Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Glorious & Free


Happy Canada Day! It truly is great to live in Canada...so many freedoms. Yesterday I celebrated with about 300 new Canadians who recently moved to Canada from 124 different countries. It was their first Canada Day celebration! I looked around and saw the world right in front of me here in Canada; it made me so proud to be Canadian.

Also, if you haven't seen the movie One Week with Joshua Jackson and you are Canadian, you need to see it. It truly is a love letter to Canada. If you haven't been fully appreciating the beauty of this country, you will fall in love with it again after watching the movie.

Another thing I love about Canada is the summer. Because our winters feel so cold and long, I appreciate summer all the more by spending as much time in the sunshine as possible, visiting farmers markets and loading up on fresh veggies and fruit, attending festivals, sitting on patios drinking wobbly pops and devouring quintessential summer foods. Here are some shots from the past week in celebration of summer:


A BBQ dinner - grilled veggies, steak, corn-on-the-cob and tomato/mozza salad

Some produce from the Calgary Farmers Market


Some tomatoes used to make Jamie Oliver's Mothership Tomato Salad

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