Snow Country…

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Winter may be passing where you are but it’s alive and well in Alberta… We’re enjoying the bright skies and brilliant days…and the new home our grandbabies have just moved to…

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…and a pretty little yard complete with sparrow serenade outside the window every morning…

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Actually, the yard is an answer to a Grandmom’s little prayer, complete with a little tree I’ve dubbed ‘Chase’s Tree’…

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I’ve told him to watch it closely and tell me what happens when the snow melts and spring comes…It’ll be something to talk about long distance, and maybe one day there’ll be a little harvest to pick together…

Our travelling companion this trip… (and no, it’s not Photo Shop’d!)
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And here the two big (little) reasons we’ve come out to Snow Country…
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…and big brother turning 3 this summer..
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Delightful!

–LS

Wind-whipped days

Emerging from the shadow of cedar and fir to the seaside road, faces flushed with the vigor of the walk and the briskness of the wind…we paused to take in the glory of the wind-swept ocean reaching away to the snow-frosted mountains…

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…the gulls wheeling and playing in the invigorating rush of wind…

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…our placid strait, transformed into a sea of bedazzling diamonds…

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…the white caps surging in to lend their froth to the wind-driven sand and reckless abandon of a wind-whipped day!

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It was glorious!

The following day, when wind and wave had subsided substantially…we took “Chase Me” for a sail to our best-loved island with kids and friends in tow…
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It was my first sail since the balmy days of summer…and what a sail it was!  Heeling in the wind, tacking back and forth into a lively Northwester, we did at last arrive at our quiet haven…had a jolly wiener roast, a ramble about, and a quite nap nestled close to rock and moss…

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And somewhere along the way my camera battery died… I leave you to imagine the rest ( ;

–LS


“The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.” Ps.16:6