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I’m sorry, but….
…scooter riders are WAAAAY more hardcore than motorcyclists! I love this shot from this morning’s Globe and Mail. Motorcycles all but disappear from the roads as soon as the temperature drops. But scooter riders are there, year round, in the pounding rain and, in some cases, even in the flying snow. I can say I’ve ridden in everything, including snow…
Read more »8/366 – Algae on the Wall
January 8th, 2012 – It rains here. A lot. This weekend was no exception. And that means that we have a very green environment, and micro-environments are pretty green too. Like the gutter above this doorway down on Granville Island. Lots of healthy algae growing on this doorway. Normally that would mean great snow up on the mountains, but it’s…
Read more »4/366 – Nasty Weather Out There!
January 4, 2012 – Woke up to pouring rain and the desire to do nothing but bury my head back under the covers. Some days the bed is just so cosy and hard to vacate, particularly when there is a cat draped across your chest. Mother Nature has decided to ring in the New Year with a few nasty weather…
Read more »Day 330 – A Bright Spot in an Otherwise Dull Day
We are under rainfall warnings again. Sort of goes with the territory living on the “Wet” Coast. The weather changes so fast on the coast. From sun to rain like flicking a light switch. That’s OK though, if you can’t handle rain you shouldn’t live here. When I first moved here the rain depressed me. Coming from the North, I…
Read more »Day 310 – Sunny November Afternoon
What a fabulous day. At this time of year you have to take advantage of sunny days, use them to their fullest potential. And sometimes that just means sitting and enjoying the warmth of the sun on your face. Kirk and I give a great deal of our time to a volunteer organization, Canadian Power & Sail Squadrons. CPS is…
Read more »Day 294 – Wet
294/365 (Oct, 21, 2011) – Today was really rainy out in the Valley. That’s not fog, that’s rain. There is a river (the Chehalis River) and some hills out there, but you can’t see them. I wear an old leather wide brimmed hat when I work in the rain, it’s heavily coated in mink oil for waterproofing, but it’s probably…
Read more »Day 271 – Sunrise in Campbell River
271/365 (Sept 28, 2011) – You have to appreciate these morning on the coast in the fall. I think one thing I really like about this time of year is that the sunrises are late enough that I actually get to see them
Read more »Day 266 – Afternoon Brilliance
266/365 (Sept 23, 2011) – Mid-September hit and it felt like Fall pretty quickly. The past couple of days have been rainy and cool, but today warmed up and Nature even gave us a shot of sunlight. I was waiting for Kirk to pick me up after work and the sunlight came out blindingly for a few moments against one…
Read more »Day 244 – Shades of White
244/365 (Sept 1, 2011) – I can’t believe it’s the first day of September! Fall is just around the corner but summer only just got here. Seems unfair. This calls for dinner at the Keg and a nice hunk of sourdough bread before a perfectly seared bacon wrapped filet. I seem to be a day behind on everything right now!
Read more »Day 242 – The Writing is on the Wall
242/365 (August 30, 2011) – No! Don’t take down the umbrellas! Summer isn’t over yet! Not for a few weeks yet. But why is it that as the end of August is upon us, and as school is about to start back again, that we all decide it is fall? Well, the sun is setting earlier and rising later, the…
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