Welcome to my second Sunday Edition sharing photos of snowy southeastern British Columbia, Canada. These photos were taken other years, since I had so many lovely ones and I wasn’t sure what I might be able to capture this year. We did have a very nice snowfall Wednesday this week, though, of about four or […]

Welcome to January! Over the next few weeks’ worth of Sunday Editions, I’ll be sharing winter photos of my part of the world (southeastern British Columbia, Canada). This one is of a bridge in a park nearby where we hike in the summer and snowshoe in winter. Some years we don’t have a lot of […]

Welcome to December! Crazy to think we are only a few weeks from Christmas. Is your tree already up? Your Christmas shopping done? Do you do any Christmas baking? Drop a comment in and let us know what you’re up to in your preparation! Winners this Week If you’re a winner, you should have received […]

Seeing porpoises, orcas, seals, otters, and humpback whales was the highlight of our trip to BC’s Sunshine Coast. We saw humpbacks on three different occasions, but the most spectacular was on the boat ride back from Desolation Sound (see previous weeks’ Sunday Editions!) when our guide gave us the scenic tour and we came upon […]

The waters of Desolation Sound are very sheltered, which results in nearly glassy reflections and utmost peacefulness. The only manmade sounds were the lodge boats coming and going and the generator kicking in in the background. Otherwise, we chatted with the other guests and listened to the calls of loons, ducks, and geese, watched fish […]

After a few days entertaining ourselves along the coast, we caught a water taxi to Homfray Lodge, a 90-minute boat ride up into an area called Desolation Sound. It is aptly named — far from “civilization” for sure! We shared the lodge with an older couple from Denmark, Erica Terpstra and her Dutch film crew […]