Cacti Garden in New West

There is a local resident who I would call a cacti officionado. Their front yard is chock a block with hundreds of specimens. From tall columnar succulents down to little seedlings. It's a sight to behold. And it's bloody amazing!
And at the time of this post, they were having a sale.
Do I go back and clean out half their stock or show some constraint . . . ???
[There might be a follow-up post riddled with spiky, thorny close-ups of my new acquisitions...]

After ogling the cacti display, we drove around aimlessly, as we tend to most Sundays and I snapped away at random things through the windshield before we went for coffee.

Some cacti and a bunch of randomness.

successfully growing watermelons in BC?

apparently these are hops

Ford Model A

glass disc insulators

a part of our local starbucks landscaping

Century Garden in Burnaby

Another sunny Sunday. Straight to today's destination. The Century Garden not too far from the Burnaby Village Museum.

Some photos.
After four re-upload attempts, Blogspot insists on uploading the images in reverse order. So...the end is at the beginning and the beginning is at the end. [we'll see if the next post has the same issues . . . ]

keeping the old chimney

major renovations

camperdown elm

entrance walkway grate

Burnaby Village Museum Part One

Another Sunday drive but with a later departure than usual as we were heading to a local destination whose doors didn't open until 11:00 a.m. [closed on Mondays]
The Burnaby Village Museum, once known as 'Heritage Village', Is refered to as an 'open-air museum'.

The village consists of an assortment of herigate and replica building depicting village life in the early 1900s. There are 31 full scale buildings that sit on ten acres of land. When first opened in 1971 it only had 4.3 acres of land. It has grown considerably. The museum was opened by Governor General of Canada at the time the Right Honourable Roland Michener.

We only made it around half of the village - with plans to go back and see the rest in the near future.

Here are some snaps of this visit.