It's Imported

Let’s go for a walk…

4 01 2013

Not wanting the new year to get started just sitting around all day, Jim suggested we take Cork for a walk on Spanish Banks New Year’s Day afternoon. Fleece, our other dog, had been for a long run earlier. Spanish Banks is a series of beaches along the shore of English Bay that are popular for walking, biking, picnicking, swimming volleyball and other beach sports. There are great views of English Bay, West Vancouver and beyond and Downtown Vancouver.

We also saw logs, flowers and barnacles and seaweed on rocks.

We even saw a few “polar bears” out taking the plunge.

Cork was happy to be out and so was I.

Comments : 6 Comments »

Categories : Dogs, Holidays, Nature, Shells, Spanish Banks, Vancouver

Happy New Year…Cheeseball

3 01 2013

Along with the black-eyed peas, cornbread and champagne the Cheeseball is a holiday tradition in our family. It had humble beginnings back in the late sixties when my dad decided to combine chopped pecans and several of the cheeses that were left over from the holiday baskets we had received into a ball. Served with Triscuits, it was a welcome addition to the New Year’s Day snacks. Over the years the Cheeseball evolved as Dad started making it (them) without gift basket cheeses but with various combinations of cheese, spices and the always present pecans. The Cheeseball started appearing at Christmas as well as New Year’s and eventually became his and Mom’s gift, along with a package of cocktail napkins and a spreader, to many of their friends over the years. Some of my friends have even received a Morris Nunley Cheeseball.

It is up to me now to carry the tradition of the Cheeseball into the future. So I consulted the recipe of sorts that Dad wrote down for me when Jim and I got married 31years ago and I made a Cheeseball to share with our new neighbors on New Year’s Day.

It was good but not the same as if Dad had made it. I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it with practice.

Comments : 2 Comments »

Categories : Family, Food, Holidays

Passion

1 10 2012

Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants, the namesakes of the family Passifloraceae. They are mostly vines, with some being shrubs, and a few species being herbaceous.(Wikipedia)

Comments : Leave a Comment »

Categories : Flowers, Nature, Vancouver

My “run” this morning…

27 09 2012

was actually a walk in the morning sunshine with my camera rather than a run before dawn with my husband and the dogs.

Comments : 3 Comments »

Categories : Flowers, Nature, Urban Gardening, Vancouver

Bloom Overload

27 08 2012

Having two dogs requires me to get out often during the day for walks which often lead to a park. The George Wainborn Park along the sea wall at the end of Richards Street is a favorite destination especially when the flowers look like this.

This last one isn’t of flowers but they were along for the walk and wanted to be included.

Comments : 4 Comments »

Categories : Flowers, Nature, Vancouver

Visitors

10 08 2012

Last weekend my sister in law and her family came up from the Seattle area for a visit. She and her husband have three girls, we call them the BG’s, not to be confused with the BeeGees. Their last name starts with a B and the G is for girls. Fortunately, the sun has finally arrived in Vancouver for the summer so we had glorious weather for roaming around the city, picnicking and watching the fireworks on Saturday night.

Comments : 2 Comments »

Categories : Dogs, Family, Flowers, Vancouver

Am I Blue?

29 06 2012

No, I’m not but it is “blue”day over at Poppytalk. Since I continue to be stymied in my use of Flickr due to my technological ineptness I will share a few bits of blue here today.