It’s well past Labour Day now and summer is by any stretch, over and done with. What a fantastic summer this was, for some of us, at any rate. It seemed at times that it was endless, July weather starting early May, but of course that was not to be.

The change when it came was sudden and extreme. The rain returned, finally, after months of dryness. Of course Mother Nature couldn’t just send the wet, she also had to send a huge windstorm with it that felled those parched trees and wiped out power to hundreds of thousands over on the mainland (Vancouver). Over here we were fine. Just the rain – the very much welcome rain. Continue reading →