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April 1 - End of the Season
April 01, 2024 - This ski season has come to a close for us. Though the resort remains open for another week, we are in the process of pa...
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March 18 - Spring Is Sprung
March 19, 2024 - For the last few days we've had unseasonably warm temperatures here in the Okanagan Valley.
Yesterday the thermometer r...
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March 30 - Springtime in the Okanagan
March 30, 2023 - Spring has arrived in the Okanagan Valley. But you would not recognize this if you were at Silver Star Mountain Resort....
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May 31 - Photo of the Day
May 31, 2020 - These Yellow Lady's Slippers I photographed in my yard.
I transplanted these flowers from Birch Island a few years ago.
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May 13 - Photo of the Day
May 13, 2020 - One of the first signs of spring greening.
I photographed these mounds of dead grasses with frost earlier this spring....
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May 8 - Photos of the Day
May 08, 2020 - This is what we woke up to this morning. This is the pine forest out our back door.
I rechecked my calendar to be sure...
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May 7 - Photo of the Day
May 07, 2020 - Yikes!
I don't remember ever having this weather on my Mother's birthday.
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May 4 - Photo of the Day
May 04, 2020 - Sunny today, but cold and windy - not May weather.
This is the first wild flower that we have seen blooming this spring...
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May Day Photo of the Day
May 01, 2020 - Spring has officially arrived at our place - we heard the spring peepers today.
And summer will have arrived at our pla...
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April 30 - Photo of the Day
April 30, 2020 - Rainy day again, but it did stop in the afternoon, leaving a chance to go for a walk.
All the ice on Silver Lake has me...
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April 19 - Photos of the Day
April 19, 2020 - Variable weather conditions today. This morning was clear and mild. And then this...
After this mid-day snowstorm, the...
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April 11 - Photo of the Day
April 11, 2020 - We had some frost this morning, so I drove down to the corner of Chief Lake Road.
Water in the creek is not very high...
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April 6 - Photo of the Day
April 06, 2020 - We had a good frost this morning, because the temperature was -4°C.
This photo, again, was taken at my favourite wetlan...
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April 4 - Photo of the Day
April 04, 2020 - A couple days ago the first crocus blossomed at our driveway - a sure sign that spring is around the corner.
Here is my...
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April 3 - Photo of the Day
April 03, 2020 - I wasn't the only one up and about at sunrise this morning.
Again, taken at my favourite swamp down the road.
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April 2 - Photo of the Day
April 02, 2020 - The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines abstract art as follows:
achieving its effect by grouping shapes and colours in...
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April 1 - Breaking News
April 01, 2020 - Rumour has it that the city is finally going to repair our street (road).
They did the preliminary work yesterday.
S...
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March 31 - Photo of the Day
March 31, 2020 - The real signs of spring are the blooming of flowers.
Faux flowers! Faux spring!
We can look forward to the coming of...
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June 5 - Spring colours around Sudbury
June 05, 2019 - I must apologize for the long period between blog posts. Spring was slow in coming here, with late snow melt and a lot o...
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April 16 - Packing Up, But First...
April 16, 2019 - Before our departure for home, we wanted to tour in the Okanagan. Seeing that the balsamroot were blooming around Vernon...
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March 31 - Springtime in the Okanagan
March 31, 2019 - The snow has quickly disappeared here in the North Okanagan Valley. The warm weather and sunny skies make winter seem a...
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May 28 - Almost into Summer
May 28, 2018 - Spring was slow to come this year. When it did finally start to green, everything erupted quickly. First a few fresh gre...
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May 22 - Spring Has Sprung, at Last
May 22, 2018 - Spring has arrived here in Sudbury, though it is somewhat late. The warming weather has allowed the leaves to burst out...
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May 4 - Last Vestiges of a Late Winter
May 04, 2018 - Spring is finally attempting to emerge. Most of the snow has melted and ice is beginning to break up on the lakes.
Here...
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June 11 - Beat the Heat and Compose a Blog
June 11, 2017 - This was our hottest day of the year, with the temperature here reaching 32.7 C. So I thought that it was time to show a...
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May 13 - Switzerland on a Rainy Day
May 13, 2016 - Today was the second consecutive rainy day. But we did not want to sit around (except in a konditorei), so we took a ran...
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June 9 - Photographing at the Edges of the Day
June 09, 2015 - The best times to be making the most unique photographs are at the beginning and end of the days. At this time of the ye...
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May 17 - Manitoulin in the Spring
May 17, 2015 - Last week I made two visits to Manitoulin Island. I was going because this was peak time for blooming Marsh Marigolds an...
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May 6 - Photo of the Day
May 06, 2015 - Spring seems to be coming here in Sudbury. A few days of warm weather and the poplars are beginning to bud, and maple ca...
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April 27 - Photo of the Day
April 27, 2015 - Spring has not sprung here yet. The recent days have been cool, so the vegetation is still brown. But that is good for t...
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April 20 - Back Home
April 21, 2015 - Our drive home from Vernon was uneventful. The first day was overcast, but after that, the days were bright and sunny. T...
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May 7 Photo of the Day
May 07, 2014 - Today I drove to Manitoulin Island to deliver some framed prints to Perivale Gallery.
To my surprise there still was a...
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May 1 Photo of the Day
May 01, 2014 - Spring is coming, slowly. We still have a few small patches of snow, and the ice on the lakes is finally starting to bre...
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April 26 Photo of the Day
April 26, 2014 - We spent this last week in south western Ontario.
Spring is slowly coming on, though there are still few signs of green...
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March 23 Photo of the Day
March 23, 2014 - This morning we welcomed spring with a few centimeters of fresh snow. Beautiful, but it was all gone here in town by mid...
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