Sunshine Coast, BC – Skelton Sketches

Belated Summer Highlights!

Posted on October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 by lindaskelton

Snow is blanketing our world this morning, for the second time this month. It’s high time I record my summer highlights!

This was the summer that almost didn’t come, weatherwise. But perhaps it was just as well to have fewer tantalizing sunny days so that I was able to focus on my projects–getting ready for the big day.

Our eldest daughter, our ‘china doll’, has grown up to become a beautiful bride…

And this was cause for gathering the whole bunch of us for days of summer fun in our favorite places!

…before heading home to savor the last of summer’s glory in our mountain valley…

But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more… O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come. Ps. 71:14, 17-18 ESV

–Linda

Spring Beauties

Posted on May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 by lindaskelton

The winter whose arrival I had begrudged back in October is now history. I captured little of its beauty on camera preferring to keep my gloves on and keep moving… But with the advent of spring sunshine I am back in business. Here are the highlights so far.

The big moment of March was the arrival of grandbaby #8–Madelyn Grace in Powell River! So I had a handy excuse to abandon the snow and get a sneak preview of spring’s finery.

Of course the best bit was baby cuddles and visits with our three daughters…

And spending time with the big brother!

But then there was the sea to savor…

and the picnics and the barbecues and the hikes…

By the time I was ready to fly home Magnolia blooms were dancing in spring’s freshness and I just couldn’t get enough of them!

Now I’m home…

So pleased to find that spring is on the move here too!

God’s world is so full of His beauty!

Thanks for letting me share my corner of it with you ( :

–LS

(How this did not get published until now is a mystery…but here it is belatedly…)

Home again from my tour-de-grandbabies

Posted on February 26, 2018 by lindaskelton

I got home a week ago from my grandma travels, to brilliant morning sun pouring in the front window–a dramatic change after living in ‘the shadow’ of our mountains all winter. It has helped to ease me back into this white winter and a quiet routine devoid of soft baby cheeks and pudgy hands learning pat-a-cake.

Following the visit with the newest grandaughter up north, I had continued my tour-de-grandbabies with a flight back ‘home’ to Powell River to catch up with Jaxon, now 9 months old, and his parents and aunties!

God sent a batch of sunshine that apparently has been long in coming. It made the walks in my favorite places with some of my favorite people all the more special!