Monday, March 16, 2009

Beaches

This is what the waves at Lawrencetown Beach looked like just a few hours ago. It was a beautiful day as you can see, sunny and about plus 2 degrees. Some nice looking swells!
This would be the new to us and the east coast version of White Rock. The white stuff is hard rock and is found at Martinique Beach where we enjoyed walking for a few hours yesterday.
Beautiful wind swept sand also at Martinique. We have also been loving the blue skies. I think it was George MacDonald who was quoted as saying, "What idea of God could we have without the sky?"


Saskatoon

Driving down Spadina Crescent along the river in Saskatoon. (A picture taken out of our rented car.). We just returned from a trip to visit Marilyn's mom and family who all live in Saskatoon. Temperatures were record breaking. It seems that it had not been this cold in March for 125 years. Yikes! Being of fairly tough stock, we still were able to walk outside daily. And, of course, we had a great time visiting with everyone.

Marilyn with brother, Allen and sister, Brenda. We met at the Mendel Art Gallery for coffee one afternoon.
Mom, at the art gallery conservatory, checking to see if this is a real tree.



These three young women hosted the whole family for a dinner. The person in the back is my niece, Katya, middle one is Mairin, my niece also and Allison is in the front. She is a friend of both these gals. They are housemates.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Comforts

A few days ago Lou was enjoying a good book with the comfort of Stella on his lap...come to think of it, Stella looks quite comfortable as well.

Today we had planned to visit with friends in Halifax. However, as we were travelling along the highway we thought it would be wise to turn back towards home as the freezing rain was intensifying. I decided to make some "comfort" food. One of my favorite granola recipes from "More with Less Cookbook"--Koinonia Granola. Smells wonderful!