Seeing Red Big Time

In February, which I must say, feels so very long ago, I dedicated the majority of the month to red items spotted on our walks.  Now on the other side of the rolling year, I had to share these pictures with you.

Yesterday My Beloved came home from his bike ride and told me they are finally flooding the cranberry fields.  Both of us at almost the exact same moment said: "let's go for our walk in Fort Langley tomorrow!"  We've been together so long, we are finishing each other's sentences, that is, if our hearing, or lack there of, doesn't get in the way.  To make a long story longer, that is exactly what we did today.  We took a drive to see them and to take pictures.

The funny thing is, we used to live in Richmond, which when you drove east, the area was loaded with cranberry fields, and to quote my friend Maxwell Smart again, "would you believe . . .", would you believe after living there for almost 35 years, I had never seen the fields flooded.  Well, today was the day.

I am sad to report that they hadn't started vacuuming them up, nor, were the Ocean Spray dudes in hip-waders, sitting on comfy chairs there either.  Oh well, you can't have everything first time out of the shoot now can you?

Here are some of the pictures both My Beloved and I took today.

 Hey, are those the guys???

A funny thing happened after we got back in the car.  We both had black baseball caps on like teenagers, our heads were very close together and while we were looking down at the pictures in the camera, out of the corner of our eye we spotted this white car pulling ever so slowly away from ours which was parked off to the side of the road.   It was the RCMP.   We were laughing and speculating that the officer thought we might be up to no good!  When he pulled along side he probably got a good laugh himself, oh, just two old fuddy- duddies!

After our walk, a bite to eat,  and a trip through an antique shop we drove by the field again and all of the berries had been collared.  I'm thinking tomorrow's the day to skim them off the water and ship them off to Ocean Spray.

HAPPY THURSDAY!