Sights Of Beautiful British Columbia

I thought I'd share a few more photo's with you from our trip to the Province of British Columbia in Canada.

This was my home for over 30 years.

Most of my children still live there and this is where we go for our summer vacation.

I hope one day you'll get the chance to visit this beautiful Province. It has many faces but these are just a few of the areas these pictures are taken from... Okanagan Valley and the Rogers Pass , Eagle Valley and the Spallumcheen Valley.

I'm linking up with Mary from Little Red House for Mosaic Monday I hope you will pop over and visit Mary and see all the other beautiful mosaics from fellow Bloggers. I know you'll have a wonderful time and you may even make some new friends.

Have a wonderful week!

Maura :)

I'm Leeeeavinggg On A Jet Plaaaane..

Tomorrow morning hubby and I will be doing this.

Not looking forward to it.

I hate standing in line.

Waiting.

This is always a beautiful sight

once all the waiting is done.

Below is the Kelowna British Columbia Canada airport.

That shiny thing you see at the top of the page (above) between the mountains is the first of 2 lakes between Kelowna and Vernon that the highway travels beside.

(that's the highway that we travel winding along the side of the lake.)

These two lake photos are of Kalamalka Lake which means 'lake of many colours'. These photo's do NOT do it justice as the lake turns from jade green, torquoise, navy, bluegreen and green depending on where you are and the light at that moment.

The native indians could not have picked a better name.

Four airports later and an hour car ride we will be at our destination.

And this will be waiting for us.

(Granddaughters Jette and Sailor)

(Our two daughters at a Hawaiian party we had for the grand kids about 5 years ago)

This is Lake Okanagan where my daughter and her family lived up until they started building their new home in the mountains last fall.

We'll visit this place and all their friends on the lake...we have lots of

wonderful memories of family time spent on this spot.

One year we even pulled our boat from Kansas to this lake!

Can't wait to see everyone.

I will be back soon...see you then!

(photo's from the internet except the last two)

Getting Excited

We have 4 days left before we are on our way to

British Columbia Canada.

Where I will see my children and grandchildren!

My Family!

This picture was taken  5 years ago (I have newer ones but they're stuck in my old computer!) The fellow in back with the beard is my Mr Fixit and the lady holding the little girl is my daughter in law.

Since this picture was taken we have two new grandchildren who we haven't seen yet. They were adopted over a year ago.

I'm so excited.

It's been two years since I've seen them all!

These are pictures of the area where my oldest and youngest sons live and my grandkids. This is Echo Lake and is on the side of a mountain just a few miles from town. It is a very beautiful area but they do get 40-60 feet of snowfall per winter.

It's a ski area.

My youngest granddaughter at the time with my oldest daughter before she had a little one of her own.

We'll be doing lots of sight seeing and visiting old places we used to go when the kids were little and taking logging roads up mountains. I'm hoping the huckleberries are still producing further up the mountains. Mr Fixit is a Kansas boy and has never had a huckleberry.

I'm looking forward to seeing clean clear water again

Kansas lake water leaves much to be desired...but it's wet!

I'm busy busy busy trying to get all the last minute things done around the farm before we head out. I hate flying but it takes 3 days to drive up there and we're limited for time this year.

I'm excited to go ...but I'm already anticipating leaving.

And that's always hard to do.

I hope your summer holidays have been good so far. Enjoy what's left of the season!

Take care.

Maura :)