Summertime blooms displaying God's glory here in our front flower bed. There were eleven buds yet to open!

A weekend of fishing and hooking daddy into doing all of mommy's tasks :) while she celebrated her sister's birthday.

....then reptiles! Courageous but ready to have this one removed.

And even touching it! Yes mommy wore one too - they're really smooth...hence the sales of snake skin shoes, purses....

Celebrating Joan's birthday (guess what her favourite veggie is - I think it's the best excuse for eating salt and butter:)

We drove hours, then up a logging road and hiked partially down the mountainside to reach this oasis of hot springs. Great for soothing aches and pains of work, cherry picking....


Gideon felt it was a little hot!

Thankfully the river was available to cool off in.