of a carriage".
Peter and I got to ride in it in our 1948 Ford on a short drive around Crescent Beach.
This local girl was my favourite, she's always loved trucks. She found her 1929 one and her pink boots on eBay and is having a ball.

This bright yellow sticker on the left windshield gave the driver the right to buy 4 gallons of gas during WWII.
This 1956 Chev was like the one Lenny and I drove for our wedding in 1962.

Then the band started up and some cars started their engines to leave and it was LOUD - I thought I was right back in the 60's or on the set of Grease. It was great.

The Glades, A Woodland Garden

Kathy and I enjoyed a stroll through these 5 acres of 1600 mature rhododendrons and companion plants.

                    There are several water features with 4 ponds and 2 waterfalls.

                      This one has Hebe, the Goddess of Youth, pale white in the shrubs.

                          There are waterlilies in bloom and a lonely duckling ( one of twelve) sunning beside the Reflection Pond.in the front lawn. Her mother was in the main large pond created by the original owners.

We passed the Rhododendron Rex, the dinosaur of the species with leaves up to a foot and a half in length.

Then we saw this one which we had never seen before. It has tiny individual flowers with a surprise of the bell shaped one in the middle. 

New to us.

Happy Birthdays

We celebrated Hilda and Charlie's birthdays and added Paul and Bill as well.

We'd celebrated Gaston's at the Tudor last week while Malcolm embellished his card.

             so enjoyed this in the sunshine.

We are so lucky to have such great friends and neighbours.

Crescent Park

We are enjoying beautiful sunshine and visiting neighbours and friends.
I was going down to the Alexandra Festival Sat but got waylaid and drove though the park.

I drove in the back off 28 Ave and it is very rural.  The 3 ponds in the middle are so grown with vegetation you can't really see them all.

When the kids were little the boys would play hockey on the big pond, the girls would figure skate in the middle and the little ones would try to skate or toddle around on the smallest pond.  There were yellow iris at the edge.

Movie Time

Ron and I really enjoy seeing movies in the theater.
We went to

The Grand Budapest Hotel

These were the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. It was interesting but what I enjoyed , most was the incredible architecture and style of that era.

Next we saw                         Bears

 This Disney nature film was amazing. It is the birth and first years of a mother and her 2 cubs. It has everything from digging their way out of the winter hibernation cave.
The majority of "Bears" follows the family’s trek from the majestic, snow-covered mountains (where they narrowly miss being pummeled by an awesome avalanche—at least that’s what the editing suggests) down to sea level to fish for salmon. The cubs tumble down hills and tussle with one another.

Heaven is for Real

 

A four year old boy has a near death experience and describes heaven and say he sat on Jesus lap.
This is a charming movie and I believe it.