How would you like a balcony like this? Dave took this picture of Old Fort Garry Place in Winnipeg. The building is about the size of a small city block and loaded with similar statues. He just had to take a picture!

While Dave was in Winnipeg, he went flying with ChristianWeek's group publisher, Brian, who is an airplane enthusiast. The flight was in a little two-seater Luscombe built in the 1940s, a collector's item that Brian had just finished restoring. The engine was reworked and needed to be run full bore for a while, so they flew until it started to get too hot and landed at a glider club where they watched gliders take off and land while their engine cooled off before heading back to the home field. It was a lot of fun!

Dave flew out to Winnipeg for meetings of ChristianWeek and then came back via Thunder Bay, where he visited a church that we are interested in from a design point of view. Remember Toronto's moose? Well, Winnipeg apparently has polar bears. Here is Dave with a Reporter Bear!

We had unexpected visitors for two and a half weeks in May and early June. We took in Abbey when her father died early Sunday morning on the long May weekend, and her mother Liz joined us a few days later from Victoria, B.C. It was a stretch for us, but it was the right thing to do and it went really well. I did the funeral (and helped to make the funeral arrangements) as well.