"There is a Crack in Everything"

"That's how the light gets in."- Leonard Cohen

Winter is Coming...

Christmas Prictures! Happy Holidays...

 I always look so happy in photographs!

Recent pictures from Galiano Island.

A few more pictures from around Galiano Island. The first landscape is actually from New Brunswick, so credit is due to the picture province on that one. Don't eat the Black Fungus. It just looks tasty, leave it in the forest.

Wild Mushrooms: Chanterelles

Here are a few pictures of some chanterelle mushrooms I found in the forest today. I cooked them with onions and bacon in some chicken broth and had soup. It was good. 

Pumkin Harvest

Whatevr

You can teach a man to fish, but if there are no fish around he still won't be eating.

If your horse is thirsty and there is no water, where does that leave the two of you?

If your bird is is your hand, then you won't be able to shoot the two in the bush, and you won't have dinner.

Top ten signs your new church is actually a cult:

1. Reverend Smith now demands to be addressed as The Grand Smithillion Master. 
2. One Sunday the chapel  is placed on 24/7 lock-down, as a "terrorist precaution", with everyone inside.
3. When #2 happens, nobody seems to mind and everyone shuffles to the front and gets matching robes.
4. The communion wine tastes like crushed up sedative pills. (because it is ACTUALLY filled with crushed up pills, not just because it is bad wine)
5. Instead of a collection basket, everyone signs over all their worldly possessions to The Grand Smithillion Master, because he said it was best for everyone.
6. Your nanny is suddenly being bound to the alter as an impromptu ritual sacrifice, because "he" said it was best for everyone.
7. The choir has been replaced by heavy trance music and the sedative wine is starting to feel REALLY good.
8. Everyone begins sharing weird collective hallucinations. (This still might be a 'normal' church though)
9. There are helicopters circling outside and Reverend Smith insists they are only spraying for beetles, but that he must be going. (With the deeds to all your houses, of course)
10. Instead of tea and cake after church, you wake up in a psych ward with a team of professionals trying to undo the damage done to your mind and soul. Then again, this could be a sign that you just attended a regular church service too.

This is from the IMDB.com list of top 250 Best Movies Ever. It sums up how I feel about the world. It is mostly violent and full of sin, but at the end of the day we're all crazy and it's still a wonderful life!

25.	8.7	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)	304,077
26.	8.7	Psycho (1960)	173,329
27.	8.6	Se7en (1995)	351,627
28.	8.6	It's a Wonderful Life (1946)	120,835

Fun in the Hot Sun

Lots of great sunshine has finally arrived! The giant pumpkins in my garden are loving the heat and growing massive. The tourists have arrived as well, large herds of brightly dressed people wandering the island seeking food and shelter.

I have been fishing out of the kayak on a fairly regular basis and having lots of success. We have been catching big ling cod by the mouth of active pass. There have been a few big ones break the line, and also one energetic cod that flipped himself out of the boat and back into the ocean. Feisty guy.

Yesterday was spent with Salish Sea fishing charter, trolling for salmon in porlier pass. We caught 5 salmon, but mostly babies, and one that was almost legal sized (3-4lbs).

On the west coast of Vancouver island, the inshore fishing is really picking up. Bamfield is in the midst of a large salmon run and it will only get better as this month progresses. I might try to take a trip out the the seabeam lodge again, if they have a rental boat for me.

Summer is here at last and I'm going to make the best of it!

One Fish, Two Fish