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Evening on Skaha Lake

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We had another beautifully spring-like day today and took a walk at Skaha Lake.

Skaha Lake is the smaller lake that’s at the southern end of the city; it’s shallower than the very much larger Okanagan Lake at the north end and is a beautiful swimming and boating lake in spring, summer and autumn.

On our way to the lake we saw another, very definite sign of spring: the weeping willows have turned yellow which means that green leaves are close at hand!

Happy Wednesday

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It Felt Like Spring!

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Yesterday we had a very spring-like day.

Windless, 10C (50F), and sun that had a little oomph going on.

It was lovely to sit in the gentle warmth and just enjoy.

My apologies to all the people throughout North America who are presently buried in snow or dealing with slush and cold rain and wind, but once spring starts, it does have a way of rolling forward, even if there’s a bit of to-ing and to-ing. It’s coming.

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More Grey … with a Side of Snow

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It started raining and then turned to a very thick, watery snow that began to settle in some places. Here at the valley bottom, it was our first snowfall of the season.

The rainy snow was so dense that the visibility across the lake was quite low.

Since our temperatures have been around 4C (39F), it won’t last, though.

The ducks certainly didn’t mind; their favourite little pond was ice-free!

As I continued my ramble, the snowy rain became more rain-like; it had been a bit of an incongruity since some of the trees are beginning to bud as you can in the picture above.

By the time I arrived back at home, it was back to just plain rain.

Happy Tuesday.

Sometimes, life is like that.