First storm of the winter

Here are the girls off to school this morning in a beautiful white world. I don't imagine that Oxford or Paris or Vancouver can offer such riches!!

Eric's Birthday

Nous avons fêté les 55 ans de Eric en grand samedi soir avec Aznavour, Barbarah, Brassens, Lhasa, et Silvio Rodrigues à l'honneur grace à Gabriela, Thomas, Mathieu, Maxime, et Alejandro. Un moment de bonheur pur dans la belle maison de Annie et Francis à NDG. Merci merci merci la vie!

Halloween Night

 It is 6pm Halloween night. I have rushed home from work to a dinner ready and waiting. We have just finished our last mouthful and the door-bell begins to ring. Here it comes... the onslaught! Fortunately we are armed and ready. Everyone to their post!

Some decorations from the neighbourhood

My mop ladies escort in the would be trick-or-treaters.

This house across the street always has amazing pumpkins. Here we have Mrs Doubtfire next to her buddy Frankenstein.

 For those that know it, this is the Alligator house, always the best and the wittiest decorations. Not a great picture but it is worth the explanation... This year we have Mr. and Mrs. looking quite undistinguishable one from another - they both have long matted hair and faces that have seen way too much beer and cigarettes. They are in some sort of hunter's shack. They are sleeping with a deer between them, each dreaming -  one of a doll, one of Tin-tin's adventures and one of baby deer horns. One of the sleeping figures does manage to get an arm up to place a treat into the basket of the brave children that make it there. I am sure that that arm is sore today as there was an unrelenting line of willing trick-or-treaters.

 Some fun with our elected officials! Not partisan, there was also a 'solution montréal' poster equally adorned.

Les trois grâces...?

Halloween

Les Bouquetières Mortes...

 Et oui, même les mortes doivent manger un petit déjeuner!

 ... avec les supers bouquets de Marc.

Une Annaelle amochée.

 Lily aussi.

Les deux grâces. 

Alice et Zyana - Une Mexicaine et une Coccinelle.

La mexicana

Things got going early this morning at 5367 Fabre! But at 7:45 we were all out the door cut and powders and otherwise decked out. At 8:15 the mama breathes a sigh of congratulations!

Pumpkin Delight

 Uck! 

Getting the hang of it.

The rue Fabre creations 2014 edition.

Hey ! What's a Taillefer girl doing on the English side??

Lily and half her classmates during their visit of the Stewart Museum on Ile-Sainte-Hélène this Fall, busy re-enacting some embarrassing victory of the English over the French (represented by the other half of the class, all dressed in blue and similarly armed, seen below), under the amused eye of their beloved 5th grade teacher, Mr Pascal.

Summer 2014

This is a bit of a cheat... I am way behind in posting our summer pictures and by the middle of November it is almost too late to bother at all. But with all the great blogging going on in the family these days I feel that I would like to add in some of the highlights of our summer. It helps me to feel that sunshine and mountain meadows are not so far away! So here is a smattering of summer.

Meo and Doco in the meadow - Idaho Peak

Mama going off to tango by the bath house with two girls who rather wish they were coming too.

Alice the pancake cook

Nikkei 20th anniversary

Terry's Japan to New Denver fashion show

 

Lily 'back stage'

Japanese flower arranging with Julia

                         

En Famille à Nemo Creak

Heading off across the lake

Two lake nymphs at Nemo Creak

Breakfast

At the Falls

Nicola

This is my trip to pick up Eric in Merritt and to visit our property in the Nicola Valley and Terese and Dwayne who are care taking there. Dry, hot and very lovely.

Goldie in the sage

Terese and Goldie

 Dwayne and Goldie

The Pit house under construction

The magnificent Nicola Valley