Pocketful of Memory Cards

As I type this post, CBC Radio's Alya Ramadan is telling me the weather is a mixed bag in the BC Interior today.  Spring is as unpredictable as ever.  Temperatures rose to the 20's on Wednesday and Thursday last week, but dropped to single digits on the weekend.  Winter driving conditions returned to mountain highways as The Coquihalla and Roger's Pass received heavy snowfall last night.  I look to the west and I can see a ribbon of blue sky above the mountains but a curtain of ominous grey threatens from above.  It's five degrees and they're calling for rain later today. I don't know about you, but the weather has a much stronger effect on my mood and motivation than I would like.  Looking west again, that ribbon of blue is now a narrow wisp and the grey haze has almost taken over. Oops....there it goes.  It looks like it's snowing up there now.  My first thought is that I fear I'm not going to get much done today and my second thought is t...

LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. A. E. Housman (1859 – 1936)

 Artist Nicole Young at SOPA's Under 8 show.   The top left painting is one of the two she has in the show.  Used the last jar of canned tomatoes from 2012 this week.    Writing, writing, writing... Breakfast with my daughter at the Greyhound bus depot The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house All that cold, cold, wet day Sad to say I missed the peak of blossoms on this lovely cherry tree in a back lane off of Ethel near Raymer. The good news is there are still lots of cherry trees in the upper mission yet to begin blooming so I'll get another chance.

Though it's been a very grey April, there is much to be thankful for: I'm grateful the cherry and magnolia trees are in bloom.  It's a treat to come across the beautiful pink and white blossoms as you drive around the city. I'm grateful I had so many hits on  yesterday's  blog post.  I'm not sure why I did, but I'm grateful! I am grateful for the sunny evenings we've been having.  There's been an odd pattern over the past three or four days where it's cold and grey during the day and then right around supper time the sun breaks through and gives me a little lift. I am grateful for the inclement weather this weekend because I spent it catching up on my housework. I am grateful my home printer had enough ink in it to print out my latest version of the memoir.  It was just getting too time consuming to scroll through almost 300 pages of text.  There are definite advantages to a hard copy. I'm grateful to live in a country...