Category Archives: Photography

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Looking Back

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It recently occurred to me that this blog has been running since October, 2012 – quite a long time. Although it’s not my blogversary, I feel like doing a photographic “looking back” series and posting some pictures that have been buried for a while. These are not necessarily great photos, they’re just photos that I like, that evoke strong feelings.

Orchards …

These pictures are from an early autumn holiday visit to the Okanagan Valley in 2012. We knew we loved it, but didn’t know then that we would eventually move here.

… a distant boat …
… and M and I hiking among the grape vines.

Good memories of a lovely holiday.

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Winter, Winter

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How’s this for a winterish picture?

The carp pond has partially frozen, confusing the ducks.

Ummm, I’m supposed to be paddling, right?

I was surprised to see the carp swimming around under the frozen surface. Someone had thrown rocks at the pond’s surface, trying to break the ice, but it’s frozen enough to hold. The fish look surreal under the rocky ice layer!

Wherever you are, I hope you’re staying warm. Happy Thursday.

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Wintery Skaha Lake

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As I’ve noted here before, Penticton is one of two communities in the world that’s sandwiched between two lakes. The other is Interlaken, Switzerland.

An autumnal evening view of Okanagan Lake.

I usually post pictures of the considerably larger Okanagan Lake which is very close to where I live.

A chilly-looking Skaha Lake.

Although smaller, Skaha Lake which is situated on the southern end of town, is equally impressive if very cold right now.

Wintery Skaha Lake.

Although we are fortunately still above freezing and are enjoying a string of sunny days, as you can probably tell the wind is quite cold and you definitely wouldn’t want to go swimming!

To those of you who are coping with the extremely cold temperatures that are hitting large portions of North America right now, stay safe (and warm).

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Me? Go in There? I Don’t Think So!

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The Canada geese were standing on the beach contemplating the water and very dubious about going in. They’re always so good at showing their displeasure.

The wind had started up and they were feeling chilly, it seems. I really didn’t blame them. Finding a good evening roost seemed like a much better idea.

Despite the wind we had a lovely sunny day with lots of people round and about enjoying the Frost Fest.

Happy Sunday.

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Cold Front

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We are supposed to be getting clear skies but cold temperatures over the next couple of days, the result of a so-called “polar vortex” (really? do we need to add drama to the weather? as we know, the weather is quite capable of providing its own drama without the ridiculous names). Nevertheless, and with all due respect to Shakespeare, something frigid this way comes. I saw it arriving yesterday afternoon.

The heavy valley cloud was being forced out by a very brisk, cold wind blowing out of the north that was also causing whitecaps on the lake. Brrr.

Although we still had 5C (41F) out, it really felt much, much colder, the result of that chilling wind.

Even though we are supposed to drop to about -5C (23F), an advantage is that we are supposed to get very clear, sunny days. After all the overcast that will be nice, even though the winter clothing layers will need to increase.

Happy weekend.