Happy Days are Here Again!

Yes, Michael is now on his way to PEI!!  I'll be picking him up at the airport in Charlottetown at 12:11pm! That gives us the afternoon to explore Charlottetown and then have dinner at our favorite restaurant - Gahan's!

Although we always peruse the menu carefully we ALWAYS get their famous fish and chips in a paper bag! Not exactly a meal for my current nutritional eating plan but who the hell cares!! It's a celebration! :)

And of course a specially handcrafted Gahan's beer from their basement microbrewery helps wash it all down!

Oh yes, I'm a happy girl today! The sun is shining and I was up to watch it rise around 5:30am. And I get to hug my man today - he's the best hugger ever! He's so excited to get here!

 This is a pic of the sun setting last night over the Northumberland Straits - gorgeous!

And here it is again, less than 8 hours later coming back up!! Magical!
Gotta run - places to go, people to meet!!

Weekend at the Trailer in Bayfield

So much is growing at my trailer in Bayfield, like my golden spirea.
We've visited a couple of times to rake and clean up but this is the first weekend we could stay overnight. We can turn the electricity on ourselves but have to wait for the water to be turned on. Most trailers, like mine, only have uninsulated plastic pipes for the bathroom and kitchen so in the fall we have to get our trailers winterized with the water drained and antifreeze added. But on Saturday someone came by and turned on our water for us so we are now in business until the end of October!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

I think this is my pink azalea bush.
Over the years I have planted a lot of flowering bushes, a tree or two and some perennials. I don't have the room to do much at my condo so it just revives me so much to go to the trailer and watch my plants grow. A week goes by between my visits so there is always so much to see. As soon as I arrive at the trailer I "survey my land" before entering the trailer and setting up. It fills up my well!

This is my climbing hydrangea - I just planted it last year and I can't believe how much it has grown - I just love it. I'm hoping it will eventually grow and hang over top of my rustic little shed. A piece will be taken to PEI this summer!

Sweet woodruff - I will dig some of this hardy plant up and take it
to PEI. It has sweet little white flowers and is pretty durable and spreads nicely to fill up those empty spaces.

This is my healthy looking lilac tree. This is its third summer and I really hope it blooms this year. It gets lots of healthy glossy green leaves but no blossoms. I'm starting to get a complex.

By the end of Saturday the sun was struggling through increasingly overcast skies. What, more rain?? Yes, it did rain a little while I was sleeping as I woke up to a few puddles. Usually I hear the rain as it hits the tin roof pretty loudly but I slept right though it. Too bad for me as I really love listening to the rain, especially the thunder storms! Nothing I enjoy better than being all tucked up cozy inside the trailer with a good book and an afghan, a cup of tea (or glass of wine) while the wind howls, the lightning flashes, the thunder booms and the rain pounds down on the roof. I have a huge front porch that I can sit on during rainstorms too and still be protected.

Every visit to the trailer means a trip to the lookout point to capture the sunset. This is my first of the season and it wasn't that great due to the clouds moving in.  Weather rolls in quickly across Lake Huron and it can blow up a storm REALLY fast - I have been caught in a few downpours.
Hello to my friends on the other side of the lake!!

No night is complete without a single malt by the firepit! I kept this fire going from about 3 or 4 in the afternoon til about midnight! I read until I couldn't see the print of the newspaper any longer, then I just gazed into the flames and thought about how sweet it is to have a place where I can unwind, only an hour from the city but it feels like I'm an ocean away from the noise, the traffic and the pollution.

I came across these white flowers growing close to the ground on my Sunday walk, not sure what they are.

There is a ton of driftwood and whole tree trunks all over the beach right now, flotsam from the spring thaw. By summer's end most will have disappeared, burned up in bonfire's all over the beach. For now they make interesting sculptures or a great place to sit or recline with a book.

Lake Huron is pretty rocky. There are inviting sandy beaches but you need water shoes on when you go into the water. Once you're out a ways it gets sandy again but many a stubbed toe is saved by wearing shoes.

In the middle of the sand, something is green and thriving.

Lots of logs around help to get me across the many little rivers of spring melt and rain that have sprung up here and there.
Sunday continued to be rainy and overcast so I snuggled in my bed and
watched a couple of DVDs on my laptop before once more heading
back into the city.
Until next time............