You know... I do believe I got it right this time!
lol

Yay!



??? Egad! This is just a single clip!!! AAAARGH!

Hummingbirds

Forgive the fuzzy glarish look to this video clip. I took it through the dusty (dirty) kitchen window into a setting sun. Will try again in the morning when the glare should be a bit less.....



Aaaagh!! - how do you rotate a video????? If anyone knows, please post a comment on how!!

stormy weather

The last few nights there have been lightning storms here in Barriere. Monday evening in particular, the storm blew in around 5:30-ish. We were sitting down at the kitchen table finishing dinner, when the trees by the driveway started waving like crazy. Moments later it started pelting down rain and then the thunder started. Just after 6:00 or so there was one particularly loud and rumbly roar of thunder.
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Then I went to the District Council meeting at 6:45 and heard that a lightning strike took out all the electrical equipment at the pumphouse. The pumphouse is where the water is pumped out of the wells and/or reservoir into the Barriere water system. Until all the damaged electronics get replaced, they will have someone there 24/7 to do everything manually.

And some garden pictures....

Here's a general shot of the backyard... the grass is longer now than when I took this picture. (SIGH) I will have to mow this weekend!

Here's the tree that's in the front yard. It's either a quince or crab apple, or something similar.

And these are the tulips that grow below the kitchen windows. They've finished blooming now and don't look nearly so nice as they did a few weeks ago when I took this picture.

a lovely sky

These are some pics of what the sky was like on Tuesday, May 18, on the way home from Kamloops. Lovely!!!