road trip

A fine spring-like day

by Carol Browne on February 6, 2012 · 2 comments

in Photos, Vancouver

Spring is happening a bit earlier than I ever expected. At least, it sure feels like spring. The sun has been up before 8 am this week and then it’s been sunny. Chilly, but sunny! It looks like it’s going to last another day, but just in case it didn’t, I pried myself from my desk, hopped the Canada Line to Yaletown and hoped to find some little seedlings sprouting. I didn’t find any, but I did find this mangy, pink, flower, though.
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In their backyard

by Carol Browne on August 15, 2010 · 4 comments

in Family and Buddies, Photos

Yesterday we went up to Squamish for a dinner potluck at Annie and Brad’s place. They have a beautiful home right near the river and the photo above is their backyard. Yup. They planted a wildflower mix – their backyard is all sorts of flowers – daisies, black-eyed Susans and some other pretty ones I’m not sure the names of. So that settles it – next year, the front yard and back yard are going to be wildflower mixes.

We also met Annie’s 19 year old kitty named Coco.
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Our trip to Fake Holland

by Carol Browne on April 3, 2010 · 8 comments

in Family and Buddies, Festivities, Photos

We got up really early this morning – at 5:30 – and hit the road about an hour later. It wasn’t too tough to get out of our cozy bed after the big storm last night because we were on our way to the United States. Rather than going to LaConner, I decided we should go to Roozengaarde in Mount Vernon. Just a side note – good going Roozengaarde for getting “tulips.com”. Excellent scoop on that domain name. They either snagged that early on or paid big bucks for it.

At our stop at the Border Crossing into the US, the guard was friendly.

US Border Guard looking at our passports: Where are you going today?

Me: To the Tulip Festival in Mt. Vernon!

US Border Guard: Oh no, Mike! How did she convince you to do that?

The border crossing at 7:00 am was about 45 minutes. Not bad – especially compared to yesterday.

We only had to drive about an hour past the border and into the countryside of Washington State. The weather was totally unstable – we hit rain, then hail, then overcast skies during that drive. I just hoped that we’d be able to get a break in the rain so we could take photos without having to haul out the umbrella or spend hours in the car waiting for it to stop raining.

Once we got to the display garden (with the windmill) the rain had passed for the time being and we all got our photos on:
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