Tag Archives: British Columbia

Winter Evening Skies

We had a rainy day but the evening skies were beautiful with cloud striations and a nascent sunset partially obscured by overcast.

A pink and orange sunset pushes through the overcast and brings the leafless branches of the winter trees into stark contrast.
A cloud river nestles against a mountainside as the setting sun highlights the overcast.

Happy Thursday.

Snowfall

Two enormous storms are sweeping across the Pacific and are hitting British Columbia’s northern coast, Vancouver Island and lower mainland with a huge force of wind and rain. They are even reaching into the interior. At the higher elevations, the rain is actually snow, and it is coming down in huge amounts. Here in our deep valley, we are seemingly escaping the worst of it, but we did get a little snow yesterday.

Once there’s snow, our resident duck flock is more reliant on food provided for them and as soon as they saw us heading their way, they lost no time in mobbing my M who started scattering some yummies for them.

Lunch time!

It doesn’t take long for them to devour a large bag of quinoa, especially when it’s cold.

We did get some snow collection over night but much of it melted today.

Happy Wednesday.

Festive Light Tunnel

The City of Penticton always puts on a light show during December, and this year added a tunnel.

The tunnel proved to be very popular, especially with children, and so it was decided that it should stay until the end of January.

Given how grey, rainy and overcast it has been – and as of today including a little snow – I agree with the city’s decision. These pretty lights are definitely a little mood booster.

Apparently we will be getting our rain back tomorrow but according to the weather gods, we are supposed to get SUN on Wednesday. Fingers crossed.

Happy Tuesday.