Where has Summer Gone?

The Blog Carnival for August for Etsy Bloggers suggests the following theme:
Have you been playing this summer? Did you go on vacation, or stick close to home? Let's see some photographs!

I have had an opportunity to play a bit this summer, though I wonder where the summer has gone. Because this is my first year participating in the local Farmer's Market I feel like I've spent much of my summer on that endeavor. I work full time so my weekends are precious and with almost each Saturday taken up by the market, my summer seems to have just blown by.

I did have two trips to see my now one year old grand daughter in Southern California and in between I had a wonderful long road trip through Montana to Spokane and up into British Columbia to the Castlegar/Robson area. My grandparents had a summer home in Robson they called "camp" where we spent many summer days growing up. It looked like this back then:

















And to the right is a view of the lower Arrow Lake (a widening in the Columbia River) from the property. If you look closely you can see a stern wheeler on the lake. Nowadays with a paper pulp plant across the lake from camp, it isn't quite the same serene spot, but it still holds many warm memories for me. So, I still love to visit. On this trip, I got acquainted with my only cousin and his wife and visited my aunt who is now 92. We spent a few hours pouring over old family pictures and reminiscing. I brought home some old family photos including one of my great grandmother whose photograph I had never seen. I brought home a box of photos. It is a precious memory of my summer adventure.