Cozy Welcoming Space

8/22/2021   Our second stay in six months.  This last Spring we sat in the window seats and watched dramatic sunsets over The Straits of de Haro, snow covered Olympic Mountains and Victoria at the south end of British Columbia’s Vancouver Island and looked forward to early morning visits by a family of deer.  In August we watched a red fox pup who came by early each morning and at sunset to play and hunt…much to the delight of our family’s children and the child in us all.  We picked warm plump blackberries heavy on the vine close to the house that slid off into our buckets and into a blackberry apple crisp baked in the kitchens large Viking stove and oven.  We watched seals playing in the cove, eagles doing flyovers, families of goofy pheasants with head dresses parading by, red fox and black fox coming and going, will return again……