New pictures

I have been very lax in posting pictures.  These new ones are from three different outings.  The first group are taken at the Buddhist temple we visited right here in Richmond on Sept. 8. It is really a beautiful place. Maybe not as pretty as Temple Square, but nice.   Then there are some pictures from Steveston Village on Oct 14.  You have seen Steveston Village before, but these were taken at sunset and give a different perspective.  After those you will see some from a park we visited in Victoria near the University of Victoria on October 27th.  The beautiful flowers were gone, but the fall colors were nice.  Then there are some additional pictures of Victoria taken the same day. Then there are a few more pictures of the Graigdarroch Castle.   I emailed a few of them a while ago but I am posting them plus some new ones.  I haven't taken any pictures since then because it is really pretty dreary here right now.

Steveston Village at Sunset

I don't remember the name of this park, but it is right by the University of Victoria. There seem to be beautiful parks all over British Columbia. Of course they don't have to spend a fortune on water as we would in Utah. I have no idea why there is this huge space here. If anyone knows a more user friendly blog program let me know.

Victoria harbor during the day

Victoria is the capital of British Columbia. This is the Parlaiment Building which is lit up every night. It is right across the street from Victoria harbor where I took these other pictures.

I sent some pictures of this castle earlier. Here are a few more. It is the Craigdarroch Castle which is a legendary landmark in Victoria.

Hmmmm I don't know if you really want to see this. I think it is interesting.

I would rather not end on that picture, so here is a picture of our sweet and humble Chinese Sisters. We love them so much and they are such great missionaries.


With love, Elder Harding

Salt Spring Island

It has been a few weeks since we were at Salt Spring Island but I have finally put together some pictures that I took on our trip.  These are about 10% of all I took but I don't want to take too much of your time and hopefully will give you a feel of what we experienced.

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We started pretty early in the morning to catch a ferry. This is a sunrise, not sunset



We passed this ferry that was just like ours.

Since I had never ridden a ferry before I was quite interested in how they packed in the cars and how the ferry docked and unloaded.

 

 

We took the large ferry to the main island and this smaller one to Salt Spring Island.

This is our first closeup view of Salt Spring Island. What a cute little church. 

  How would it be to have your own private boat dock in your back yard.


Now we are on the island 
This is the same church we saw at a distance.


This is one of the little roadside stands where people sell their home made jams, cookies, eggs, vegetables and whatever.  This was a very dry summer, which was good in many ways, but unfortunately the island was not as green as it usually is.


But still very pretty





We saw an art class painting an old barn at a farm.

In town there was a fair that day and they have a market every Saturday with all kinds of booths
with all sorts of crafts and art.

I thought this budding little artist was so cute. I can't see children without thinking of our beautiful grandchildren.


I don't understand how the tide works, but we seem to be at low tide wherever we go.


Our group minus Elder Jones.  I will give names later.


You know how I love water and boats.

These next pictures were taken at the Branch President's house where we had a barbeque the afternoon we arrived. He had a nice home, I don't know how much it is worth, but the view off his back deck is worth a million dollars. Obviously a 5X7 can't begin to catch the beauty of this.




This is our group: left to right Elder & Sister Jones, Sisters Hancock &Wyndley who work in the employment center, Us, Elder & Sister Boehmer and their investigator Charlene, President & Sister Tilleman & Sarah, the branch president President & Sister Gibbon.


This is a picture of their church building. They are so pleased to have it. Before this was built about 10 years ago they had to take a ferry ride to Duncan on Vancouver island.  We told you the the chapel has no pews, just padded folding chairs which they take up for activities. It is laid out so it can be added on to in the back if they ever need to. But that might be a while since they only get about 25 or so out to sacrament meeting.  The branch isn't much larger than that.