Tuesday 15 July 2008

SUMMER BLUES

One can never get enough of blue skies! Day after day of it ... ah well ... life's tough!

Alastair and I stayed in the Riverside Inn which is situated on the Thompson River in Kamloops. We arrived very late, in the dark, after driving - Alastair did all the driving - the 5 hours from Vancouver. We opened the curtains in the morning and this was the view.


Same thing the next day, only now we are in Salmon Arm. We spent the first night in a hotel as we were very tired and there is no furniture, at all, in the condo. What is not evident in this early morning blue sky view from the balcony is the ever-present caw-caw-caw of the Resident Crow.

Time for an evening walk along the waterfront at sundown - about 8:30 pm - after a very hot day. There are not 1, but 3!... osprey nests on poles like this. This one sits right in front of the Prestige Inn where busloads of Japanese visitors are offloaded for the night. These buses and their occupants are a daily event as far as I can see. Their arrival is so obvious by the groups of not, 10 or 20 or 30 but always about 100 meandering out of the hotel, or crossing the railroad tracks in search of their evening meal.




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