Mike the pictures were taken last summer I believe. But many flowers and the grass is very green and growing and the leaves in some trees are developing each single day. The plum tree looks splendid, the apple trees have little green leaves, it looks even better now than those last year pictures. Only the oak trees are still slowly resurrecting from hibernation, but they still look majestic with open view on their amazing serpentine branch shapes.
America is full of gorgeous places. And so is Europe, and Africa, and Australia, and the home of the rising sun...Japan. ...New Zealand, the Rockies, Colorado, Jasper, the Andes, the Himalayas, Alaska, the Alps, Switzerland, the Black Forest, Tofino, Long Beach, the Pacific coast. the Atlantic ocean, the trees on Vancouver Island, on the Queen Charlotte Islands, ...the world is full a gorgeous scenery and natural wildlife...we live on a beautiful blue planet.
And not everything is pink on the streets of Bogota, Mexico City, Hollywood Boulevard, and the fog hanging over the heads of the ones who live in major cities where it gets really hot and humid with the cars' emissions into the stratosphere. Black oil is soiling our planet inside out.
The Okanagan is nice, good lakes for swimming. ...Gentle valley in the mountains, and North and East and West are all nice, other valleys with bigger trees and taller mountains. ...And less people too. I have been everywhere in BC, so I know the terrain quite well.
Life's just too short to explore our entire planet and all its magic.