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

Chicken delight

The girls have spent a great deal of time with the chickens this summer. There is freckles, charlotte, sunny, bob, miss perfect beak, missy, princess, spot, sparkles, fatty patty, mama and of course red the rooster. The chickens are remarkably amiable, allowing themselves to be carted about for hours on end. There are four new baby chicks  that are growing like mad.

Nemo Creek

The exquisite Nemo creek! Visited by Rachel and Eric on their 10th anniversary paddle.

Gabriela en Italie

Gabriela est en voyage en Italie avec son copain Thomas depuis le 18 juin, et voici quelques photos de l'endroit où ils séjournent depuis leur arrivée, chez la mère de Thomas aux abords du Lac de Côme.

This is not Slocan Lake

haha... as we're currently in New Denver, you probably thought this picture is of our dear Slocan Lake, where Muriel, Rachel and the kids go daily for their swim.  But no !  This is a picture from Gabriela who is currently in Italy with her boyfriend Thomas, where they are staying by the Lac de Côme with Thomas' mother and family.

Story time with Meo

Fearsome four on Slocan lake

Fearsome four

Here we have Molly as 'blue bear', Alice as 'green cat', Lily as 'pink bunny' and Ellen as 'red snail'.

Haying time

 left to right: Alice, Ellen, Molly, Lily, Devon, Rayan

Julia and Norbert inside the truck

  

                                        Lily, catching grass hoppers with Julia forking hay

 The barn 

Julia