Silence is Golden

Or at least Silent lake is. (Once more with feeling?) The bugs were baaad and the weather was wet (we went at the end of June this year, for a change), but it takes more than that to dampen our enthusiasm.

Good ol' Site #77 - both in 'real life' and as rendered by Vecais....

And some other SL inspired "Earth Art":


Not least, this was Dz-dzuks' first - although certainly not last - wilderness adventure!

Plus some regular old sherpa-and-beach action...





Small rambunctious people are surpsingly golden, too.

Fourth Generation

Dz hangin' out with the Greats....

Visit

A nice June evening spent with KG, who just happens to also be a brilliant photographer! (She has somehow managed to make us look slightly less exhausted than we are!)




And the lovely photographer herself!

June Sprouts

Of various sorts.

Grass is Greener

Our own local botanical gardens aren't too shabby either...

Have stroller, will travel

So the Sea Slug began her summer of worldly travellerdom with not one, but two trips to Canada's finest city, Montreal (there must have been some sort of discount for academic conference organizers going on this Spring!) While mamuks peddled her scholarly wares, Papuks and DzDz made the most of their working holiday...

Although we all got a night out for scrummy Persian dinner with Tante P, also in town for other academic business...

... and later putting back her Bixi (one of the coolest things about La Belle Ville)



Mamuks and Papuks enjoying a bit of sidewalk cafe lifestyle

Mamuks and Dz waiting by the Jean Talon marche
Papuks and Dz take in the Botanical Gardens


The view from the hotel at night

... et La Belle au Bois Dormant!

And yes, somewhere in there was some academic work, too...