These photos are from Rosedale in British Columbia from a friend’s home.
Linking up with Good Fences hosted by TexWisGirl #109.
We’re getting ready for a little road trip over the mountains and through the farmlands of Washington state to our Eastern Washington kid’s home to work on some projects. Hoping to see some fun things to take photos of…
On my neighborhood walk in the Spring these are the flowers and scenes I see with different fences.
The start of my walk on this sunny morning is from the front of our home on the drive that leads out to the neighborhood. That’s our pear tree on the left at the beginning of the drive. Me and my shadow…
This is the first lilac that I pass along my route with white plastic fence sections you can buy at the big box hardware stores.
At the middle of my walk I see these beautiful rhododendrons against a wooden fence. I want to buy one of these varieties for my yard.
Tulips blooming with a wooden fence in the background across the street from the pretty rhoddies.
Home again, home again, chain link fence. This is the back of our property that happens to back up to the street. Our house is backwards where all the other houses in this neighborhood face the street we turn our back on it! We fool a lot of new delivery people. Our home was the first one in this neighborhood tract. Our old house used to be a nursery with no properties around it at all. The streets and the rest of the neighborhood were added when whoever owned this old house sold it for development.
I’m linking up with TexWisGirl for Good Fences. #108
The signs and fences I’m sharing today are all from Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C. taken on Friday March 18th.
We were happy to find Stanley’s at lunch time. We were still full from our hearty breakfast but after walking about we were ready for some refreshment.
May would be another great time of year to visit Stanley Park to enjoy the Rose Gardens. I still have a post with the beautiful flowering trees we enjoyed on this day. After we had our refreshment at Stanley’s we hit the road back to the good ole U.S.A.
I’m linking up with Lesley for signs, signs and with TexWisGirl for Good Fences.
We have another few days of sunny weather here in the Seattle area and there are predictions of the temps getting close to 80 tomorrow!! I’m back in a pattern of walking which is a good thing. I finally got my Senior Sneakers membership card so I will head to a gym nearby to sign up and see how that goes…
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Washington State borders Canada to the north (British Columbia) and it’s great to be able to visit a foreign country so easily that’s not really too foreign since for the most part they speak English and they accept our currency. Dear and I drove up to Vancouver B.C. to enjoy an overnight on St. Patrick’s day. Here are a couple of photos of a wooden fence next to the Totem Poles in Stanley park.
Next week I’ll be sharing a longer post about our adventures in Vancouver and Stanley Park.
I’m linking up to Good Fences #106 with TexWisGirl.
We’re having another great weather day in the Pacific Northwest so I’ll be going out to mow the lawn. I’ll visit later…
My favorite on this group of signs, “Falling Can Be Deadly”, so don’t fall people! This series of signs were taken at the Deception Pass State Park on Whidbey Island in Washington State.
This next sign is on a building on Front Street in Coupeville on Whidbey Island.
I’ll be linking up to signs, signs with Lesley and Good Fences #104 with TexWisGirl.
Dear and I are considering a little getaway to Vancouver B.C. since the U.S. dollar is strong for a change. I hope to take lots of photos of what we see and experience. So excited that Spring is coming! How about you?
This past weekend was our Sisters weekend in Washington State. Two sisters from Washington State and two sisters from California got together for fun and fellowship. Our sister Vera is in the midst of lots of change in her life so we thought it would be good to be together and celebrate being sisters for a weekend.
We started the weekend off with a Raclette meal together on Friday evening. The weather forecast for the weekend was dismal but on Saturday morning we were giddy because the sun was shining and it promised to be a day without rain. We headed north on Interstate 5 to Mount Vernon, Washington to see daffodils in bloom. We were blessed with sunshine all day long. We said thank you to God many times during the day. We had a couple of spontaneous stops before we reached our 1st planned stop in Mount Vernon, Roozengaarde, to muck about in the daffodil fields.
This is the entrance to a beautiful garden at Roozengaarde. Forsythia acts as a natural fence on this side of the tailored garden at Roozengaarde. Soon this garden will be in full bloom with tulips like this photo below from last year.
The sea of yellow in the background are the rows and rows of daffodils.
Besides these signs and fences here is another teaser shot of the fields of daffodils with a fence in the background.
My sisters, Kathy, Lana and Vera.
I’m linking up to signs, signs hosted by Lesley and Good Fences hosted by TexWisGirl.
Today is my recuperating day after all the fun I had with my sisters. Part of recuperating will be getting back on my daily track. Hope your day is going well.
Heading out on my walk on Wednesday I enjoyed this bunch of daffodils in front of this fence.
Further along on the walk I looked to the left and noticed the top of our shop/garage in the distance beyond some fences. It’s the structure that has the window with 8 panes in it.
Before I come to the heart pumping uphill portion of the walk I enjoy this path and fence.
I’m linking up for Good Fences #101 with TexWisGirl.
We are promised another dry day with sunshine and I’m headed out to enjoy it. Hope you all have a good day.
These photos were taken in San Diego along Harbor Drive. We call pigeons rats with wings.
It’s time for Good Fences #100 with TexWisGirl. Click over to see fences/gates from around the world.
Today is my day to go see the tax man. I always like to be on the other side of this appointment. I get to drive Dear’s big truck to the appointment since he took my car to the airport. Hopefully I can find the right keys for the truck. I always like to get money back instead of paying more money in. Do you do your own taxes or do you use an accountant?
This fence is in the town of Coupeville on Whidbey Island. Coupeville is on the shores of Penn Cove. We enjoy the Penn Cove Mussels in this little island town in Washington State. Truth be told it’s the sauce that makes a mussel dish good in my opinion. We’ve enjoyed eating at Front Street Grill in this little town and they serve mussels in a variety of very tasty sauces. One of my favorites is Coconut Green Curry Mussels!
Linking up with TexWisGirl for Good Fences #99!
Soon I hope to take a drive on this island again. We’re having a “sisters” weekend early March and my head is spinning with fun things we can do together. Two sisters in Washington state and the other two sisters in Southern California. We are meeting up in the northwest. I never tried mussels or oysters or much fish to speak of until we moved to the Seattle area. Fish was not something my mother was too familiar with in the kitchen. We also ate kosher growing up so shell fish was taboo.
Hope you have a good Thursday!
These are some of the fences on our walking loop. Dear and I are still heading out most days for a forty minute heart pumping walk in our neighborhood. Dear is working from home these days so I’m happy to have a walking partner. It’s a good computer/reading/housework break for him and for me. We try to get out before or after the rain and sometimes walk in light rain, too.
I’m linking up with Tex*Wis*Girl for Good Fences #98.
On Wednesday I traveled to a large Asian store in Bellevue, Washington, to see if I could find some more items for our Chinese New Year Super Bowl party. I hit the jackpot and found several great additions for our party like almond cookies, fortune cookies, Tsingtao, and lucky coins. There is a Goodwill next store to the Asian Market. I was so disappointed about how overpriced several items were at Goodwill. Sheesh…a used dinner plate for $7.99…really??? I had to search long and hard to find items that were reasonably priced. Goodwill needs a wake up call. Thanks for letting me whine!
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 