May On Quadra

Finally photos of our time on Quadra in May. What better way to start than sunrises.

The snow covered peak is called Breast Mountain...

The busy beach and ocean

Fantastic colors and shapes in some drift wood

This driftwood looks like a pair of legs

Kelp dried on to a rock

May seems to be the best month for spotting eagles. This is an eagle nest. We didn't see any eaglets but teenage and adult eagles were all around us.

This fellow looks like he has had a rough day.

Simple beautiful

Keeping an eye on things.

Another beauty

Almost like a dance

Soaring higher and higher

An eagle at dawn

Mia and Doni - neighborhood strolling with glasses of wine.

Evening contemplation

Middle Natch Island at sunset

Unfinished totem pole on its side...this is a whale, the face on the top is its spout.

Truly gross, disgusting, nasty and awful...tent caterpillars. They build their nets and then proceed to chew up the trees.

We got as many tents as we could and then built a fire and cooked them.  Doni is having a caterpillar roast. Lots of fires happening!

The Captain with his favorite toy

Hauling wood from the downed fir

...and from the beach

...to make a fire

...for a picnic.

The sun is setting and a heron is flying by

layers of mountains

Heron on rock

Herons and gulls, note gull with starfish in its mouth.

Buck and Tak in deep discussion

Mitzy and her marshmallow

The neighbors..Wally, Gary, Josie and Buck

John, Mia, Bart and Linda

The guys decide we need another log..

The orchard burn pile

The burnmister at work

Don't you bet the neighbors are happy at this point?

All Done

Mother's Day. Mia with Saoirse and Sarah with Aine

The Walsh family

Aunty Dondon with her Mother's Day card and baby Aine.

Cape Mudge Lighthouse

Lizzy and Dee Lowery came to visit in their camper. We had a great time showing them our island. Last time they visited we had just bought the house and it was in the midst of its first renovation.

At the lighthouse beach

The boys looking for oysetrs

Aloha Lizzy and Dee. They are off to Port Hardy and the ferry to Alaska.

Buck sitting on the big fir tree we lost in the wild March storm. Lucky for us it wasn't near the house.

The tree..it clipped the out house but it's okay. We also have indoor plumbing.

See how large the roots are?

Lovely sunset

Deb, Dave and Mia in the new/improved veggie garden.

Rainbow over Sutil Channel.

Always something going on in the channel.

Another interesting water craft.

Self portrait

Buck has all the fun.

How can something that pretty be a weed?

Chatting in the orchard

Saoirse having a wheelbarrow ride.

Our neighbor Linda and her granddaughter, Arianna

Our totem parts and the rhodos

Scotch Broom another pretty flower but a horrible  pest

Mia and John's house

Flowers in Mia and Johns beautiful garden

Fancy rhubarb, grown for its foliage

Wild brown lilies from Rebecca Spit

Hellebore flowers in my garden.

The Cortez ferry

Our wonderful old Gery Oak tree, planted in 1921.

Baby grape leaves

The end of a day and the end of another wonderful Quadra time.