Sweet Summer

I'd been absent for quite a while, in fact I feel like my blogging skills are a little rusty and I guess I will have to relearn how to tweak things, move it here, move it there and all that stuff to make my postings look better than they actually are. Like everybody in this part of the globe, I'm taking a sweet and well-deserved summer break. I've already taken a couple of little trips here and there and I'm taking another one next week. I can't afford to get out of the country so I'd been doing a little staycation, trying to pretend (in a good way) that I'm helping local tourism by being a tourist in our community.

The weather is just fabulous, sometimes it's too painful to be stuck indoors. Thankfully, the days are a little longer than in most parts of the year so a little trip here and there helps cut the boredom of routine work life. Here are some of the photos from some of my little walks around the neighbourhood.



Cherry Blossoms in the Spring (I know this post should be about summer, but whatever, these flowers are pretty).



Some lovely wildflowers on roadsides and trails. I love these little wild daises, really ordinary but if you pay more attention and really look at them closely, they are quite stunning. I'm not sure who said it but they kind of remind me of the saying "Simplicity is elegance".



I guess these tough little beauties can teach us a thing or two about perseverance.



I must have a thing about purple, I didn't even know that.



Seriously, people should get over their love-hate relationship against these cheerful dandelions. Ever seen a field full of dandelions? Does it not remind you of a scene from Anne of Green Gables?



The now abandoned Anne Hathaway Conference Centre tucked in an obscure yet charming corner of Esquimalt. I think they used it to shoot the movie Ella Enchanted. Anyway, I took the photo because of the rosemary in bloom. Think lamb chops, rosemary and feta foccaccia, grilled sword fish with rosemary and lemon vinaigrette... oh la la!



And these guys are flowers from an apple or plum tree somewhere right beside the trail to Witty's Lagoon in Metchosin. There are lots of these trees in that area, they must have been planted there by early settlers or perhaps by former residents before it became a park.