Passion Flower

We have another round of passion flowers in bloom on our deck, perhaps a last hurrah to the Indian Summer before fall sets in. Whatever the reason we welcome them.

Last year M accidently cut back the plant but it came back like crazy this year. We added a second plant from the farmers market to balance the arrangement so now we have passion flowers growing like mad down both sides of the deck - looks good. Lil Kormacurry is dressed in passion flower purple today - and looks cute as a button.

The Fall

Not the bristly Manchester band but Autumn. The trees are turning here in the Pacific Northwest, the days are short and the rainclouds are rolling in from the ocean. It's the time of the year to draw in and reflect, re-ignite the gas fire, turn on the radiant heating, re-order cable and brain-storm a season of Powerderhound adventures .. more Blackcomb, Baker and maybe a trip to Batchelor (Da Batch) - we'll see. I'm considering buying a one night a week pass for Cypress Mountain - perhaps the Flemish Economist will do the same so we can have a regular outing to the mountains. Shortly, we'll take Lil Kormacurry around Van Dusen gardens for a tour of the epic fall colours - on a clear day the combinations of colours would send Turner wild.

Talking of Turner, we've been watching a great BBC series called "A Picture Of Britain". It's a tour of the British Isles landscape and the painters who over the last 300 years enchanted the British People's into loving their land. Excellent series - recommend it.

Family Visit

A couple of weeks ago our nieces and nephews came up for a visit. We had good times catching up and exploring the area. First up was a trip to the Gelateria where I threw down a competition "Who get's the most free samples wins". Niece L won with 12 samples! Sugared up we went for a tour of my office which the loved followed by a walk around the pier. At this point Nephew B said "This is insane, do you do this all the time?". "Yes!, my life is 100% insanity dude" ... "Cool!".

Following day we head to the Lynn Canyon for a walk over the suspension bridge, a walk through the woods to a water fall which looks like where Gollum would live. Lots of people jumping into the swimming holes and kids swimming in the freezing river..

On with the insanity, we head over to our friends with a pool for a good few hours of cool down and larking around...

.. Nephew B decided to jam with Wesley Ray .. I swear he's a tiny guitarist in the making. He's got an instance obsession with playing, has pretty good rythmn and all the right moves down already ...

.. Niece H plugged in and played along on bass. She got it down and is hoping to learn bass as a hobby ...

A great weekend which concluded with a trip to the mall to watch Clone Wars, a ride on the skytrain over the Fraser River and delicious meal M made for us. Good times.

Lil' Kormacurry

This is a special post announcing the birth of our little girl - Lil Kormacurry. M and I are over the moon with our greatest creation. She's an adorable little sweetie. The joys of having a family are among us and we're loving it. Three cheers! for Lil Kormacurry, "Hip hip Hooray", "Hip hip Hooray", "Hip hip Hooray"