John meets his challenge.  Stuffed and hugely harmless.  

Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia.

 

Our Salt Spring Island competition.  Beautiful country bouquets selling for $12.  A transplanted Healdsburg girl working here.  Notice they still have sweetpeas in mid August.  The flowers and other produce seem to come on a bit later in their bioregion.   This was the Tuesday afternoon Farmer's Market.  They have a bigger one on Saturdays.

One of many farm gate stands on Salt Spring Island.  I loved the clever flower holders.  A custom designed wooden stand holds a litre-size milk container.  Flower stems soak within until snatched by a customer.

I have no idea what this is.  It is blooming on a tree outside the entrance to the University of British Columbia's Botanical Gardens.

A roadside Inn outside of Penticton.  The hanging flower baskets are everywhere in B.C. This display was too overwhelming to just drive on by.