Canada Day ... in Red

Today's colour is red...and given that it is Canada Day and we are all about red here, it's most appropriate.

We're not doing anything "special" for Canada Day.  No large get togethers or barbecues. We'll have dinner as we always do but we won't head out to watch fireworks.  That was always the "must do" when we were children...to head off to the local park for the fireworks.  I remember calling it "firecracker day" or "sparkler day" as opposed to Canada Day because we were always given sparklers to twirl around as the evening came to an end.  All the children in our part of the neighbourhood standing on our lawn writing our names in the air and gasping and shrieking as the sparkler burned to it's end.  If I think hard enough I can even smell one burning.

I love red and always have.  Red shoes, red handbags, red nail polish.  I loved candy apples as a child (I'd still eat one if given the opportunity!).  There is something about red that just makes me feel like I'm on fire!

 

Cherry kool aid slushies...there are two, I'll share!

the other side of the monkey bars in the local park 

around the house you'll see that I like to decorate with splashes of red

 

I love my red dining room wall!

love my Ikea sofa!

front door wreath

and in the garden

What is summer without red fruit?  I will have some watermelon on hand for dinner!

and a favourite book of my children (and me!) when they were little that sums up exactly how I feel about red...

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends!  Enjoy, and be safe!