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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

44 thoughts on “Evening on Skaha Lake”

  2. Gorgeous landscape and photos. I am glad spring is arriving where you are. Here in north Texas the weather is up and down but tomorrow, well todays it is allegedly going to reach into the 80’s (27 Celsius)

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    1. Thank you very much for your lovely comments, Thomas. This is about right for us for spring start. We are definitely going to have some ups and downs as well but those will decrease. I like having all the seasons. When I lived in Arizona I missed having spring and autumn.

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      1. Yes I guess some places don’t really have spring and autumn. North Texas where I live definitely does. However, it is a little different from the seasons up north. The winter rarely has snow but it happens and the temperature goes up and down between cold and comfortable. Spring is warm and sometimes hot with a lot of thunderstorms, many of them severe. Then summer is very hot, typically near or above 40 degrees Celsius. Then fall is warm and slowly getting cooler with most leaf trees remaining green but not all.

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        1. Thanks, Thomas. Spring and autumn can be hot here as well (in the mid 30s or so) but usually only as they are adjacent to summer. Winters here are usually mild and nothing at all like those in the Northwest Territories where I worked. Nevertheless they’re definitely winter.

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  3. Beautiful and calming, Lynette. 🙂

    Where I live it was mild enough to give a feeling of spring like temperatures. It’s going to be the same today. 🙂

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      1. It’s been really lovely walking around the city while down this way today, after my appointments this morning. I was walking with my coat open at one point.

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  15. My favourite is the last photo, initially for its tracery of waving branches, but then for that line of evergreens climbing the steep mountain slope at the left rear — just like that photo of Gold Rush miners snaking their way up the Chilkoot Trail!

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    1. Wow – yes! It does look like that. A fantastic connection, Penny. I think that photo is my favourite as well and also because of the branches. Right now they are bare, but I saw some budding beginnings so they will soon once more shield the lake.

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