Squirrel

 

I think this might be one of the squirrel that was born this spring in the apple tree.

Goose Visit

 

A Canada goose comes to the bird feeder.

Christmas Cactus

Christmas Cactus - mom always checked this plant for new blooms.

 

Photos of Oldenburg Airport, Germany, 1948

 My father was in the  Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers ( R.E.M.E.s) after World War II - Oldenburg Airport near Bremen in Lower Saxony, Germany, was used by the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers as a repair depot - my father Raymond Bellis took these photos when he was part of the R.E.M.E.. - according to the airport's history , the R.E.M.E.'s took it over from 8 Canadian soldiers who had captured the former Luftwaffe base after it had been abandoned by the Germans in May 1945 and turned it into a vehicle repair centre.

He must have liked this German Shepherd they named Lassie who I imagine remained on duty after his humans had retreated.

caption on back reads "Lassie" 

                              Oldenburg AirPort

                              R.E.M.E Cookhouse (?)

                              10 July, 1948

                 

55 years ago

 My Mother died today. The hospital is a few blocks north of our old house on McConnell Avenue. She walked me up the street to school the first day of Kindergarten in 1965. I always saw the hospital on the hill from the school. 

Olive Bellis, July 10, 1927 - February 8, 2021

Peacefully on February 8, 2021 at the age of 93 after a brief illness at Cornwall Community Hospital.

Born Olive Thomas, one of twins, in East Brighton, Brighton, England, July 10, 1927, and raised as Olive Williams with her brother Leslie and sister Daisy in Bethesda, Wales, a mostly Welsh speaking slate mining town in what is now Snowdonia National Park. Her adoptive father, Thomas John Williams, served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in WWI and owned the first motor taxi in Bethesda. He once drove a customer all the way to London. She married the late Raymond Lewis Bellis in 1949, had two girls, and emigrated to Canada in 1957, where she had a son.

Olive was active in the Cornwall Ceramics Club, volunteered at Cornwall General Hospital, and attended Good Shepherd and Trinity Anglican Church.

Mother to Miriam, Mary, now deceased, and Mark, Grandmother to Valerie, Andrea, Jennifer and David, Great-grandmother to Andrew, Stephanie, Haley, Alexander, Samantha, Christina, James, Amy, Joseph, Ian, Jenna, Hayden

and Emily and Great-great-grandmother to Chloe, Noah, Liam

and Greyson. Sister-in-law to Anne, Aunt to Christine and Ruth, and Arfon, Steve, Karen and Chris and Great-aunt to Iwan, Tom and Hannah.

Thanks to everyone at Cornwall Community Hospital for their kind care.

She used to volunteer as an usher during the war years and saw Julie Andrews and Petula Clark as child stars. She also saw Dame Sybil Thorndyke do Medea for a week - she said most of the performances were dull but one was electrifying.

She had furniture made from slate in the house she grew up in - the dinner table had  a slate top and they used it as a pool table as well. I saw cabinets for dishes made of slate and even a folding fan.

Amaryllis