We live near Penticton Creek and one of its pretty foot bridges.

Usually, this creek is now down to a little dribble, but because we had a wet autumn followed by a wet winter and then a wet spring, this creek has been very full and running swiftly.

And all that very welcome rain – we had been experiencing a three-year drought – has turned the little creek into something of a river, especially where it widens out to empty into Okanagan Lake.

I often stop to admire it, to listen to its gurgling and to enjoy all the trees growing near it …

… trees that are very verdant this year because they have had lots of water …

… and to also enjoy the flowers that occasionally grow there, too.

Happy Monday.