Birds and a visiting dragonfly

Stores:  Butchart Gardens, The Sooke Harbour House, Abkhazi Gardens, Sea Cider on the Saanich Peninsula, Last weekend for Dales Gallery on Fisgard
Gallery: The Gallery at Matticks Farm

   A tray of both shiny and rusty metal is transformed into beautiful backyard wrens and finches. A huge bright blue dragonfly makes my shop  home for a few hours darting here, there, and everywhere, encouraging me to distraction. I caught him once when he was on the fan and I put him out but he kept coming back in over and over again.
   A time of harvest and country fairs, peaches were canned, jams and apple sauce was made this week in my kitchen. Still waiting for my tomatoes to ripen...