still cold and blustery

Today I came home from the campaign office and put my woolies on.

first hardening off

These are the first of the seedlings to be hardened off for planting outside. There's a row of laburnum trees, brassicas and celeriac.

A fight we won.

We've had our fights in this valley. The Friends of the Similkameen come together really fast when we have to defend ourselves - often from our own government. We won this fight and one before that. Now we have two new ones to contend with.

One horse town.

Keremeos is our nearest town. It's a 10 or 15 minute drive from Cawston. Its downtown core is 2 blocks long. This is not an unusual sight.

Keremeos main street

Looking across the street from our NDP office in Keremeos, our nearest small town.

plum blossoms

The four trees in the front are Santa Rosa plums and the rest of the row is Italian prune plums, not yet blossoming.

plum buds and apricot blossoms.

Plum blossoms just coming out and apricot blossoms dropping.

Ponderosa pine

New growth on a ponderosa pine. These are indigenous to our area and very feathery and beautiful.

After one of the hardest winters ever.

Down by the river. The local natives burn off the old growth every spring and this is the result.
Magnolias and daffodils.