Saint Vincent de Paul

I found these placemats and napkins in his thrift shop in Vancouver:



Can anyone identify the double-P (or PD) logo?

We made it home!

The squirrel greeted us by eating a piece of bread on top of his nest:



Thanks buddy. We are glad to see you too.

Beach finds

Blue glass:



Sea dime:



Some nice stones, nicely arranged:



Piece of a super day-glo buoy:



Greg conquered this barrel:



It has barnacles and stuff on it!





Must have been in the sea for a while. I wonder what it contained. It's empty now.

Clear glass:



Driftwood for our wood collection:



An oyster shell!



Magnificent.

We got bumped from our flight back to New York

Cathay Pacific gave us a hotel room, food vouchers worth $230, and...






















It was pretty much worth it.

We fly home Saturday night.

We went to the beach!

The Pacific Ocean. It was AWESOME.



Me doing my thing (I was in heaven):



Glaciers did this:



Did woodpeckers make these holes I wonder?



Greggy says this is a sea otter pathway:



I wonder how this log got those cuts. Some logging thing?



Above the sea. A little grassy area...



...visited by rabbits!



Man, they got some big kelp!





And...we saw a seal! Ri-i-i-i-ght...THERE:

Huh.

I found a papier-maché bunny in the snow yesterday.

Thirty seconds after we arrived in Powell River...

...Greg's mom had this "snack" plate ready:



And they just kept a-coming.

Birds in the yard!

On the west coast they have real blue jays (not gray jays, as in the east). Check them out—they look really different:

Christmas morning tracks in the snow

Deer friends.

Northwesterly journey

BC Ferries breakfast ($8.06):



Seeing the west coast for the first time (drinking two coffees):



The misty view:



Back on the road:



Greggy drives. Yay for CBC radio!



I just sit around...



...taking pictures:



Powell River! Mother and son:

"Old Fort," the famous Canadian cheese

Poll: Do you get this joke?

Vancouver.dot.com.

They got crochet buses here!!!

I bought a bag of Rs!

Very exciting.

This dog...

...hates you, me, and himself.

Why

This sign is supposed to communicate the fact that there are cameras at the intersections that will snap a pic of your licence plate if you run a red light:



But why in god's name did they choose a pictograph of a camera that has BEEN OBSOLETE for ONE HUNDRED YEARS?!??? Bewildering.

Guffaw!!

I just discovered this picture on Greg's camera:

Kitties

When we arrived we couldn't find the two kitties anywhere in the apartment. Eventually I found Minnow in the paper shredder box.





Aw.

I have still only seen Rumble for a split second; he stays in his nest under the bed when we are around. He snuck out in the night to eat his food.