a visit to the gardens at the governor's house in victoria

bonnie in front of rows of roses and rows of roses and rows of roses...

my favourite new bird bath

bonnie and her birds

my regal seagull on the waterfall!!

graduation flowers

yes, this post is a little delayed, by about 14 days.. but anyways, these are the flowers that i received on graduation day in lieu of being there

a walk in lord stanley's park

a beautiful blue heron contrasting the city behind the lost lagoon. he didn't like me making noise taking this picture...

name this flower! it's beautiful.. build sort of like a hollihock but I've never seen it before... I'd love to know what it's called

the view of West Vancouver from the end of the Lovers Trail at Ferguson Point above Third Beach. (Mom, those bushes around the side are all raspberries!!)

baby swans

Stanley Park acquired three new swans this year. That's right, three baby swans in the park at the lost lagoon (a fresh water pond in the middle of the park). Pretty cool, huh? I sat four feet from one baby swan and her mama this morning upon our two hour walk.

Contemplating coming home... I love Vancouver but if it's not going to give me what I want, then why be here? We'll see how that plays out.

Just found out that you can now go to my facebook page without being a facebook member so you can look at what happens there... or look at pictures, etc.

http://www.facebook.com/crystal.tobin

My graduation lilies are opening up. Give them another day or two and I'll get a picture up.

xoxo

happy graduation

believe it or not, after five years i have officially graduated from the College of Management and Economics at the University of Guelph with an Honours Bachelor of Commerce in Hotel and Tourism Management Co-op. (Long-winded, yes?) These are the beautiful flowers Mom and Dad sent me to commemorate my day!

I'll try to put up another picture mom when these lily's open!

25th birthday at the Lift

It was a beautiful night to sit right on Coal Harbour and watch the rowers on the water. This is a fantastic restaurant!!! Afterwards we walked up to another pub on the water called Carderos and had drinks there while listening to a fantastic guitar player.
Mom: you probably can't see but I'm wearing the earrings you sent me and your pearls!!

a job interview

yes, that's right, crystal has a job interview on friday!

progress is imminent

a birthday

another birthday has come and gone... my first quarter-century is officially over.

nostalgic: no... pressured: yes.

tomorrow's my graduation... can i pretend that i don't have to start my own life?

a patio garden

so Bonnie has been very diligent in her pursuit of fresh vegetables on her Balcony so I thought I would show you how fantastically they are coming along. above is her lettuce with parsely on the left and green onions on the right. these were all planted two weeks ago and the lettuce is already 3 inches high and the green onion sprouts are probably about 5 inches... mind you, the pigeons got quite a few of those seeds.

pigeons also like Bonnie's pepper plant but it is about to blossom. the dill is doing fantastically well! Bonnie already cut it right back once. our summer menu is going to consist of a lot of fish.

this is the ginormous tomato plant! the thing never stops growing and I think we have about 8 sets of buds right now.

and five mini tomatoes!!!!