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Looking Back, Again

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A week ago I started a “looking back” series, where I post pictures from years ago – those that are special to me but not necessarily great. Here are a few more.

Sleeping grape vines, January, 2016.

These are from our first year in Penticton, before I decided to take a job in the Northwest Territories the following year. Like this one, that winter had been very mild, unlike the ones awaiting us in NWT.

Mountain snow melt, February, 2016.
Pacific Ocean off Vancouver Island, March, 2016.
Arrowleaf Balsamroot, commonly known as the Okanagan sunflower, April, 2016.
Grape vines, July, 2016.
From a mountain hike overlooking Okanagan Lake, October, 2016. In the distance you can see Kelowna. This area was recovering from a fire that had occurred ten years earlier; unfortunately it burned again during the severe fires of 2023.
Tamarack glory, October, 2016.

Four months later, in February, 2017, I took on the adventure of working in the Northwest Territories after deciding we would keep our home here in Penticton. We were about to become very spread out over this huge country!

Happy Monday.

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Reblog: Reddish Rainbow

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Reddish Rainbow I thought this was a little unusual for a rainbow … lots of the reds and not so much (if any) blues and greens. This is looking …

Reddish Rainbow

I love this amazing and very unusual rainbow photo from Allan J Jones Photography. To see more of Allan’s beautiful pictures, please click the link above. His site is well worth a visit.

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Reblog: #ScenicSaturday October 12th 2024.

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This series of posts depicts our beautiful world, hopefully encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from …

#ScenicSaturday October 12th 2024.

A beautiful Forest of Dean picture from Stuart Aken. Please click the link above to read about the forest and to see more of Stuart lovely landscape photography.

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Reblog: #ScenicSaturday September 14th 2024

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This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from …

#ScenicSaturday September 14th 2024

Another beautiful picture of the Forest of Dean, courtesy of Stuart Aken. Please click the link above to view more of Stuart’s lovely landscape photography.

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#ScenicSaturday August 10th 2024:

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This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging people to share them and maybe even help save our unique home planet from …

#ScenicSaturday August 10th 2024:

A beautiful photo from Stuart Aken showing the River Wye, Gloucestershire, UK. Please click the link above to read Stuart’s comments about the condition of this river.

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If a Tree Falls in the Woods …

… can you count the rings?

While we were hiking on Haida Gwaii, we saw where a dead tree had fallen across the trail and the part blocking the path had been removed.

We tried counting the rings to see if we could get a sense of its age; as we got closer to the middle, the rings were very close together and it was difficult to tell exactly.

We were able to determine that at a minimum, there were 150 rings, so this tree was standing when Alexander Mackenzie was prime minister of Canada and Queen Victoria was still occupying the throne and would continue to do so for another 27 years. My grandparents hadn’t been born and my great-grandparents were teenagers! Such realisations always remind me to enjoy my life; after all, we’re not here for very long.

Comments are closed on this post because we have company coming. Happy August.