Winter here and there............

Hello Canada. Your fearless adventurer here. As you know I made it back safe and sound to BKK. That 15 cm of snow on Saturday scared me a bit. Closed down lots of things early in the mornin. But it sure was pretty to look at, especially cause I didn't have to go out in it!

I took pictures of the snow that day and you can compare it to my desk top screen, (this one you have seen before). Diane wanted to show it to some of the locals here at her work. What the snow looks like back home.
I think they don't have a clue what they are actually looking at. I mean it would be mind bobbling wouldn't it. If you have never experienced snow before. You know it exists because you have seen the tops of mountains all white and stuff but really, do you think they know what it is?

Ask someone you know from India or another tropical place and see what they tell you about when they first came to Canada. I remember working at Celestica and we brought a dozen Mexicans up to Toronto in February for a week of project requirements gathering. They thought we hated them cause the weather to them was absolute punishment. And the snow was the cruelist thing of all. They were slipping and sliding. Could not figure out what to do with the stuff or why it existed.

So the picture above looks like this now!.   But we understand. The Thais that I talked to. Nope. You can see it in their eyes. They can not figure out how pic 1 becomes pic 2. You have to experience this stuff like we have. That is why Canada is such an awesome place. We have the best of all worlds. We are the country of seasons. That is why I love it.

Now of course there are certain advantages to living in places like Thailand. Things like fresh produce. There will be a couple of broad smiles when people see these next pics.





Barb for one and Amanada would be the other. I planted these about a month before Christmas. I harvested a small handful of tomatoes just this morning. Amanada if you were here I would definitely give you some, but since you aren't I have to eat them all myself. Yummmy!

In the first pic, the pot at the back now has an undergrowth of mint growing all around the tree that was originally planted there. The small little pot off to the right is a branch of jasmine that I snapped off a tree on my golf course. I was told "Just stick it into the ground and it will grow"................. IT IS!!
You will also see in the second pic on the right hand side of the tomatoe plant a plant with purple flowers. That is thai basil. Can't have tomatoes without the ability to put together a little bruscetta!! Anyone's mouth watering? Like the old days on the decks of West Acres huh!!

Yeah so Jer will be Jer. Growing stuff no matter where I am. Joy and small pleasures. I am hoping that the jasmine tree has some flowers for February, if I am lucky. Just gives Deeds and I one more thing to call our own and to enjoy while we are here.
 
Sawadee Krup