drinks

 One of the more interesting and delightfully fun advertising campaigns

or maybe you'd prefer something warming like hot chocolate with marshmallows (personally, I would skip the marshmallows)

umami

easterly things

I have shown this before, but as we have new people to our group, it is worth showing again.  This is a huge Pysanka sculpture.  It is 31 feet long and three and a half storeys high.  A colourful roadside attraction in Alberta.

For our food category this anniversary stamp for Nutella is most delicious

I thought I might be at risk of endlessly repeating myself, but then I found this Easter lily from Barbados

 

 

Happy Easter to all who celebrate

spring

Every day is a new adventure with spring. New growth everywhere. Gardens change almost daily and I look forward to all those firsts: first robin, first snowdrop, first tulip! the magnolias and cherry blossoms, then the fresh brilliant green of new leaves. This is my favourite season.

Hama-rikyū Gardens in Tokyo

fields of tulips near Lisse in the Netherlands

pick your own strawberries

 

 

 

 

Easter also appears in spring, as do these adorable little guys

Spring for Thursday Postcard Hunt

summer

Summer has never been my favourite season. The heat and humidity exhausts me. And, after so looking forward to patio season, the cool, air conditioned interior of any restaurant or cafe draws me inside. And, it seems to be fraught with disasters - fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes... But the gardens are beautiful and lush.

as is the town of Niagara-on-the-Lake

which is festooned with flowers along Queen Street

which is also where you can find several ice cream shops, including this one (which conveniently also sells postcards)

Niagara-on-the-Lake is a tourist town, with its flowers and the Shaw Festival (with three theatres)

Some tourist towns are really quiet beyond the summer, like Tobermory, which is located at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula which divides Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. The little town, with about 1,400 permanent residents, wraps around this harbour.

It has lots of restaurants, art galleries and craft stores, book shops and clothing shops, a well stocked grocery store filled with all your camping needs, and places where you can buy tickets for the several boat tours. But, as a local once remarked, there are no hair salons.

for Thursday Postcard Hunt

katjes

kittens and bier

CATURDAY

flagship

1905-1999  (c 1910)

345 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg. 900,000 square feet. 

The western Canada flagship store for the Eaton's department store.   Demolished in 2003 for a sports arena
 

making breakfast

 

Kellogg's around the world

jellyfish

ice cream

I scream, you scream

we all scream for ice cream

We are having a heatwave - in November! Today will be perfect ice cream weather, 24C

cafe

received from Czech Republic

 Delikomat GmbH and Cafe + Co based in Austria selling vending machines and all things coffee.

(Oh, how I miss sitting in a café)

sprinkles

Cow's Ice Cream

blue

In 2014, tragically, nine blue whales died in the Gulf of St Lawrence. This exhibit from 2017 tells their story with an unprecedented chance to see the skeleton of one of them.

proost

I was introduced to this beer while living in Amsterdam and for some reason I saved a few (empty) bottles and  brought them back as souvenirs. When I got home, I discovered our bottles were a different colour, so of course I had to collect them as well.

pei

home of Cow's Ice Cream

murad

A sun cured tobacco making it more aromatic than smoke cured. (not that I would know — I've never smoked) Is that not one large carton of cigarettes?!  In the early 1900s their ads were created by Rea Irvin who would later become the art editor of The New Yorker.

KVIFF

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival          
the award is the Crystal Globe which has been given out since 1948
July 3 to July 11 ... but not this year :(
One of many thousands of events cancelled the world over

slainte

stay at home for your St Paddy's Day celebrations

yorkdale

the largest shopping mall in the world when it opened in 1964

61 stores in 1 million square feet

and Canada's first indoor mall

Several expansions later, it now has 270 stores in 1,845,725 square feet.

Good luck finding parking for your holiday shopping.

perambulating

I was maybe about Princess Elizabeth's age when a friend of my mother's gave us a pram for me to use. Mine was much larger than hers, being for a real baby and not a doll. Being too small to reach the handle, my poor mother — who was already 42 when I was born — endured the astonished looks and questions from neighbours about another new baby while she pushed it herself with me walking in between her and the carriage.

I remember that it had what may have been uncomfortable boards for the baby/doll to lie on that could be taken out so you could store blankets and extra clothes (or secret stuff?) underneath.

I also remember trying to dress up the cat and take him for walks. In my mind, he loved the experience.

for Sepia Saturday - prams