High Water

The bridge over the karenegare ("dry" river bed) at the Kohan Garden.

Community greenhouse construction

Bears and cherries

Off and paddling

The second team through CheckPoint 6 heads out on the lake for a 23 km paddle after spending the past 26 hours trekking and mountain-biking through the mountains from the north.

Raid the North Transition Area

Bikes are left in the transition area by teams who have taken up the first paddling leg of the race. GPS navigation is not allowed so traditional compass and topo map navigation skills are required.

Raid the North

An array of 39 canoes awaits the arrival of teams participating in Raid the North Extreme, a 6-day, 500 km adventure race.

More Lupins

The lake is so high right now that the lupins have wet feet.

Secret Lupin Garden

Little shop of horrors?

This is the back window of the hardware store annex, the part of the business used for storage of little-used stock. What is going on in there?

Polar Pete

???

I guess we'll know next Saturday.

Groceries

The new grocery store is open, floors gleaming and shelves well-stocked.

Carpenter Creek

That tiny white stripe, up close. Islands swamped by logs and rushing water, cold and clear and flecked with glacial silt.

Looking down Carpenter

The tiny white stripe is Carpenter Creek, which runs into Slocan Lake from here. 

Alamo

The town once known as Alamo, BC, gateway to the boomtown of Sandon, once stood here on a railway siding.

First Friday Market of the Season

Soccer

Warming up for a soccer match at Centennial park, with lake, mountains and clouds in the background. 

Kids on Parade

Children on a float in the May Day Parade.

RCMP

Leading the May Day parade in their red dress serge, the two officers who staff our local Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment.

Royalty

An anachronism about which many have mixed feelings to say the least, but the May Queen Pagaent is a local institution that continues strong.

Bubble World

Today at Centennial Park during the soccer game, kids of all ages on the sidelines were blowing and chasing bubbles. The day was dreary but you would never know it from the reflection of trees, houses, hills and sky in this bubble.

May Long Weekend

A Better Bosun

The restoration of the facade is almost complete. A great improvement from what was there last fall!

Kohan Pond

Oregon Grape in bloom

Cherry blossoms 3

Waves

Willow at the Kohan Garden

Cherry blossoms 2

Cherry blossoms 1

Cherry tree reflected in a window at the hospital.

Unfurling leaves