Morning one, Abbotsford, Canada. Slightly cloudy, misty, cool but not cold (John went outside to take these photos in shorts, t-shirt and thongs - I did not!).
This top photo is from Canada Chris' front yard overlooking the Fraser River Valley towards the mountains. Very picturesque, as you can see. Different trees but quite Maleny-like. After lunch we walked to the Fraser River which is just past the treeline.
The leaves are starting to change colour as you can see along Chris' driveway. There are already many leaves on the ground which is why they call this season Fall. Wouldn't have the same significance in Queensland where most of our trees are evergreens.
On our afternoon walk we passed this barn which is in fact a film studio. To us it looked just like the barns we imagined in rural North America. Also, although we didn't take a photo because they were pretty boring were huge sheds which we thought housed either pigs or chickens. Wrong... Chris informs us that raising turkeys is very big business here. We can only imagine how many thousands of turkeys there must be in this farming community alone!
Seen today: Blackberry/raspberry bushes (as common as our lantana) growing wild along the side of the road and acting, we'd imagine, as very good trespass protection given the thorns and the 2-3m height of some of them; logs floating in the river, probably waiting for a Monty Python lumberjack; the inside of a Costco store; unleaded fuel $1.26 and diesel $1.12 (the way the price difference should be).
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