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Salt Spring solstice

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Winter sunsets have a different quality to them…the light is “thinner” in some way, in our northerly environs.

The sun sets in November around 4 p.m., and in the summer season, in July, it would be setting around 10 p.m. Quite a difference!

Manhattanhenge from 42nd Street, New York City

Manhattanhenge from 42nd Street, New York City

The conifer forests always look the same, though, so the “vistas” are remarkably unchanged, regardless of the time of year.

Less blue, more grey to the palette, though? The sun shimmers through the mist in a more golden glow, a softer hue, and in the summer we get those intense reds blurring down to purple, just before dark.

Regardless of the season, it’s always uplifting to view a sunset…is this how the Druids felt, at the soltstice moment, back at Stonehenge, when the light returned?

I’m glad the holiday season involves decorations, lights festooned here and there, as without all this sparkle and trimming, it would be grey days indeed.

Did I tell you that the fibre optic tree is twinkling away in the corner of my office?

Light….always important.

All Things Salt Spring | Ronald Crawford

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Li Read interviews Artist Ronald Crawford about the Masterpiece Weekend in Salt Spring

Masterpiece Weekend

Salt Spring Island Restaurants, Inns & Coffee

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Salt Spring Island Restaurants

House Piccolo: a stellar dining experience, for dinner, located in Ganges Village. Locals and visitors alike call this “Salt Spring’s best
restaurant”. Certainly a place for celebrations! Open for dinner.

Calvin’s Bistro: oceanside deck, for summer al fresco dining pleasures, and Harbour views. Great food, terrific service, menu highlights plus regular menu choices, and enjoyed by locals and visitors alike! Open for lunch and dinner.

Harbour House Hotel open for breakfast and lunch, daily, and for dinner, in the off season, on Friday (live music), Saturday, Sunday. Open for dinner, nightly, in the summer season.

Hastings House a part of the Small Hotels of the World group, and with an award winning kitchen, this has to be on your list for those very special occasions.A view down Ganges Harbour is also a part of the ambiance. Open between April and November, for dinner: this is a not to be missed experience.

Bocados Bistro in Grace Point Square. Totally reconfigured space, formerly the Artist’s Bistro, this gem enjoys al fresco patio dining in the summer season…like traveling to Italy! Open for dinner.

Marketplace Cafe one of the newest dining choices on Salt Spring, and open for lunch and dinner, the Marketplace is located in Harbour Centre (formerly Gasoline Alley). Lots of specials, and also regular menu choices. A great addition to the dining scene! Open for lunch and dinner.

Market Place Cafe

Market Place Café

Treehouse Cafe recently “enclosed“, this well known summer location is now “year round”. Yes, live music is still on the menu, too! Breakfast and lunch, in the “off season”, and dinner, too, in the summer season.

Salt Spring Inn in the heart of Ganges Village, and with accomodation above the restaurant. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, daily.

Raven Street Market Cafe close to the Fernwood Dock, and with great soups and woodfired pizza. Take out or eat in. Your “north end” choice!

Golden Island Restaurant: eat in or take out…great Chinese cuisine choices! A local’s favourite!

Seaside Kitchen across from Vesuvius ferry parking lot, with an oceanside deck for summer al fresco dining pleasures…open for lunch and
for dinner. Best fish and chips, according to the Islanders!

Rock Salt Cafe at Fulford Village, adjacent to ferry terminal parking lot. Open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner…an award winning kitchen!

Rendezvous Cafe across from Moby’s and from Salt Spring Marina. An authentic French bakery…coffee and pastry delights: take out or eat in. Quiche, tomato tarts, savoury cheese items, plus delectable pastries. Make sure your next birthday cake comes from here. Christmas Yule Logs, too!

Cafe Talia on Hereford Street…best cappucino in town! Lots of
treats…open from 9 to 4, Monday to Saturday. Closed Sunday.

TJ Beans coffee house with the best viewing deck on the Island! Corner of McPhillips Avenue and Lower Ganges Roads.

Salt Spring Coffee

Salt Spring Coffee

Salt Spring Roasting Company home made delights, soups, coffees, teas. On McPhillips Avenue.

Jana’s Bakeshop: on Lower Ganges Road, at Upper Village. Coffee, teas, goodies.

Embe Bakery: coffee, teas, home made delights…the pies!

Dagwood’s: on Lower Ganges Road, in Upper Village. A Salt Spring
tradition: breakfast and lunch.

Denman Island Treasure

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Denman Island Treasure

A dream awaits you! 12 acres of sunny tranquility and privacy, just for you, on serene Denman Island. The property enjoys some forest areas, plus easy care and creative landscaping around the home. South/southwest/west exposures ensure year round/all day sun, and extensive patio areas expand summer living pleasures. Fronting on a marsh, a bird sanctuary, the “lake” here allows for canoeing the bends in the marsh…a very pleasing past-time.

denman island treasure

denman island

The home is new, and you have time to choose finishes, here! Radiant infloor heat, custom bathroom fixtures (you’ll love the shower and the tub in the master ensuite!), open plan kitchen/dining (top of the line appliances), custom built-in cabinetry for storage, pantry, dramatic living with vaulted ceiling, stairs from the formal entry/foyer to the master “suite”, and stairs from the family room to the children’s “wing”. A climbing wall feature from the family room, plus a terrific work-out exercise space.

This space has to be seen to be appreciated…

Easy access to the patio areas/barbecue space, from all principal rooms. This home could be featured in Dwell Magazine, and offers that clean-lined simplicity of the best of “west coast contemporary” Zen/Scandanavian influenced design. European windows, doors, everything chosen of very fine quality. The final finishing choices can be yours!

An amazing “shop” on the property, separately sited from the home. It holds a state of the art fully computerized woodworking business, at the moment. If desired, a buyer could offer on the equipment as well. The owner is a custom cabinet designer/creator, and his work is found in the very best homes on the Lower Mainland/in Whistler. He is able to work from home, on Denman. This space has to be seen to be appreciated…

…the word “shop” does not describe it, at all.

North Trail Island | Mr. Webber’s Salish Sea

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North Trail Island is another rarte opportunity to secure one of Salt Spring Island real estate‘s private islands – truly one of the finest offerings to date.

A unique and beautiful private island opportunity in the amazing Pacific Northwest Coast. Nestled in the Salish Sea (now known as Georgia Strait). North Trial Island is part off the Thormanby Group of islands, off Sechelt, BC.

North Trail Island, a 33 acre private island, offers a rural farm, with all the amenities of Sechelt (including a hospital) at your doorstep.

Incredible viewscapes, ocean, islands, mountain vistas. A stellar opportunity to enjoy of this beautiful coast. Secure an irreplaceable gem for your future — a family holding, a hard asset investment to protect your capital, an immediate pleasure quotient of the best of the best.

Origin of the term “Salish” (as Wikipedia says)

Bert Webber a.k.a The Father of the Salish Sea

The first known use of the term Salish Sea was in 1988, when marine biologist Bert Webber from Bellingham, Washington created the name for the combined waters in the region with the intent to supplement the Georgia Strait, Puget Sound, and Strait of Juan de Fuca waterway names. The adoption of the term, he said, would raise consciousness about taking care of the region’s waters and ecosystems. Webber’s efforts are credited with the official recognition of the term in the US and Canada, although Webber’s original proposal also recommended the removal of the terms Georgia Strait, Puget Sound, and Strait of Juan de Fuca from official recognition.

Coast Salish people

according to the Wiki

The Coast Salish are a grouping of indigenous peoples who live in southwest British Columbia, and northwest Washington state and share a common linguistic and cultural origin. For most of their collective histories (which date back to 8,000 B.C.E.) there was no overarching term to describe these people as a whole. Today the Coast Salish are seen as one of the main cultural and linguistic branches of a larger group known as Salishan or Salish. There are five recognized divisions of the Salish language family, with Coast Salish and Interior Salish being the primary two. The Salish family consists of 23 separate languages.