Visit from Mike and family

Mike, Aimee, Avery, Maya and River were in Ontario for a wedding so spent a few days with me. The house was full - full of noise, full of motion, full of toys, full of activity!

The weather wasn't kind, 4 ships hunkered down in the bay, fierce clouds and wind.

 

Mike still challenged them to a swim. Maya's face says it all.

Mike was in first.

There was a lot of screeching from the top of the steps but eventually

first Avery and

and then Maya, braved the frigid water. (Warmer than Waterton Lake in Alberta)

River waited patiently

but insisted she had to go in too.

Declaring "Its not cold"

until she took a wave in the face.

Crazy "westerners". Tradition dictated perch from Knechtels and breakfast at the DDB. On the last day, Maya and I headed to Rock Point (the others were still recovering from fast visits with Aimee's brother, sister and Chris, as well as the wedding)

I do love the abandoned lighthouse.

 

I don't remember seeing scaffolding on it before.

Maya and I did the usual "oohing and aahing" 

at the fossils

embedded 

in the rocks.

She searched for fossils in the loose stones on the beach but they had all been rounded by the wave action.

Then

back to my place and packing up for the flight home.

And suddenly, its quiet, and a lot of laundry.

The sun is lower in the sky

making the lake really glisten.

Duck rafts are forming on the lake, preparing to fly south.

Zoomed in, I think this flock are Mergansers.