FARHILLS ON THE LAKE
Memories and moments in the garden of an old house lost in Canada
In the spring of 2023, I started a project to capture a sense of the old summer house where our family has created so many moments. I had ambitious visions of making a bigger garden. The garden would form a loose subject through which I planned to capture the moods of the spring to fall arc of our lives. It sounds pretentious written like this, and I do hope it is anything but pretentious. Life at this old house is simple, based in day to day tasks. It is those unremarkable moments that I shall try to notice and photograph. Easier said than done perhaps.
PS. I’ve also challenged myself to learn how to use video. If you wish to see what I’ve been learning to create, please check here
June 20
Driving through Hope BC in west coast drizzle to Shuswap Lake. The faithful little tug on the lake.
June 5-8
Off on a little road trip to BC’s West Kootenays
June 8
Morning coffee stop at the village of Edgewood near the Needles Ferry, Slocan Lake BC with a swallow singing
June 5&6
Sandon is the resting place of Brill buses that worked on electricity. Ding the bell, next stop please.
May 30 2023
Lilacs and lupines both blooming in the garden. I picked a large bundle of both and had a glorious morning photographing them. For containers I used two large kettles that have been in the house before I can remember. They would have come to the house when my granny bought this house in about 1942. One is aluminum, the other a butter cream enamel. They would have been used on the wood stove for many years until we got power. Now they are vases for the flowers we grow.
May 7th 2023
The morning after King Charles’ coronation, it was softly raining, enough to keep me indoors. Having watched the ceremonies through my night, I was in a mood of nostalgia and anglophilia on top of being tired. Before long my camera came out and I was capturing little bits from the living room. My granny’s tea pot seemed fitting and the kettle was on.
May 2nd 2023
The word was out, asparagus was ready in Armstrong BC. This brief moment of perfect asparagus compelled us to leave our own gardening work and head to Armstrong. We visited several stands and brought back two precious pounds.
April 10th, 2023
Why not roast hotdogs on the beach? Bundle up, it’s April and we are hungry for lunch
April 17, 2023
Rhubarb is daring to poke out of the cold ground.
