We waited 1 1/2 hours in line this past weekend for her to go on a 2 minute poney ride. She never complained once. Her smile said it all.
David and I spent the day in Halifax. It was another beautiful day so after a little shopping, we took a walk to the Public Gardens and then explored the adjoining Camp Hill Cemetery. It seems so wrong to say a graveyard is pretty, but this one is.
It is in stark contrast to the Pulic Gardens which are now so open and sunny (thanks to Hurricane Huan) with it’s duck ponds and families throughout. There are well kept paths and park benches scattered amonst the mature trees. I can’t say I’ve spent a lot of time exploring graveyards, but this was the first time I have ever seen headstones placed in circular designs.- Not sure what the relivance of that was, or if it was simply astethic. We found the remains of a few “famous” residents and saw some stones that were more museum-like than one would expect to find in a cemetery.
And not meaning to be in any way disrespectful in any way, and due to the fact that he is, after all a crazy teenager, he wanted a picture of two taken while there.
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“Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.” – Elizabeth Barret Browning
My beautiful Olivia turns 20 today.
Pin this post!Halloween at our house.
The first picture shows abbie sitting in the front entry (dressed in her cheer leader costume)…waiting for kids to come, so she could give pass out the treats… (This was at 3 pm – she had a while to wait.)
Rachel had to work, but could dress up today, so she wore her regular clothes, and added a cowboy hat and went as a cow girl.
Brian took Abbie “trick and treating” and wore David’s costumn from last year.. (Max, from the movie, Where the Wild Things Are.) (I still can’t believe he actually wore it..)
Wishing you all had a fun and safe Halloween!
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Pin this post!Seeing this would be my last day off work for the next week, I really wanted to get back to Victoria Park to take some pictures before the incredible fall colours were gone.
The weather was cloudy (the weather forecast predicted rain in the late afternoon) which was even better for the type of pictures I had in mind, so I nabbed the nearest victim, daughter number 3, who happened to be home and off we went.
The park was nearly empty, (fantastic!) but just as we got out of the car, the rain started. I snapped a few pictures by the brook and then we scurried to the back of the park, near the falls, to wait out the “shower” under one of the shelters. Daughter thought it was terribly funny that I didn’t get to take the pictures that she had finally agreed to have taken.
The “shower” continued for an hour. We had to give up in the end (daughter had to go to work or else I most likely would have been still there waiting for the rain to end)….
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