Ready for Spring

Me too!

Shanghai Noodles

I pass this restaurant several times each week and only noticed recently that there is a new mural on the front of the building. It's interesting how certain wild animals come into style or become popular at various times. Pandas have been in vogue for some time now. Meerkats are also very in right now, at least with advertisers. Geckos are also currently popular. When I was a kid koala bears were much thought of but who ever speaks about koalas now? In any case I enjoy this Panda and her awesome brood. As for the food, I've not eaten there but I plan to after reading this review from Chowhound.

Peace

Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour,
And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,
With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,
To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,
Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary,
Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move,
And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,
And all the little emptiness of love!

Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there,
Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,
Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;
Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there
But only agony, and that has ending;
And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
(Rupert Brooke)

Hoodoos

Victoria is experiencing an uncharacteristic amount of rain for the last few days so I will continue to look fondly back on a dry and hot summer vacation in the Okanagan Valley. Here are some hoodoos near the highway just north of Penticton.