Am off to Green Gables House today

     I will be working parttime at Green Gables House in Cavendish the next couple of weeks to help with tours doing animations.
     I've been helping with off-season tours of the Green Gables house through Parks and People for the past 25 years and always enjoy telling the story of the house, LM Montgomery and Anne of Green Gables - the reaction of visitors is sometimes overwhelming as you see them enter the house and see them realizing their dream.
     Below is a link to Green Gables House from the Prince Edward Island government website: http://www.gov.pe.ca/greengables/

See also Green Gables Website: http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/pe/greengables/visit.aspx

Lavender

     I came across this poem the other day in the GRACE Magazine, Summer 2012 issue (published in ChristChurch, Dorset, England)  www.gracepublishing.net

Lavender, sweet lavender;

Come and buy my lavender,

Hide it in your trousseau, lady fair.

Let its lovely fragrance flow

Over you from head to toe,

Lightening your eyes, your cheek, your hair...

by Cumberland Clark, Flower Song Book 1929

The Above image comes from...

http://www.nishanil-nishanil.blogspot.ca/2012_05_01_archive.html

Update

     It's been a great summer at our Cavendish motel.  A few of the big groups we hosted this summer were: Atlantic Canada Students - 2nd Annual Sears Drama Festival; guests to the Country Music Festival; soccer teams for big soccer tournament in Hunter River; a walking group from Nova Scotia - along with all the wonderful people we had come stay with us from the Maritimes, central and western Canada and folks from all around the world.  Here's the motel below... http://bayvista.ca/

     The motel will soon be closing soon for the season and I'll be going back home to Pleasant Valley and getting back in to my old routines, ie. costuming, getting ready for winter, parttime at Marks, etc., etc.

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     In the summer of 2014 Prince Edward Island will be celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Charlottetown Conference where the idea of Canada was born.  Check out the website. http://www.pei2014.com/joinus
     Below are photos of me from the 125th Anniversary year of celebrations.  I portrayed the youngest Father of Confederation, Andrew A. MacDonald from Georgetown.  That summer I had a small part at the end of a play about Confederation at the Confederation Center of the Arts - at the end of the performance we rose up from the orchestra pit, the Fathers of Confederation were sitting around a conference table -  it was a wonderful experience.