fajrdrako | Beautiful autumn day... (Reply)

"Beauty" seems to have been the attribute of the day - which was like yesterday: skies of royal blue, leaves of every colour from dark green to amber to pale yellow to bright scarlet, mild temperatures, and a lovely purple sunset. Sadly, my camera has stopped functioning. When I'm solvent again, I'll buy another.

maaseru and I drove to Pinecourt, Quebec, to visit

maaboroshi and her father for Thanksgiving.

maaboroshi's mother used to be the one who cooked for Thanksgiving; she died a few months ago, and we thought her father might like our company. We would at least be a bit of a change from his routine.

We went with the GPS Daniel as our guide, and he got us lost somewhere - seemed to be looking for a street that didn't exist in a town we weren't going to. But we got there in the end, through a series of lovely riverside towns. We were amused that when we made the turnoff from the highway to Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, GPS Daniel called it "Sweet Anne de Bellevue". Daniel does have trouble with French names. I'm not sure whether I'll ever be able to call the town by its proper name again.

And that was where we had dinner, in a restaurant called Peter's Cape Cod, overlooking the canal and the locks. I had squid with salad. I'd already planned to deviate from my diet for Thanksgiving, though: I had bread pudding with hot lemon sauce for dessert. But only ate one third of it: the rest is now in my freezer.

maaboroshi's father was most amused by

maaseru, who was good at making him laugh, and a good time was had by all. We got the quick potted tour of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, and saw the school where

maaboroshi went, and some beautiful old stone houses with gorgeous gardens and huge old trees.

Driving home, due west, we saw a lovely rainbow - yes, it was a clear and sunny day, so we never did figure out the meteorology of it. But there were some lovely dappled clouds and they must have caused just the right conditions for a tiny arc of rainbow in the atmosphere.