February 27’s Friday Fleurday

It’s great to once more be posting recent floral finds for Friday Fleurday (try saying that fast three times 😉). Two weeks ago I found the tightly closed hellebores shown in the next two pictures.

Hellebores take their time blooming and when I recently walked past their location again, I found that they had begun the opening process.

Those that have opened are mostly a creamy white with a red border at the petal edges …

… although I did find one that was fully opened but did not have that distinction.

I apologise for the quality of the last two photos; it was extremely windy out and I had trouble focussing on the flowers. I’ll try to update these again as they bloom more fully. They’re such a lovely early spring find.

Happy Friday.

Evening on Skaha Lake

We had another beautifully spring-like day today and took a walk at Skaha Lake.

Skaha Lake is the smaller lake that’s at the southern end of the city; it’s shallower than the very much larger Okanagan Lake at the north end and is a beautiful swimming and boating lake in spring, summer and autumn.

On our way to the lake we saw another, very definite sign of spring: the weeping willows have turned yellow which means that green leaves are close at hand!

Happy Wednesday

It Felt Like Spring!

Yesterday we had a very spring-like day.

Windless, 10C (50F), and sun that had a little oomph going on.

It was lovely to sit in the gentle warmth and just enjoy.

My apologies to all the people throughout North America who are presently buried in snow or dealing with slush and cold rain and wind, but once spring starts, it does have a way of rolling forward, even if there’s a bit of to-ing and to-ing. It’s coming.

Sometimes, life is like that.