Thank you Dennis. I truly LOVE
Canada. All of it. Iāve been to all the provinces. Itās a beautiful country.
Hereās a chunk of cement mixed with rock. To my eyes, it looked pretty.
Thatās exactly what I thought. It was a beautiful rock boulder surrounded by wildflowers. Iām glad Iām not the only person who saw it as beautiful . Thanks Mark. I hope youāre having a nice mini vacation.
Very simplistic but lovely.
Itās gotta be something really darn special if youāre waiting for it before you go. Iām excited for you. Of course youāll be taking your dog. That goes without saying. How long will you be gone for? Dont answer if itās too risky.
Oh my @MarkD. Your photos didnāt show up at first. In fact, your comments didnāt show up until later. I guess they took a while to download.
Do you have 2 dogs? I always thought you had just one. No Border Collie. Ok! These are older photos when you had 2 dogs. I just answered my own question. lol
Thatās a gorgeous photo of your wife. She looks so carefree.
Your picture of the ladybug looks similar to my photo of the bumble bee.
But that last photo is out of this world gorgeous. Look how high up you are on that hilltop(?) Or would you call that a mountain?
We certainly have similar tastes in things or so it seems.
Weāve taken our dogs many places and have never boarded any of them. We wonāt go anywhere they are not allowed.
Stunningly beautiful pics of that stunningly beautiful environment!!!I would enjoy that one too! It reminds me of our visit to Hot Spring Cove in British Columbia back around 1987.
We took the ferry from Vancouver to Naimamo, drove across to the coast and up to Tofino. Got on a motorboat for the last hour to the dock. Then we hiked a beautiful one mile walk through a rain forest on planks before pitching our tents in a primitive camping area. I doubt it works like that any longer. But the hot springs emerge from a spring, tumble down a nine foot falls and then sift through tide pools to the ocean, with every temperature range on offer. Not my photos.
I always thought you had a Border Collie but she looks like a mixture; border collie and something else. I had to laugh when you said she herds people she doesnāt know. Thatās definitely the border collie in her. They instinctively do that.She did very well. I brought her kennel and set it up on my side of the room. She hopped in each night and didn't make a peep even with both of us back and forth to the bathroom all night. I brought the book I'm reading now, The Piano Tuner, and when I was reading it she would lay at my feet. I took this crappy photo of her sleeping at the foot of the chair I read in.
What worked in our favor is the size of the property and the solid fences all around. If people had been opening and closing car or motel room doors a lot she would have been sounding off about it. I really need to work with her about how to meet new people though. We do it all the time on walks but I haven't used the opportunity to train. I will now. But when I first let her out of the care to meet our host, instead of sitting politely in front of her she circled around her low in a herding motion. No offense taken but kind of like a rude child.
One thing about our cottage that delighted me was the windows at the end of the living room above a day bed where just outside in some shrubbery she has placed bird feeders. Usually there were a few large blue and black jays hopping around and they were showier but when they weren't there a greater variety of smaller birds came.
I took this the morning we left of the smaller birds.
The first photo I took of Ember might have been the best. But the one of her sitting with Lia on a bench was fun because of the likeness of their expression.
I hope you enjoyed your lazy day. Much better to take a walk when the appetite for it is there, otherwise you could come to dislike what otherwise is such a source of joy. After our first night there when I got so little sleep we cut our walk short. We came back to the cottage and I read until I napped a little.
The secret to posting more than five photos is to have them hosted elsewhere. There are many alternative for that now but I've had mine on Flickr for a long time and when they finally went commercial I decided to pony up the money but it used to be a person could start a free account at any time. The number of photos those would allow is less but unless you're obsessive (like me) that is still quite a lot of storage.
We live in Berkeley so the drive up to Fort Bragg took about three hours. The new car is so much more comfortable than the 2006 Subaru I'd been driving that I had no problem with discomfort. The drive home involved many more stops but mostly because of my having been two days without taking either of my prostate meds. I was expecting that so no huge deal.
Oh yeah, on our last day in the garden we met a fellow using a walker that Lia took a fancy too. Haven't ordered it yet but it won't be long.
Comodita Tipo All-Terrain Rolling Walker
Thatās it. Very good Mark! The video is very informative. Iām not sure how popular they are here. I donāt remember seeing many of them.
