Saison Market Vineyard

If you're ever North of Duncan on a weekend, visit Saison Market Vineyard. Ingrid is from the area and Frederic is from Belgium and combined they make the greatest breads, pastries and little food around. My favorites are the Chocolate Hazelnut Tortiere (~$4) and the Chicken Pot pie (with edamame, around $25 and its big and filling). They are only open weekends and they also have a little market of local herbs, vegetables and preserves. Enjoy!

Painting of a Different Sort - Spare Bedroom

My wife decided to paint the spare bedroom three weeks ago and have it finished before her parents arrived yesterday. Painting a room is similar and different to painting models. You can try out new colors, never know exactly what you're going to get, take time to do it right, benefit from careful attention to detail and have difficulties along the way with both things. You can also play in a room and with a model once you're done. Here's the finished product.

We used the same colors as our main level washroom, light purple and light orange. They were opposing colours on the colour wheel so we tried them out and liked the result, hence using them for the spare bedroom. Also, one wall is purple and the others are orange...the opposite of the bathroom.

As a bit of a backstory, the room before was beige. Everything...walls and ceiling. In fact the entire upper floor walls and ceilings were the same darker beige.We redid the bedroom in a light green and it made a remarkable difference. Here's an example of a beige ceiling...

Here is the new "milky Way" white ceiling.

 And here is one of our two, three legged cats, surveying outside the window and expecting affection for it. Don't worry, he got some rubs and pets on the head.

Hiking in Victoria Area - Thain Rd Quarry

 A friend of mine who likes to hike low incline trails on weekends and days off invited me and my wife for a walk North of Shawnigan Lake. This was in an abandoned quarry half way up on the left hand side off of Thain road. Her website has a review of this and many other walks. Check it out!

 It was an easy walk in with a crumbling paved road.

 The quarry has filled in with water from the owner not using it. The building condition definitely shows that.

 With some sprucing up, it could be either a post-apocalyptic set or an evil villain lair in a spy/action movie.

 There is a trail that leads around the lake but we just sat on the top and had our lunch.

 There were lots of dog owners around and a few ATVers.

We might try the trail one of these days. Definitely one of the many forgotten areas around Victoria, British Columbia.