How many is enough ?

This year in our gardens it has been the year of the hydrangea, and I love hydrangeas.  Last year will be remembered for a great crop of basil and the many salads and pasta suppers with homemade pesto we enjoyed throughout the winter!

This year we didn't cut back the hydrangea bushes so we could see just how big they'd get.  The two at the front of the house grew to a huge wonderful fullness about my height, so about 5 and half feet, and just as wide with hundreds and hundreds of blossoms.  Since we live on a corner lot, they have been on display to all who pass by.  So far I have cut at least a couple of hundred and you'd never know, also a few neighbors have gone home with their arms or bags full.  They are so wonderful to dry and fill the house with flowers for another year. There are 26 in one container on the dining room table !  I just love the mix and shades of burgundy, green, blue, pink, and turquoise.  I have never seen a flower where the colors didn't match and Mother Nature has done it again this year.

The fall rains and winds are starting to damage the flowers so I am so happy to be able to display and enjoy the ones I've picked.  I think I have enough now, but went out again today in search of just a couple more of those special ones just in case..... 

Last weekend

Last Friday night I went to hear a storyteller.  Her name is Hazel Lennox and she spoke at the Women's Resource Centre in Courtenay.  I really enjoyed it and loved how each story took you to another place and time.  I will definitely look for more of this type of entertainment to go to.   

I also enjoyed a music workshop last Saturday with Su Hart.  I went to her workshop last year and went again eager to sing more songs from Africa and share the joy of singing with a group of some familiar and a lot of unfamiliar faces.  It is so nice to go to activities where strangers can come together so quickly and be part of a whole.  We became a new choir for a day, singing harmonies, rounds, and different parts.

It was a great weekend!

Travelling Book Update

Twelve more books left home this week.  Six were mailed off to Saskatchewan and 6 given out here.

The books arrived in the other places they were sent to and have started to be given out.  Still a few more to be given out here over the next month or so.

Love the Sunshine

Enjoying this beautiful sunny day.

We delivered 10 of the travelling books to the Okanagan last week, and another 10 are on the way to Ontario today.

This is fun!

Passing out the books is so much fun, I'm glad I'm not finished yet.

People are so excited to hear about this idea of a travelling book and right away they are thinking about who they will pass it on to.  The excitement in their face is wonderful.

So far several will be going to other places in BC, and others to Ontario, Alberta, and maybe Mexico.