As I began my last day on the island, I came across a place called French Country Fabric Creations. The owner made beautiful table cloths and linens from French cottons. I did purchase a tablecloth which is outside in the garden now... I'll show you it on a later post.
The gate leading into one of her flower gardens left a beautiful morning shadow.
Her house was modeled after Marie Antoinette's Versailles hideaway in the south of France.
This property also had beautiful garden and old decorations... The people on the island love their deer, but not in their flower gardens. I was intrigued by the chicken wire fences made beautiful with old wooden embellishments.
A beautiful hand made gate...
And the lavender drying in a back shed... this was a favorite moment, opening this door and smelling all the plants...
A lower field of lavender and hundreds of bee's humming in delight, I think...
I head south for Ruckle Park.
On my feet again, I find one little beach after another.
My favorite tennies. I really need to get rid of them, they are so worn and old, but I love them!
Ahhhh... the blue of the water, the soft lapping on the rocks, the ever-changing patterns.
A self-portrait...
An old stone church.
The gate into Salt Spring Winery...
A last view from my room...
And I stand on the Ganges Harbour,
Waiting for my seaplane...
and saying goodbye to the beautiful Salt Spring Island...
I've being reading your blog and found your post very helpful :) . I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog!
Posted by: driveway iron gates | December 07, 2009 at 08:05 AM
Hi Roxanne,
Thank you for visiting my blog, and your lovely comments are always appreciated..
I love all your journeys and pics, esp the handmade gate, I have a little chair, about a childs size, made in the same way with old sticks, in my garden, it is probably deteriorating but I love seeing it weather the storms of life..
I love the hadmade journal pages made by your friend and added to by you, I would love to do something like that, what is the material used?...xxx
xx
Posted by: Julia Rose | August 23, 2009 at 05:09 PM
Roxanne, what a place...I can only imagine fields of lavender...the sight and smell of it!!
thank you for taking me along...
x..x
steph
Posted by: Stephanie | August 23, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Hi Roxanne, your photos of this place are amazing, as usual. :) So beautiful - I'd love to visit one day!
Posted by: Ms.Tee | August 20, 2009 at 07:29 AM
What a special place to visit. There seems to be creativity in the air!
Posted by: Seth | August 19, 2009 at 09:41 AM
Oh my, this is just amazingly gorgeous. All that lavender is enough to waft the most cynical to heaven! Beautiful, beautiful!
Posted by: Shirley Ende-Saxe | August 19, 2009 at 05:38 AM
Ummm, I can almost smell the perfume of the lavender from here. Gorgeous photos too.
Posted by: robruhn | August 19, 2009 at 04:07 AM
It's like I have traveled with you to Salt Spring Island, your photos are just wonderful. I love both of the gate photos and it's so lovely to see your smiling face in your self-portrait.
Posted by: azirca | August 18, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Lovely to share the journey with you Roxanne...so beautiful. I particularly love the old church by the water and that beautiful lavender.
Jacky xox
Posted by: Jacky | August 18, 2009 at 04:43 AM
Oh Roxanne, don't throw out your "sneaks"... they're just getting good!!!
You have chosen a beautiful part of Canada to explore... I really enjoyed the beauty you have shared... Thanks...
Posted by: gwen Buchanan | August 17, 2009 at 08:50 AM
what a charming place...would love to roll in the lavendar...i miss you...hugs, rebecca
Posted by: Cre8Tiva | August 16, 2009 at 10:05 AM
oh la la! I can smell the lavender!! thanks for the beauty!
Posted by: caterina giglio | August 16, 2009 at 08:53 AM
BIG SIGH! Oh how I wish I could have gone with you. Each and every photo was wonderful. I love that stone church and that lovely iron gate. And, and, and...
I loved it all. Thanks for the tour.
Posted by: katiejane | August 15, 2009 at 12:09 PM
it sounds like you had a week in paradise and please don't throw away those shoes -
Posted by: Jeane | August 15, 2009 at 08:37 AM
Lovely photos each and every one. The lavender in fields or hanging on racks must have smelt heavenly. I've never seen or smelt fields of lavender though the two little bushes growing under my bedroom window waft fragrance through the house whenever it rains.
Posted by: Robyn | August 15, 2009 at 05:42 AM
How lovely Roxanne. Heaven it seems.
Thank you for taking us. I like the fence and the lavender especially.
Did you show your new table linen?
xox
Constance
Posted by: rochambeau | August 14, 2009 at 05:57 PM
Sigh. Salt Spring Island seems to experience the summer of my daydreams. How lovely. I hope to read more of the workshop and SEE more of your inspiring artwork.
Posted by: Kathleen Botsford | August 14, 2009 at 02:08 PM
Oh my gosh! These photographs of Salt Spring Island are fantastic. I want to go there . . . right now! Seriously, I am going in search of more information right now. Thanks for sharing.
xo
Posted by: Leslie M. | August 14, 2009 at 12:09 PM