The last pic is of an artichoke flower from when we drove up to Marsh farms to pick berries.
Rode the bike along The Goose as far as Atkins Station (26 km round trip today!). Harbour & gorge sights as well as update picture of the interchange construction. The last pic is of an artichoke flower from when we drove up to Marsh farms to pick berries.
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Exploring some residential water-view neighborhoods just a few blocks from a major highway. The first pic is of naval (historic) ammunition storage buildings on Cole Island in Esquimalt Harbour.
So, here's what WE do when the car is in for a scheduled service that is expected to take a couple of hours. We find a place to eat! Today was Floyd's turn. Breaky to last the hole day! (We could easily have shared either of those plates. ;))
We also wandered around downtown. Checked out changes to Fort Street & browsed Russell Books. Then, after the car was done we had to test it out - by driving to one of our little beach parks to bake for a bit. Went to Jakes at the Lake for seniors lunch discount! Tubing is the big activity here and on the lazy Cowichan River, but up until now a tuber has been a root vegetable in my vocabulary.
Plus a couple of pics of one of my old stained glass windows that made it to our outdoor gallery balcony. Sunday drive up the peninsula to Sidney by the Sea on a clear day with good Mount Baker views.
One last lunch at The Boondocks before their lease runs out. I saw a coat hook rack a Home Sense that rules, so I bought it (I shopped!) Sunset from Saxe Point Park and from the end of Robert Street in Esquimalt. New look man-cave/craft-shop, because I rebuilt a reclaimed oak light/drafting table.
Real cinnamon rolls have a base of caramelized sugar-cinnamon like the ones served at Oldfield. Wonder what the new owners will do next year? Afternoon breakwater walk included cruise ship mirages as they came out of the Olympic Mountain fog-banks. Every summer Saturday is an informal "Show 'n' Shine" at the breakwater parking lot. We need more electric tour buses and fewer stinkin' diesels! A true Canadian icon - Royal Canadian Mounted Police in dress scarlet uniforms! The mounted Mounties are in Victoria for a couple of performances of their famous Musical Ride this weekend. As a promo, a few of the members were at our legislature grounds today. In late 2008 I took apart an oak drafting/light table that I had used for years in my glass shop. When we left for Australia we left the pieces of the table amongst a lot of our other stuff in Fran's garage in Edmonton. We brought the pieces from there to here in Victoria last month & we re-built said table in our current garage. Of course, to make room for it we had to totally re-arrange my man-cave/craft-shop. I did not have the glass top of the table, so I had to cut thick plate glass to get pieces to fit. One of the glass sheets was being difficult, so I invented a new (to me anyway) technique to break it on the line I scored. I lined up a screw under the score on either edge of the glass & managed to apply the right pressure from above to break the glass where I wanted it to break. Proud moment!
Walked around Ogden Point & along Dallas Road cliffs to Cook Street. Saw prep for an upcoming mural on one the staircases down to the shore. Slowly increasing range & stamina, as I do every new bike riding season. Rode as far as Lochsude School today.
I might start a new internet craze - the napping selfie challenge! LOL. Neighbor Jeff had his telescope set up to watch an image of the eclipse on a cardboard. I totally liked the effect of tree leaf shadows. Temperature drop while the sun was close to totally obscured was quite noticeable.
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