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16/09/2010

Sooke Potholes

Sooke

Sooke Potholes Provincial Park
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We dry camped at Sooke Potholes Provincial Park for about three days, during our Vacation. We had glorious hot and sunny weather. We found the campsite clean and very quite, especially at night.

Please click on the Starfish for a map of the island

Sooke Potholes Provincial Park provides access to the series of deep, polished rock pools and potholes carved naturally into the bedrock of the Sooke River. This area is a favourite day-use destination for many local and regional residents.

"Glacial action during the last ice age 15,000 years ago is responsible for the formations, as the moving, melting ice packs stripped the surface area and carved a path deep into the natural bedrock. Huge boulders carried along by the rushing river became lodged, were swirled against the canyon walls and consequently carved out the potholes that can be seen today.

The water in this very popular park is beautifully clean and clear, providing a wonderful swimming and picnicking destination in the summer. The Sooke River is also an important coho and Chinook salmon spawning river, and opportunities exist for catch and release fishing. Sooke Potholes Provincial Park provides an ideal location to view the annual salmon spawning run." - Sooke Potholes Provincial Park

The clear pools were great to cool off on a hot day. Please click on on photos. Nikon D70 ©

The dogs loved the cold water and swam around just for the fun of it. Please click on on photos. Nikon D70 ©

Who needs a Tube? Please click on on photos. Nikon D70 ©

Boerewors Braai and pap. South-African Barbecue. Please click on on photos. Nikon D70 ©

Starfish

"Boerewors is a sausage, popular in South African cuisine. The name comes from the Afrikaans words boer ("farmer") and wors ("sausage"), and is pronounced [ˈbuːrəvors] in Afrikaans, with a trilled /r/. " - Wikipedia

"The word braai (plural braaie) is Afrikaans for "barbecue" or "roast" and is a social custom in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Zambia. It originated with the Afrikaner people,^[1] but has since been adopted by South Africans of many ethnic backgrounds. The word vleis is Afrikaans for "meat"." - Wikipedia

Boerewors, “Braai-sous” (sauce), eggs and pap. South-African Barbecue Please click on photos. Nikon D70 ©

"Pap (pronounced /ˈpɑːp/), a traditional porridge made from mielie-meal (ground maize or other grain), is a staple food of the Bantu inhabitants of South Africa (the Afrikaans word pap is taken from Dutch and simply means "porridge" or "gruel"). Many traditional South African dishes include pap, such as smooth maize meal porridge (also called slap pap), pap with a very thick consistency that can be held in the hand(stywe pap) and a more dry crumbly phutu pap." Wikipedia

View from our Camper Trailer ( Caravan) at Sooke Potholes Provincial Park Please click on on photos. Nikon D70 ©

Our Camper Trailer ( Caravan) at Sooke Potholes Provincial Park B.C was very dry and there were fire-bans almost everywhere. Please click on on photos. Nikon D70 ©


Vacation	Campin’ Trip	White Rock	Water
2010	2010	2010	Taxi


Granville	One More	Coastal	Vancouver
Island	Sushi	Celebration	2009

Sep 16, 2010 12:00:00 AM | 2010, August, B.C., British Collumbia, Camping, Canada, Dogs, nature, Photos, summer, Travel, Vacation, Vacations

28/07/2010

Horses

We were fortunate to see some beautiful horses on our way to the Ghost River Wilderness area in Alberta. Nikon D70 © Please click on thumb-nail.

Nikon D70 © Please click on thumb-nail.

“Wild horses” or “feral horses”? The debate rages on in Alberta, Canada. The provincial government believes that the wild horses west of Sundre, Alberta are the descendants of domestic horses used in logging and guiding/outfitting operations in the early 1900’s. The Wild Horse Society of Alberta (WHOAS) believes that they are of Spanish descent. WHOAS is so sure of this that they have sent away DNA samples to the University of Texas, Equine Genetics Lab for testing.” - Wild Horses Of Alberta

You can read more about the Wild Horses Of Alberta.

Sunset Guiding has Wild Horse Photography trips.

06/07/2010

Abandoned

We saw this old car on our way to the mountains. Water-valley vicinity. Canada Day Please click on thumbnails. Nikon D70 © I wonder what it woulds say if it could talk.

We also saw these two old GMC and Ford trucks Water-valley vicinity. Canada Day Please click on thumbnails. Nikon D70 ©

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Truck

Every dog has it's day (The first two photos of the above truck in winter)

Show and Shine

Jul 6, 2010 12:00:00 AM | Photos, prairies, summer, trucks

29/06/2010

28/06/2010

My Hobbies

My Scrapbook albums The third album is filling up fast Please click on thumb-nails Nikon D70 ©

My Scrapbook albums Please click on thumb-nails Nikon D70 ©

View from the side. Please click on thumb-nails. Nikon D70 ©

I tie ribbons to the ring binder in the same color as the layout, to mark the pages so that I can find them easier. Please click on thumb-nails Nikon D70 ©

I got a this idea from the book, "Making Family Journals" by Linda Blinn

books

My bookshelf With photo albums in the bottom row. Nikon D70 ©

Albums

Here is a shelf with some more of our photo albums.

One of my albums with negatives in sleeves. I also have boxes filled with negatives.

album

Our first year in Canada album with Post card style journaling.

Craft room

My Craft-room I use glass sheets to flatten and protect my work. Nikon D70 18mm ©

I try to always tidy up my workspace before I start a new scrapbook layout. This is what it looked like before. I use an empty tissue-box for the little scraps that I throw away. I use a lot of mounting squares.

Another before shot. Jay! I just got a Hypotrochoid art set. I have started on some more collage backgrounds, which are being flattened under glass sheets.

shelf

view

View from my window in winter on a misty day. Calgary, Alberta, Canada Please click on the thumb-nail Nikon D70 © Exposure: 1/100 sec Aperture: 11.0 Focal Length: 18mm Please click on the thumb-nail

View from my window Chinook November 2008 Please click on thumb-nail

computer

My Workspace Nikon D70 © Dell laptop, Dell Inspiron computer, Dell monitor, Epson Perfection 1260 Flatbed scanner, which was my first scanner and has a 35mm adapter for slides and negatives, hpinkjet 1012 black and white printer On a side table is a Epson RX 595 color printer/scanner.

"Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things." ~ Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal

My Memory Box I got the idea to make a Memory Box from Kingfisher2 Don't you love hers?

I used this beautiful box that I received as a gift from a friend.

This is the inside of the box, isn’t it beautiful ?
I love blue, flowers, butterflies and dragonflies.

Some of the things I have put inside, that are too big to go into my scrapbooks. My daughter in law, who scrap-books, suggested that I make notes of the contents and their meaning. I am a retired Ballet and modern dancing teacher, the one pair is my first satin ballet shoes and the other is the last pair I bought. We visited South-Africa in 2007 and had a meal at the "Spur" Restaurant, my father wrote a message, dated and signed on the back of the Stella Artois coaster. Sand from beaches,white gloves from when I taught mime, special cards, my parents gave me a set of castanets when I was very young. Do you have a memory box? What is your Hobby? I would love to hear.

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Creative Organizing Magnetic Board Notice Boards

Jun 28, 2010 12:00:00 AM | Photos, Scrapbooking

17/06/2010

Dim Sum

Photo from Urban Spoon

"Dim sum is a type of Chinese dish that involves small individual portions of food, usually served in a small steamer basket or on a small plate.'"- Wikipedia