Kokanee in the spawning channel

Nature just amazes me as it makes these fish

swim up a creek, turn color and die after all

their hard labors.

Florence and Gilbert came for a visit

We went to Sandspit to see the Kokanee spawning.
The spawning channel is just full of very small fish.

The Fire on the Slocan Bluffs

This was taken looking straight up from the car
window.

This shot was taken as we drove down the road
and that very little speck you can see in the
sky at the right of the photo is not a bug on the
windshield but a helicopter with a bucket of
water underneath that it picked up in the lake to
dump on the fire.

Here is the little helicopter speck coming closer

And here as we drove away we could see some
bits burning just on the side of the road.

At the Hills Garlic Festival

Kim and Jim and Mom and the hordes!

Visit to Kelowna

Here's Mom with the Pope girls at the market
place after they had treated us to a lovely
dinner.