pictorial: the sunshine coast

En route: the green building/visitors' centre at Christina Lake

Nic on the banks of the Similkameen River 

Clay ball factory 

My new gingham shirt 

Eowyn and "Scwuffy"

Eowyn and "Benjamin"

Our campsite near Hedley

Funky wood bark

Rock climbing at the campground

I am a sucker for these old pumps: this one works!

We arrive: with Solomon at Davis Bay

Early morning hike up Soames Hill

View of Gibsons below

First morning on the boat

Nothing like a good game of Uno!

View from my bed

Eowyn's favourite pastime: terrorizing the ducks

Hydrangea!

I've always loved this garage/studio in Gibsons

With Nabi at Henderson Beach

"Look Mom, he can hold it himself!" 

Grace, Eowyn, Nabi and a friend on a cooker of a day

At our old abode...

Commercial Drive got a new playground!

Meeting Emily: I think she's more interested in my BLAT

(The avocado really does add that extra punch)

Both Eowyn and Emily are clearly unenthused

It wouldn't be Vancouver without a trip to Granville Island

I once took an architecture course at Emily Carr and planned a fab art studio for this little park

Eowyn and the Curtain of Glitter

I couldn't stop taking pictures...

Broom factory or witches' lair?

A cement-truck-themed whirlygig, with real cement factory in the background

Made by Hand! That blows my mind, really.

Blurry but no less impressive: towers of fruit at the Public Market

Trying to be artsy

Criss-cross at the Crystal Garden

The Geodesic Gem Room

On our way home: Peaches in Cawston (and a bittersweet reminder of "our" peach tress back in Blockhouse!)

Gorgeous farmland, meet almost-landslide

Add this one to my "love of old-fashioned metal equipment" file

Arriving home: a basil mojito (because what else do you do when you're out of mint?)