This old chair

A couple of years ago, I found these two old wood folding chairs at a Value Village store in Sydney, Cape Breton. They were both in rough shape, barely sturdy enough for an adult to sit on, but still good enough to display in the garden just for show. After a couple of years of enduring our maritime weather, the blue paint wore off and they ended up falling apart but I managed to salvage one chair out of the two. A couple of coats of white paint and picking the best slats out of the two chairs for the seat, it was good enough to bring one chair back to life.  I'm glad I didn't send them both to the dump but decided to recycle instead...

Yellow buttercups and purple clovers

I don't know if it's because the sun was shining so bright all day today, I couldn't resist finding that the wild flowers (or are they weeds) in the fields all around had such vivid colours. I gathered a few yellow buttercups and purple clovers and created a wonderful little bouquet, set in an old pottery vase that I found in the back porch. It's now the month of July and I can finally say that it feels like summer...

This morning's walk

For this morning's walk, at least the wind wasn't too brisk, just a soft breeze which was a little cool. On the way back it started to drizzle a bit, but with just a light spring jacket, it was still a pleasant stroll up Chapel Cove Rd. It's always a nice walk, either it being a bright and sunny day or a foggy day when you can smell the ocean in the air. I'm hoping we'll see the sun later on, maybe by the end of the week?  

With all this rain

Cape Breton Living's Photo of the Week, June 3, 2011. With all the rain we've been getting in L'Ardoise lately, the grass is turning a bright green. Again today, we are having drizzly weather and I'm sure the grass is even greener. But if we could get warmer temperatures and a bit more sunshine, maybe those little buds in the trees will bring out more of that green colour...

Webcams are back on..

We're back on track, the webcams are updating once again... on the Cape Breton Living website.

West view webcam

Here is a still shot of the west view webcam taken this morning. You might have noticed that the webcams on the Cape Breton Living website has not updated since yesterday at 11:55am. I'm hoping to have this problem resolved soon, so in the meantime, I will post an updated image of the cams here in the blog.   

Around the yard

Today, the sun finally came out after weeks of rain, drizzle, fog, wind and early this morning, thundershowers. In the last few weeks, well for all of our spring season so far, we might have enjoyed 4 or 5 full days where the sun did make an appearance. So finally when the clouds and the fog cleared up by late afternoon today, I grabbed my camera and got busy out in the yard snapping pictures of that beautiful warm sunshine making everything look so bright and colourful. My lilac tree (or is it a bush) needed this bit of sunshine. Soon I'll be able to enjoy a freshly picked bouquet of these purple flowers on my kitchen table. I'm hoping that the month of June will bring more sunny days than rainy and foggy ones...