And now it is March! Around here (southeastern British Columbia) we had a few weeks of winter back in January with nasty cold temperatures and some snow. That’s all the snow that fell in the valley bottom… until we had a few inches this past week that melted just as quickly. It’s been a super unusual winter here.
Today’s photos were taken at one of our favorite fall/ winter/ spring hikes, where a short channel joins a small, shallow lake to a much larger, deeper one. And a railway trestle goes over the channel. Every time we are there, I am compelled to take a photo of that trestle! So here is one from February. Usually winter “hikes” to this spot involve snowshoes. Not so this year!
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A Great and Glorious Gift (Farm Fresh Market Romance 3) by Valerie Comer
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The Billionaire’s Wife (Billionaire Next Door 6) by Elizabeth Maddrey
February 2024
After the Frost (Seasons of Faith 5) by Milla Holt
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Valerie Comer is a USA Today bestselling author and a two-time Word Award winner who writes where food meets faith and fiction. She injects experience laced with humor into her green clean romances. Her life on a small farm in western Canada provides the seed for stories of contemporary inspirational romance. Like many of her characters, Valerie and her family grow much of their own food and are active in the local foods movement as well as their church. She only hopes her creations enjoy their happily-ever-afters as much as she does hers, shared with her husband, adult kids, and adorable granddaughters.
I love that picture! So beautiful! It looks like a lovely place to walk.
It’s weird how the weather works. For the last couple of years we had hardly any snow. Now, this year we had several winter storms providing several inches of snow.
Where I live, we hardly ever see snow. When we do, it’s normally just a flurry. Which is fine with me. I’m not a cold weather person, but I know it’s necessary for the ground to freeze for the farmers to have a good crop in the spring and summer.
It’s a beautiful picture, and it makes me a little sad that there won’t be many more. It has been an unusually hot summer here, far more so than in the previous few years.
That is a beautiful picture, I can see why it’s a favourite spot for you.
Weather here in the UK can be summed up as wet! Lots of people have had flooding, so I’m thankful we’ve been spared that, but I would like a day without rain for a change.
Happy Sunday to you all.
Love the picture!! The weather has been different everywhere, another sign of those birth pangs!!
I can’t believe we have not had much snow this year and my flowers will be blooming early. Strange weather.
Blizzard! 🥶 raining and snowing..
Spring, where are you?
Yes, this winter has been crazy here in Maine too. It’s been one of our warmest winters we’ve had. We did get a couple snowstorms but then they were followed by rainstorms and caused major flooding all over, but we’ve definitely had more rain than snow and I think we only went below zero maybe once but that was only with wind chills.
nice pic
Lots of rain and clouds here with an occasional treasure of a sunny day!
Happy Sunday, Valerie!
Thank you for the schedule of blogs and pictures!
Appreciate you!
It’s always a mystery what’s coming, right?!?!
Climates are intricate things!
Hugs, Dianne! Last summer was brutally hot here, too.
We’ve had a lot of cloudy, foggy days this winter. Sunshine is a beautiful thing!
So true, Trudy. So true.
It IS strange. Enjoy the good sides of the strangeness!
Just around the corner, they say!!! Take care.
Sounds crazy! I think of Maine as a snowy place in winter.
Thanks!
Indeed, they are treasures this time of year!
Thanks so much! And also, you’re welcome :)
Love the pic. :)
Happy Sunday!
Thanks, you, too!
Good afternoon, Thank you for sharing your beautiful photo. Here in west Texas we have had the usual weather for this time of year. We will have a really cold day and the next day it will be even hot, but that is west Texas weather for you. No snow here at all this winter, but we have been known to get some in the spring, so who knows. I guess we will just have to take the weather as it comes. Have a great day and a great week.
Taking weather as it comes is all we can do, anyway! We might as well be at peace with it…
Thanks for sharing the picture. Such a lovely scene. It is already getting to feel like spring here in NW Florida. I am sure we will have an occasional cold snap here and there though, which is fine with me since I like the cooler weather. I am definitely not ready for the summer heat yet.
Love the picture. You should publish a book with all of your beautiful pictures. Have a great, blessed week.
I’ve visited your fair state several times in the summer… and I believe you might not be ready for that heat yet!
Aw, thank you! I do make photo books for my family! But that’s it.
What a pretty location! Our winter here in southwestern Ohio has also been very mild.
Yes it usually is and I love my cold snowy winters so this one was crazy and a little sad.
Congratulations to the winners! The weather has been so strange here. We have had some sunshine and then it starts storming again.
We love it here! But I’m sure it is beautiful where you live, too.
It’s on and off sunshine and snow here today. But the snow isn’t much of anything…
Stunning photo. Thank you so much for sharing. We have had an unusual winter also. We have had more rain than snow. God bless you. Congratulations to this week’s winners.
At least you don’t have to shovel rain, right?!? Have a great week.
Looking forward to another great week!
Thank you!
It doesn’t know if it wants to be spring or winter still been having snow and rain on and off yesterday had to ride with brother to church because of snow my car is no good in cold weather. I’m ready for warmer weather.
Warmer weather is on its way! Unless you live in the southern hemisphere. Then, not so much. ;)
It’s been a weird winter here in the Midwest too. We had a very mild February, which is unusual for us.
Here, too! But it wants to be winter now!
I live in Atlanta GA, and the weather changes every day and throughout the day. We have low temperatures one day, then it’s raining, in the 60s the next or between it all in one day.
When it’s like that I start inside bcz I have respiratory issues and I’d get very ill.
I’m sorry the weather affects you so much!!! Where I grew up, we used to say if you don’t like the weather, wait ten minutes or walk across the street.
Thanks for the update.
Thanks for stopping by, Nancy!