The month began with a rainbow stretched across the sky...
a welcome sight after the rain.
Hope for tomorrow...
after a few months of pandemic darkness!
We celebrated our two May birthdays with a Zoom birthday party...
eating ice-cream cake 'together and apart'.
Ranen turned fourteen this year...
Ranen turned fourteen this year...
and for the first time we have no birthday photo of her and Auntie Broni together.
Next year!
May is a busy month on the farm...
...there was always something happening in the fields.
Most of these photos were taken from the back patio...
...as they harvested the first crop of grass.
Plowing and planting...
...and then a few days ago there was more grass to be cut.
Maggie and Lucy had a picnic lunch with grandpa out in the field...
and rode along for a bit.
This time the grass was baled and wrapped.
If you look closely, you will see an eagle sitting on the last bale.
He decided to break into it before it left the field!
On Mother's Day...
...we packed up our bikes and drove to Matsqui for a ride along the dyke.
It was a beautiful warm day for a ride along the Fraser River...
...where we could tell the waters were already rising.
From the dyke trail we carried on to Douglas Taylor Park...
...a trail through woods and pastures
...with beautiful views.
It was about a 30 kilometer round trip...
and included a picnic under the Mission bridge.
As always on Mother's Day...
the irises from my mother's garden were blooming in my flower beds.
I had a nice Mother's Day visit with each of my children...
on my porch or theirs.
A lovely day...
from beginning to end.
from beginning to end.
The following Sunday...
we hiked up a nearby hill.
It may be just a few miles from home...
but I have rarely been there.
We will go again!
We heard the provincial parks were open for day use on the long weekend...
so we packed a picnic lunch and drove to Silver Lake in Hope for the afternoon.
It seems that particular park never got the memo...
since it was closed when we got there.
We found a nice picnic spot beside the Skagit river instead.
Last week we hiked through the community forest on the eastern hillsides...
...a trail through old growth forest hanging with moss.
We have also walked the trails of Cheam Wetlands a few times this month...
...a sanctuary for over 200 species of birds.
Maggie and Lucy joined me there last week...
...as part of their 'home school' Wednesday
We have spent time with the grands at their place or ours...
mostly outdoors...
and have not yet been together with the whole family.
One day we will have the family together again!
We are looking forward to doing some camping this summer...
and decided to give the RV a one-night trial on a nearby mountain where we pasture some cattle every summer.
We might just do that again sometime!
Other than the sound of the rushing creek and the birds singing...
it was totally quiet.
May is a wonderful month to be outside and smell the flowers!
Our honey locust tree is blooming and there's nothing quite like the sweet scent of those blossoms.
As the sun sets on another month...
I have to wonder what June will bring.
2020 has been a year of unexpected events.
I am so thankful that I know Who holds tomorrow.
Thanks for visiting me here on 'My Front Porch'.
