Happiness is...

• a smart and funny child who makes me smile (she calls me "lady")
• my newish blog title :) (thank you my friends!)
• planting new trees on the old homestead (1 maple and 2 beech)
• discovering that previously planted trees are still alive!! (4 out of 5 maples, a red oak, an eastern pine, many many spruce seedlings)
• having a sister email me several times a day with positive advice and encouragement
• having a good friend spend 3 weeks with me to get me over a tough spell
• marigolds
• gathering enough dead wood for several more campfires
• a cold beer (or two) after mowing lawn around my forest during 30+ humid weather...ahhhhh!
• wandering around Victoria by the Sea with no time restraints; walking out onto the ocean floor when the tide is out!
• RAW FOOD - tonight's dinner is zucchini spaghetti with alfredo sauce made from cashews :)
• buying my very own adjustable wrench!!
• planting kale and lettuce seeds in July - why not?
• time for reading novels (not exactly classic literature if you know what I mean)
• icecream (toffee almond twist - a flavour I can only get on the island - I made it THREE WEEKS before I caved!!
• YOU and YOU and YOU and YOU!! My blogging friends - the best friends in the world!!
• loving myself, believing that I am worthy
• meeting relatives for the first time!! My second cousin Dawn and cousin-in-law Cindy
• travelling to Halifax for the first time - what an amazing city! I love your galleries and museums and especially your thrift/vintage clothing stores!!
• siblings who care
• crows for their entertainment value
• a strong wind that helps keep me cool in this scorching weather AND prevents mosquitoes and flies from landing on me :) :)  now THAT'S happiness!!
• high speed internet which I DON'T have, but wish I did; it took about 15 minutes to upload the following 5 photos - good thing I didn't try for more! 

                                     The tide is out!

                                    I want a turquoise house (in Victoria by the Sea!!)

                                Chocolate should be on the list - it makes me really really really happy!

                                  PEI scenery - the layers and layers in a landscape.

                              Trees, especially the largest tree in PEI!!!     Julie is a tree-hugger but this one was                                                        way too big for her though she tried!  

                                  Ain't she a beaut!?!          

Sunday's Nature Walk = Monday's Photos

I think of all the places Michael and I go hiking, Coldstream is THE most beautiful in the wintertime; especially after a fresh snowfall.

It was pretty cold yesterday, but the fearless photographers

must be ready to "snap" whatever the weather.

Come and walk with us.....

Except for a few streaks of pure white clouds the sky

is a brilliant blue.

Reflections in the stream are crystal clear today.

One fearless photographer!

Come on, follow me!

Ooooooooooooooh, take a peek through here!

Looking back at the fallen tree.

We have to cross the bridge - watch out for trolls!

Sometimes the shadows create a beauty of their own.

Walk out on this ice if you want to find out why

it's called "Coldstream!"

View from the bridge - you better get a shot of this!

Oh no! A troll!....woops, that's only Michael:)

A perfect mirror image.

Don't walk on this ice!

Entering the cedar swamplands.

Stay on the boardwalk!

Here I am, waving at you! Are you having fun yet?

My favourite photo today. Why does it make me think

of Valentine's Day?

What's real and what's a reflection?

Taking a picture of my reflection in Michael's sunglasses:)

Almost finished - one more bridge to cross!

Couldn't resist a diamond-shaped frame:)

Ok, let's get back in the car and thaw out my frozen

fingers and toes. It's only -8c but it feels colder

for some reason. Must be the breeze.

Time to go home and have a hot tea.

I wonder where we'll go next Sunday?

Suggestions?