Easter at the Beach !!!

Girls to the power of six. Our usual four plus by Emma in Ing-Marie.

Seaweed 

 Four cousins and old Bess

 Inspecting dead fish

UBC Law department tricycle race

The little ones showing the professor how it is done.

The little ones waiting their turn to pelt the racers with water balloons.

The Vancouver Aquarium

The Dolphin Show at the Aquarium. What good timing these  lovely creatures have and what strength!

Here are the two dolphins walking along on their tails.

 The see lion... not to be out done!

 and of course the Beluga on it's circuit around the pool.

Stanley Park

 Alice on bench

  Wood Duck

 A contented Mallard

 Two turtles and a Canada Goose

 Turtle and reflexion

 Three ladies

 Alice and nurse log

 Feeding the chickadees

Huckleberry in bloom

 Douglas fir, nurse log and Lily

Alice and exposed roots

A contented Mama

At work and at play in the garden

Much of our time in Vancouver was spent, to the delight of all, mucking about in Meo and Doco's garden. What a treat to get to dig some real earth! Alice and Lily were very quickly hard at play with their dear cousins Molly and Ellen.

Tiger Lilys

Alice and Ellen with Soap Berry

Lily, Molly and Alice with currant

 Alice and Ellen in the sand box

Meo in the raspberries 

Lily and Molly at work on Doco's new garden 

Lily in the Hazelnut with violets

Alice and Meo planting... what were you planting Meo?

Ellen, the water nymph

Easter roses

Alice and her new sandals

Lily and Molly the 'ferocious' wolves

Spring in Vancouver

Alice, Lily and I stole away for Easter and a week of spring  in Vancouver! Our eastern eyes that are so used to white and grey of the Montreal winter were hardly ready for the explosion of blossom and greenery. Such a lovely week we had. Here are some of it's moments...

Depature

We felt a little bit like a family of russinan migrants traveling over the steppes with all their wordly goods. Thankfully we did not have that far to go.
That is our "Paradis Perché" in the background.

La vie au diable vert

 Probably our principal activity of the week-end was playing cards. Many exciting games of racing demons were had once Mummy could get the rules straight!

Here are our fifth and sixth daughters (Taryn and Brianne) who were also and essential part of our trip. Mostly they seem to spend their time getting into just the right outfit for every occasion. Here they are in their fine new hats and scarves knitted by Taï-Taï.

Highlanders