Doors Open Tea Plus

Doors Open is a province-wide event held each year. It is up to communities to participate, and ours has for the past few years. The idea is to be able to visit places that may not always be open to the public. While we had seen most places on the list, there was both a tea and quilt show at St James Church.

It was an old-fashioned tea with the servers playing their parts to perfection. These were the two ladies who served us, mostly the second lady, but the first did help us with refills.

We happened to have Danica with us for a while that day, so we got a few pics of her enjoying a scone with jam and cream.

The centerpiece was unique.

We wandered into the sanctuary where there were many many quilts, from both now and the past, but I didn't take a single photo, at least partly because I was having a difficult health day.

But then Danica asked about the organ. It's a big pipe organ, and she could't understand how it worked. So they got the organist in to play just a little bit, and I must say that the sound certainly filled the somewhat small church. At the last minute, I was able to snatch a brief video clip.

We made one more stop to the former Federal Building, which was the post office for many years. As we walked in the door, the owner began to address the small group assembled about how he has worked diligently to restore the place as authentically as possible. It was a great talk, but once again I didn't take any photos, this time largely because we were a group in a small area, and I didn't want to disrupt proceedings.

I did take one photo because it was such a delightful little touch. Every postmaster has signed his name to the inside of the vault. I wasn't able to get close, but you can see where we were looking in this photo.

I was done in by this point, so I went home to bed while Sue and Danica went shopping for a birthday present for one of Danica's friends.