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George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones
Thompson River at McArthur Island,
Kamloops, B.C.
In Explore 2016-12-31
McArthur Island park,
Kamloops, B.C.
Sometimes I feel so lucky to live where I do. On a small scale, because of this beautiful park just a five minute drive from my home. On a global scale, because my country has remained mainly untouched by the violence that infects so much of the world.
To the people of Istanbul ... I am so very sorry.
Kamloops, B.C., Canada
I was taking a snowy walk in a park near my home, hoping to get a few shots of the 8 deer which are wintering on the park's public golf course. Though I had seen 4 of the deer, I couldn't get a good shot and had given up and was just continuing on my walk. I rounded a corner onto the path that follows the river when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a snowy sand bar and 15 tiny little deer!
For people who are counting -- yes, there were 15 ;-) I wish I had a more powerful telephoto for a closer photo but, still, I was thrilled to get this shot. These deer are from the other side of the river since the sand bar is not connected to the park side. There was something kind of magical about seeing them, to me, anyway.
[Actually, I looked at a map and it seems it was an island the deer were on but the river is frozen over on the far side of it, allowing the deer to walk onto it.]
Thompson River,
Kamloops. B.C.
Actually, it's only a partially frozen river. The temperature has been above freezing, even overnight, for a few days now and the ice is thawing. You can see several open sections about halfway down the image. With most of the snow gone from the river ice, it gives a nice reflection of light.
Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way
~ Joni Mitchell
Thompson River at dusk
Kamloops, B.C.
View from McArthur Island, Kamloops BC
For weeks now I've been trying to get a sunset shot that didn't include the pulpmill smoke stack. Today I gave up. The reflection was just too nice.
...on the other side of the fence.
Dairy Road,
Kamloops, B.C.
As I went by these farmers' fields, I had an urge to get over the fence to the other side. Not so much because the snow looked whiter but because there were vast expanses of unbroken white snow without a single track in them. Very tempting.
EX CN CABOOSE preserved and displayed upon blocks & wheels
Cab No: 79863.
Builder: CN Pt.St.Charles
Type: Caboose
Built Date: 1976.
Location: Kamloops, BC
Kamloops is a city in south central British Columbia in Canada at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River near Kamloops Lake. It is the largest community in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District and the location of the regional district's offices. The surrounding region is more commonly referred to as the Thompson Country. It is ranked 37th on the list of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada and represents the 44th largest census agglomeration nationwide, with 90,280 residents in 2016.
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Stay Healthy
~Christie
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I have quite run out of creative titles for fence photos. :- p
Several Flickr friends have told me that the bird is a Western Kingbird. Thanks everyone!
Happy Fence Friday!
McArthur Island park,
Kamloops, B.C.
I spotted this fellow while taking my almost daily walk around the island. The park is only a few minutes drive from my place and to think I only started going there about a month ago! It's a treasure of a place.
Along Paul Lake Road
Kamloops, B.C.
Okay, so it doesn't really look like a palace. I still think the Snow Queen might live there though. Zoom in for a closer view and you'll see what I mean. ;-)
EX CN CABOOSE preserved and displayed upon blocks
Cab No: 79863.
Builder: CN Pt.St.Charles
Type: Caboose
Built Date: 1976.
Location: Kamloops, BC
Kamloops is a city in south central British Columbia in Canada at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River near Kamloops Lake. It is the largest community in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District and the location of the regional district's offices. The surrounding region is more commonly referred to as the Thompson Country. It is ranked 37th on the list of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada and represents the 44th largest census agglomeration nationwide, with 90,280 residents in 2016.
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
Stay Healthy
~Christie
*Best experienced in full screen
In the interest of full disclosure: this is the the same fence I used last Friday (see below). I'm sure you will agree though that the two snowfalls we've had in-between the two shots have transformed the scenery quite a bit.
Happy Fence Friday!
I have a penchant for rustic, rural fences. However, I thought it was high time to mix it up a bit and find a citified one I liked. And here it is: citified and sophisticated.
Right after I read the theme for this week the weather went from sunny to rainy. Every.single.day. For a week! Until this morning when there were brief periods of almost sunny. :-)
Happy Crazy Tuesday!
The sun was nice, to say nothing of just plain getting outdoors. It got me to thinking about how many times I have visited this bench and I started looking at older photos. The photo below shows how it looked in January.
Note: I just realized today is Tuesday. I honestly thought today was Monday when I posted this image, hence why I posted a bench for Happy Bench Monday. LOL That's what staying at home has done to me.
Thompson River
Kamloops BC
Explored 2020-02-27
I don't really think it is the end of winter but a person can dream...
Flickr Friday theme -- #Countryside
This is a favourite photography spot for me. I've been coming here for four years and I don't think I have ever seen the grasses looking so green, especially not in August. It's a measure of how relatively cool and wet this summer has been.
It was plenty warm enough today though at 30 C. The cows were mainly lazing in the shade of the tree with a light breeze rippling across the pond.
Near Paul Lake.
Kamloops, B.C.
Having moved back to Kamloops three years ago from a place where there is usually virtually no winter or snow (Victoria, B.C.) both are still a treat for me. On this day in mid-December spent rambling around on back roads, I reached my point of wanting to head home at about the point where this picture was taken. Lovely as it was there, my snow driving skills are still a bit weak.
Vintage old pick-you truck serves as a billboard in a farmer's field - located in the rural outskirts of Kamloops on the Vernon Hwy, WESTWOLD BRITISH COLUMBIA
Westwold is an unincorporated settlement in the Interior of British Columbia. A small farming and logging community, it is located between Kamloops and Vernon on Highway 97. The original name for the settlement was "Grand Prairie", but this was changed in 1925 with the construction of a CNR spur line to Kelowna, to avoid a station name conflict..
The diner itself appears to have mixed online reviews and seems to be closed often.
Thank-you for all the overwhelming support and many friendships.
~Christie by the River
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'Why be a copy, when you were born an original'
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.
~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happy Fence Friday!
I love this battered old fence for its imperfections. It runs up and down over small hills and gullies. In many cases it is only the barbed wire which keeps the posts standing, albeit at rakish angles.
HFF!
Thompson River
A week ago this view would have been all white and now the only snow is on the hills and only a bit of ice left on the river. We had a short period of extremely cold weather and now it's freakishly warm for the end of January. It got up to 10 C today.
Along Paul Lake road
Kamloops BC
How one place can be so beautiful I don't know but this is the fourth photo of this place that has found its way into my photostream in the past month. They are all pretty different shots too. In this shot you can see the barn and on the farthest mountain, which is probably further than it looks, you can see the ski slopes on Harper Mountain.
North Thompson river
Kamloops, B.C.
This is another picture from BTS (before the snow). Autumn is my favourite season and I am going to enjoy it for as long as I can, even if only through my photos. I liked this view for the warm, slightly rosy light of the setting sun on the hilltops and reflected in the river.
If I had wings and I could fly
I know where I would go
But right now I'll just sit here so contentedly
And watch the river flow
~ Bob Dylan
South Thompson River
Kamloops, B.C.
Frozen Thompson River,
Kamloops, B.C.
It's a rare occurrence that I am out and about at sunrise, even in the winter time when it's so much later. I was this morning but, as luck would have it, there was NO BEAUTIFUL PINK SKY sunrise. It was too cloudy. However, it was still nice photographing along the river and eventually the clouds did begin to lift and the sun began to break through.
Yes, I did say river. That white expanse is the Thompson River which is almost entirely frozen over.
Sometimes it's so hard not to anthropomorphize animals. This pair, a male and a female, were standing up on a big rock apart from the other ducks. It seemed to me that they were both trying hard to pretend not to see the other while they thought up a conversation opener.
That's fresh snow the female is standing in. Grrr...4 cm last night and more forecast for the next few days.
Thompson River
Kamloops, B.C.
About three weeks ago I posted a picture of the river in this general area and said it was low. It's still low but it's starting to fill up. In another month and a half or two months it will be high water.
Fall leaves
McArthur Island
This is another BTS (before the snow) but, actually, the snow has gone again except from the hilltops. But snow or no snow, alas the trees and leaves no longer look like this.
Paul Lake road
Kamloops, B.C.
Twice now on different trips to this area, I have stopped at this point along the road and tried to capture the wonderful view of this valley in the distance. I just can't seem to get it. This particular shot was an accident. I messed up with the focus on my new camera. *blush* But now I've decided I like it, especially since it adds to the mystique of the elusive valley shot.
For those who like to enjoy the snow.
I first discovered and photographed this bench about three years ago. I thought it was so charming a bench and I could not wait to see it in summer too. But when summer came, it was a great disappointment. There was graffiti and bird poop all over it. :-/
This is my first go at using Lightroom which I just got a few hours ago. A picture of lightning seemed to be a very fitting subject for Lightroom somehow. :-) I played with a few adjustments to colour (though not very much), adjusted the tilt of the image as the horizon was previously crooked and cropped it.
This is a picture I took from my balcony with my iPad a few years ago. The lightning put on quite a show that evening for a good hour and a half before the rain started. Dry lightning storms (actually a misnomer since rain is produced but turns to vapour quickly) happen occasionally where I live since it is very hot and dry in the summer. The area is classed as semi-arid.
I often think to myself "I live in the most beautiful place in the world". And I wonder if it's just because it's my home that I think that or if it really is objectively. I think the answer is that the two things are all caught up together and one informs the other.
Thompson River,
Kamloops, B.C.
I can't believe how low the river is. We need the snowpack on the mountains and hills to start melting and slowly filling up the water level. High water won't come till June.
Along the Thompson River
near Tranquille Farms
Kamloops, B.C.
In Explore 2017-03-06
Sometimes even though the sky is completely clouded over the world doesn't seem grey and dingy. Things can still seem bright and good. And even though the lands and trees are brown, you know they're not dead but full of life waiting to burst forth.
The view from the Rivers Trail. The trail is a 40+ kilometre system of paved walking paths which meander along the banks of the Thompson and North Thompson Rivers.
If I recall correctly, this photo was taken soon after our first snowfall of the season. And it's funny, but I think there was more snow back then than there is now, even after a little snowfall this afternoon.
I just love the look of the female mallards. And I know this is silly anthropomorphizing but... they just seem so gentle and sweet. :-)
McArthur Island Park
Kamloops, B.C.
I was reminded of the Robert Frost poem as I did a bit of processing on this image. I'm not sure why because the poem is about a snowy evening! Anyway, these woods are surely deserving of a poem too.
I've been trying to get a decent picture of the deer ever since I heard that about 8 of them were wintering in the park about a week and a half ago. Finally, success! I wish I could have gotten in just a bit closer (or had a better telephoto lens) but this will do very nicely for now. :-)