175/365 Coleus Planter

 174/365 Rain Rain Rain

 173/365 Creating Wonderful Memories

Our backyard has been very, very busy. We had five kids in the pool for swimming lessons today. 

 172/365 Happy Father's Day

To the hardest working dad in the world who is adored by his three children. 

 171/375 The birthday Party

And those amazing cakes their Mom makes. 

 170/365 Lucy

Happy 8th Birthday Lucy! Our spirited red head, gymnast,  swimmer, reader, speller extraordinaire, caring older sister is growing up. 

Her new swimming mask was a hit! So was the lego and the new balance beam. Life is grand! 

 169/365 That's a wrap

Last day of soccer and they got their medals! 

 168/365 Haskap Berry Juice with Mint

David and I stopped in for lunch at Pineridge Hollow post 5k Birdshill Park walk. The plan was to just pick up bread at Hildegards Bakery, but when you are retired, you can act on these whims. :) 

 167/365 Pool Views

I spent a couple of hours floating around the pool with my iPhone today trying to get some unique perspectives so as not to bore you too much. 

 166/365 He Scores!!

 165/365 Splash! 

How much water can 6 teenage boys displace from a pool? Apparently quite a bit! 

 164/365 Helper

 163/365 Emma

Sometimes I am so focused on getting the shot at Jesse' soccer game that I forget this sweet little girl is right beside me cheering him on. 

 162/365 Peek-A-Boo

Found some cherry tomatoes hiding in the greenery. 

 161/365 Goalie

He takes his job very seriously and does a great job! But so cute! 

 160/365 Hail

160/365 Hail
Wasn't that a storm with multiple tornado warnings over a couple of hours. One did touch down about 30 km away. Hail was a good size too and damaged a good number of cars I am sure. We grabbed this one piece to remember.
And so much water!! There is a lake in the park next door and the pool is to the top at one end. The tomatoes took a beating with the 110km/hr winds.
Love a good thunder storm.:) Prefer not to have tornadoes.

 159/365 Red Eye Virio

There has been a Red-eyed Virio singing in the trees in the back yard all day so I grabbed my camera, my long lens and a handful of M&M peanuts because this could take take a while. 

I got out there and set up and he was gone. Not a sound for 15 minutes. 

 158/365 Pool View

Risking my phone over 10 feet of water....again.

 157/365 Lily of the Valley

I have a lot at the back of the yard - a blessing and a curse. It's very healthy. 

 156/365 The Pool

There is something very relaxing about hanging out around water. Another beautiful summer day on the prairies. 

 155/365 Mint

I see some Mojito's in my future. 

 154/365 Summer Memories

This is summer. A swim in the pool followed by supper on the deck and Root Beer Floats

 153/365 Breakaway and a Goal! 

 152/365 Summer is here! 

Emma made the design with the pool rockets and rings. 

 151/365 Pool Fun!

The boy who was terrified of the pool last year. 

 150/365 Cannon Ball

It is pool time. The weather is perfect! Our second season with our pool and we are loving it! 

The kids are too! 

 149/365 The Pool is Open

And this year Jesse is diving under the water, no longer needs his puddle jumpers and will soon be swimming in the deep end. What a huge difference from last year at this time when he would not get in the water.  This weather is amazing!! 

 148/365 When Daddy Gets Home

 147/365 Home just in time for Jesse's soccer game.

 146/365 The Garden is Planted

 145/365 Tulip

 144/365 Water

This is the water fountain in our back yard. 

 143/365 Love flying Delta ~ Back in Canada

 142/365 DFW

I am not sure I could get used to living in such a metropolis as Dallas Fort Worth. 

 141/365 

It was a busy week with lots to do so not much time for photos and I didn't bring the big camera, but Grandpa took this photo of me with two of the grand girls. So happy to have time with them. 

 140/365 So happy to see this girl!! Sunny Texas.

 139/365 Off to Texas

 138/365 New Coffee Table

After searching for a new coffee table for quite some time and not finding the right one, we threw caution to the wind and ordered a hand made, solid walnut table from a fellow on Etsy. It came from Vietnam. We couldn't be happier with this purchase. He sent photos as it was made and shipping was 1 week. Very reasonably priced too. 

 137/365 Hydrangea

First signs of life on the hydrangea

 136/365 New Live

It is very low t his year with the cold temperatures, but it is happening. 

 135/365 Yellow Rumped Warbler

The warblers are back, the trees are budding and the wind is blowing sand, dirt and dust at us at 100km/hr!!
May has been a bit of a disappointment.

 134/354 Yard Work

This is my progress so far. I am trying to clean all the brush from under the trees. I would be out there today but the winds are gusting to 90km/hr so I will just take a photo of what I should be doing. 

 133/365 Soccer

It is soccer season and boy are we seeing improvements in Jesse's soccer playing. He is showing us new moves we didn't know he had. He also seems to really get the game and some strategy this year. Still, always amusing to watch five year olds play soccer.

 132/365 Root Beer Floats

Sooooo yummy! 

 131/365 The Sun

I was face timing Isla at my painting desk since she loves to talk painting and I mentioned that I didn't have a 365 shot of the day. She suggested I take a photo of the sun but I explained that would be difficult to do. However that suggestion did inspire me to look up from my phone to notice the evening sun streaming in the window. So today's 365 is a photo of the sun inspired by Isla. 

 130/365 Celebration

 129/365 Regimental Sergeant Major

Chief Warrant Officer Mark Cortens officially assumes the appointment of Regimental Sergeant-Major of 38 Signal Regiment — one of the highest leadership appointments within a Canadian Army regiment.

 128/365 Haworthia (Zebra)

This 8 year old succulent had long outgrown its good sized pot. It not only had numerous babies, it had great, great grand babies. So today I  pulled the whole thing out of the pot and spilt it up into 5 still good sized pots (this is just one of them)..... We will see over the next month how they survived me breaking  up the clan. 

 127/365 Hello Carson

The kids find it amusing when Carson climbs the edge of the pool, comes out of the water, peeks over the edge at us and then disappears back into the water. Silly Carson. I will try to get a photo of him peeking up over the top but here he is climbing.  

 126/365 Carson

Meet Carson working at 8 feet deep. He is our pool vacuum who we truly appreciate. He cleans well even when the pool is a frigid 6 C. Lucy named him and there is no story behind his name. She just picked Carson. We find it a whole lot easier to just say "Did you put Carson in the pool?". 

He has been busy at work since yesterday and we have been too, scooping leaves and debris from a long winter. The pump is on and the main filters are also working hard. 

Now if the weather would cooperate we would be in business.