So it all sounds a bit mad, end of year. Well of course I am referring to the end of the school year and how this comes around so quickly here the last week in June is when schools end and all of a sudden, June was chock a block!
I did however manage to start snapping some pictures and here is what June brought us here in Canada land. Although this was as far as I am concerned the start of Summer.!
The most bursting with life blossom on any tree, ever! whowee, the tree seemed to small to hold all these flowers.
Really the most perfect of all
and here is the Lilly of the Valley outside my kitchen window, the fragrance is delightful!
It is also 'dandelion season' and they carpeted any stretch of ground they could for a 2 week stretch. Bright yellow and radiant, completely unapologetic for what they will be doing next and that is making the most seeds. But they are rather lovely and I have a new appreciation for them.
The blossom as viewed from Louie's bathroom window.
Just beautiful and ethereal in the condensation of the window
This may seem like a bizarre picture. Need your life vest to navigate life, now that one is turning 21 ? Heck no, this is the present that his dear parents gave him, a clue to....sailing lessons. He was of course was the perfect skipper and managed capsizing drill brilliantly. So yes this was a metaphor for life to come and it looks like he will be just fine. I can officially stand down.
Ah sunsets
The season for Irises is the beginning of June here and they were so lovely and they come in so many colours. (In West Chester PA USA, it was I think in March possibily April that they flower there, talk about big difference)
But they form in a way I found transfixing. So tightly wrapped and silken
and then a blousey finish
I have a new appreciation of them now. May be it was the long over due wait to see colour, from the black and white winter months?
Catkins and abundance is now everywhere.
The skies seem bluer
And colours brighter
A stand of mini irises
and the old favorite peonies
These daisy's caught my eye
as did these friends too
But look at this guy. Truly lovely and so many colours in one flower
Yellow ones
light mauve ones
Honestly it was Iris season and boy did they ever like our wet spring!
It is the variety and formation that drew me to them and they looked so delicate. They don't last long....
Bright peony's too
I thought this was extra funny with its maple "bow"
Biggest dandelion head ever!!!!
Now that's just showing off
Sweet little flowers were everywhere. Our late spring colour was a riot
I liked these. No idea what they are
Elora for the day and I loved the sky and the sharpness of the corner of this building. It was a perfect day
sunshine and actually rather warm and look at these great doors
But ah my friend Iris.Truly a new love. I am already looking forward to next June and seeing their tight buds that reveal the most lovely flower!
But June was just getting going for us and we went on our holiday, the doing nothing people for 2 weeks. Just heaven. Here is the beginning of the adventure in Gananoque (pronounced Gan an knock way)
Welcome to the river. I could literally sit in this spot for days and I did. It was so peaceful and this is quite a busy stretch of the river onto the St Lawrence for people messing about with all sort of river craft. I could sit and hear the rustle of the leaves and watch others being busy and it was wonderful
Lots of Churches in this small town. This is their oldest one, St Andrews Prebyterian, built in 1854
The Old Post Office
Thought that this was rather a neat wall situation
The grumpiest lion
The Town Hall...get the feeling this is a small town. Then you are dead right, it was really tiny. It took a while to work out why people come here, including us. But slowly, once I had fully exercised the need for an apron (that's combing any shop that might potentially sell that kind of an item. That would be none then. Bar the old sale cloth one, way too thick and strap turned into an instrument of torture or the final friend bought from the old pump house that sold a host of home made lovelies. But it would seem that out you need to try on an apron.....before you buy it. This was the moment of giving up and using a safety pin to make the neck at the right size....I literally 'made do' and mended)
Turns out on holiday I like to cook. Nothing fancy mind, just my own stuff....well you need an apron and darned if I found what I wanted. So next time, I am packing my own and spoon as well! Lesson well learnt and as I drove my family mad, I'm sure they will pack one for me.
In this part of the world the architecture is a little different to the part of Southern Ontario that I live in. More stone and older.
Did love the houses. These being a good sea side/river side Victorian double or semi
The house that we rented, was unassuming but lovely
Hallway
Dining room
Upstairs
(Spot the cushion, that is clue to the area that we were staying in and more on that in the next blogit)
Kitchen
(Hence need for the pinny)
we had been here literally 5 seconds.....I would add that all the floors in the house were pitched at at least 2-3 inches and you felt drunk walking around. But it added to the fun of the place and made you feel like you were on a ship on the high seas. Think all that water around us added to that.
Oh boys in the kitchen and Isaac mid sentence.. and the holiday begins
This house up the street really caught my eye. (Damian spotted this on the second week we were there, just say'in) It is the wooden highlights around the windows that made me look.
This managed waterway was a source for lots of photo opportunity and Louie fulfilled his "taking pictures of water" quota
OMG there is something lurking
The boys
"So what do you think, is this a good spot to set up?"
It was lots of fun
and turtles loved this area too
I got mesmerized with reflections and under water
Hard to see what is reflection and what is not
The clock tower. Love those windows showing the inside layout and the staircase to the clock.
Just an abundance of architectural features. This was a B and B up the road from us
That would be what Damian classically called a Muriel....I like the clouds of the 'mural' and the sky being the same!!
Now I am saying this is Winston. What do you think? the boys didn't want it, which is a shame. But also he has an air of creepiness and I had already bought 2 useless aprons! and lets face it, what do you do with such an item. It was however expertly carved from one piece of wood. (This was found in a cafe, or geesey spoon, that in the back room had antiques and the like...so you can eat and shop. Clever and maybe my imaginary emporium would have that. Anyone remember Woolworths cafe...now that was a glorious idea)
Yes I kid you not a "manx pad lock!" in Gananoque (and they running in the right direction too, the legs I mean)
People do like their lovely old cars here
I thought that these looked like jelly fish
Interesting feature
I thought that this was great design on the side of a house, cut in the shingle
Yes we want our food now
That's better.
And back to the park
More reflections and look at that sluice
These were planted around a war memorial
Really quite beautiful
Aren't porches the best
This one was just totally screaming Victorian vacation home...It looks out onto the St Lawrence.
There are so many pictures that I took, I thought that I should break here, as we are now at the end of June and the holiday photo extravaganza continues next time.
