Showing posts with label Our time in PEI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Our time in PEI. Show all posts

Monday, October 06, 2014

{Our Time in PEI} ~ Anne of Green Gables Chocolates


I told Mr. Husband that I was doing a blog post
on the store that is in Avonlea Village.
Oh you are going to write about a tourist trap?
He quipped.
Well... let's just say we were both excited to 
get some special food things there for our
friends and family... :)


There is also a store in downtown Charlottetown... 
Yes, Anne is 'big business' there but if you think
about all the things published today
and in the last years for kids,
I would myself be mighty glad that 
Lucy Maud Montgomery books are still well loved!
And that there are places that are trying
to preserve the past and promote it.
There is no century I guess that is what we want it to be,
at least from my perspective
as in with beauty, modesty, Christ-loving, peaceful
but should we not at least appreciate the beauty 
that is still to be found and the times where it was
harder in many ways,
out houses, older equipment for laundry, dishes,
farming was a real man's job and not at all easy
(not that it is today but you know what I mean,
horse and buggy verses tractors etc).
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Anyway,
I don't find these things (stores) to be a totally bad thing...



I love Matthew and his quiet love of Anne.


A red fizzy drink, much to some people's dismay ;)


I did not buy the hot chocolate, 
knowing I would be in Ottawa shortly there after
and could get camino chocolate there...
and when I am not using that, Fry's cocoa... 


Anne and Diana dolls :)



Cute, eh?
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They had really great jams, chocolates and other food 
all made in PEI, so it was a special treat that
we passed on to many :)

Friday, October 03, 2014

{Our Time in PEI} ~ St. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church

Mr. Husband and I,
while we were in PEI,
had the pleasure of being at the one
Orthodox church on the Island:




It is a lovely church and I can tell how much
personal effort, time and attention the
beautifying of this Orthodox Temple has took
and is continuing to take. 




The iconostasis is really beautiful;
my pictures do not do it justice.
and the blue....very beautiful... the liturgical colour 
for the Mother of God... it was so fitting that
we were there during the (new calendar) Dormition Fast
and went to their paraklesis service as well
as liturgy on Sunday.







Icons truly enliven a space and it was wonderful to
see this church adorned with so many!


The Mother of God.


St. Stephen the first martyr.


Christ.


Saints Peter and Paul.


St. Elizabeth the New Martyr,
this is the second icon I've seen with St. Elizabeth
in traditional black monastic clothes;
the other one being in my church in Ottawa...
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If you are ever visiting PEI,
I do encourage you to go to this lovely church!
I found myself and Mr. Husband warmly welcomed
and it is a lovely place to pray!


Tuesday, September 30, 2014

{Our Time in PEI} ~ Belmont School where L. M. Montgomery taught





The Aveonlea villiage, while a fictional place
of L. M. Montgomery's books, 
is authentic in terms of gathering items of the time 




Anne of GG heresy; clearly Gilbert loves Anne ;)





Ink well in desk...
my Uncle said to me that he remembers used desks
with ink wells...




King and Queen;
how Canada has changed...


My Uncle, he was with us in the school room,
said that he went to a one room school house... 







How times have changed...
I do wish for the order I see in these days
and the modesty in dress....

Monday, September 29, 2014

{Our Time in PEI} ~ a church seen along our way...






A Beautiful majestic church that Mr. Husband and I saw on a walk 
in downtown Charlottetown, St. Dunstan's Basillica.
The light in the afternoon meant that while we saw
a beautiful church, it was very hard to photograph.
A pity we did not have time to see the inside
but it is always heartening to see beautiful architecture
and the Cross held high.