“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” —Dolly Parton
Haynes Ranch near Oliver

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” —Dolly Parton
Haynes Ranch near Oliver


John McCrae wrote the poem In Flanders Fields which inspired the use of the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance. In the spring of 1915, shortly after losing a friend in Ypres, a Canadian doctor, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae wrote his now famous poem after seeing poppies growing in battle-scarred fields.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.
Duncan Lake British Columbia