The old farm house

We had a short walk in Ruckle Park today, one of our favourite places not just on the island but in the world - the parts of it we've visited anyway. The house was built in the mid-1870s by a Victoria contractor for Henry Ruckle, an Irish immigrant. 
"The family farmed here for more than a century. At one time, the farm included an orchard of more than six hundred apple and pear trees and forty nut trees. The Ruckles raised sheep, cattle, hogs, turkeys, chickens and pheasants, and produced hay, potatoes, wheat, oats, barley, field peas and root crops. When irrigation was brought to the farms in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley in the 1930s, Salt Spring Island’s farming industry declined but the Ruckle family persevered and supported themselves by selling milk and cream.
In 1974, the family donated the farm and the surrounding 1307-acre property to BC Parks for the creation of Ruckle Provincial Park, named in their honour. However, they stipulated that the 202-acre farmstead remain a working farm and they established a life tenancy agreement that allowed for six family members to continue to occupy and farm the historic farm area. By the early 2000s, the remaining members of the Ruckle family were of old age and they asked Mike Lane, the Park Facility Operator, to take over farming the land which he has been doing ever since." (from the Hastings House website)
A group has been working at restoring the old house and has made improvements to the garden. I finally got a couple of photos of spring flowers, snowdrops and some lovely yellow flowers that I thought were creeping buttercups, but I'm not sure. Maybe a blipper can help identify them?  I included a couple of extras. I hoped to get some photos of lambs, but they were in a far field, not close enough for photos. Another day.