We were tired enough by this time to consider seriously the idea of holing up for the night and continuing on in the morning. The falling snow kind of cinched that for us. So we took a room at the Manning Park Lodge and settled in.

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We took a bit of a detour south-ish going home from Kelowna/Penticton. If you look at a roadmap of lower BC, without contour lines, just a regular roadmap, you might be struck by the number of little roads that start off all right, but which quickly seem to forget where they were going and why, and then get distracted by some other road that's gotten in a thorough muddle and wants directions, and then just sort of lose interest in the trip altogether.

(A road map of upper BC is very easy to draw. Doesn't take long, either.)

Which is to say that in the time we spent going hardly anywhere at all, we could have nipped along the highway and got home by dark. But sometimes you just want to see bits of places that aren't next to the main route, and that's what we did that day.

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The following day we went for a hike in first a nearby park and then one farther away. I suppose a map of Kelowna and surrounds would jog my memory. If I had one to jog.

The near park was one that had been burned last summer; small things were beginning to grow now, including wildflowers such as this shooting star.

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More pictures from the Okanagan trip in April; these are of two structures on the grounds of the Summerhill Winery.

This barn was near the road; I don't think it's there anymore, as there was a bulldozer at the ready and it looked like the landowners were taking it down. It also looked as though someone might have been living in it.

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This set is all of Kate's fish tank, taken when the sun was coming in the window behind and to the left. Some of the effects are due to doubled or tripled reflections from the side, front and rear tank glass, others are, well, as they are.

Those fish are pretty nippy, too.

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We went to Kelowna, in the Okanagan region, in late April. Our friends were then living in a little house by an apple orchard on the lake shore. The trees were just coming into flower; seems like everything was.

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Hiking through Belcarra Regional Park, on a sunny, warm April afternoon. It was a day of little things.

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Last Sunday we wandered out to see the Seymour Demonstration Forest above North Vancouver on Seymour Mountain and then hiked along Lynn Creek. (They're right next to each other.)

Nola pointed this out; we both thought it exceedingly wonderful. Stumps often curl themselves into fantastic shapes and this is one of the better ones.

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We went back out to Golden Ears last Saturday evening for a birthday picnic on the shore of Alouette Lake.

This view is looking north from the shore.

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Last weekend (Friday, Good Friday, in fact) we went to Golden Ears Provincial Park and hiked up the trail that parallels Gold Creek to see the falls upstream. They were very pretty, and worth the walk. As was everything else we found on the way there and back.

This little pool was fed by a tiny trickle that came from who knows where. From higher up, is my guess.

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