A crow reads a sign:
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| Yes, of course crows can read. They're smart! |
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| See, he approves. Left his signature! |
On a hot day in July ...
So says the sign beside the parking lot at Elk Falls. It seemed a bit out of context this week.
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| Campbell River Fire information sign. |
Sign text: "On a hot day in July 1938, an ominous smoke pillar near Gosling Lake signalled a forest fire which was to ravage 115 square miles of logged and timbered land. Over 1500 firefighters battled grimly for weeks to save timber and communities. Costs and damages were enormous. Reforestation, intensified by the Forest Service, helped to heal the black scar. Province of British Columbia 1966"
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| First bridge, with dog walker. And dogs. |
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| Looking back to the parking lot. The building just visible is the park information centre. |
Texto del letrero: "Incendio de Campbell River. En un dia caluroso de julio de 1938, una columna de humo amenazadora cerca del lago Gosling señaló un incendio que iba a destrozar 115 millas cuadradas de bosque y areas ya cosechadas. Más de 1500 bomberos lucharon fuertemente por semanas para proteger los bosques y las comunidades. Los costos y los daños fueron enormes. La reforestación, con la asistencia del Servicio Forestal, ayudó a sanar la negra cicatriz. La Provincia de Colombia Británica, 1966"
Crucé el puente y subí el cerrito, siguiendo unos pasos bien hundidos en la nieve hasta el borde del bosque.
Tercera foto: mirando atrás, hacia el estacionamiento, y la casita de informes del parque.
Los pasos seguían para adentro del bosque. Yo no.
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| In an abandoned cement ring, water, seeds and other detritus is caught in a spider web. I liked the patterns reflected in the water droplets. |
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| Just a dying leaf, belly up. |
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| Zooming in to show the pattern |
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| Leaves and a Nike hoodie. I often find good clothes here, just dropped as if on a bedroom floor. |
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| Well, fire-starting stuff, anyway. Part of a 4'x8' sign for "Luxury Duplexes". |
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| Face under leaves. Another part of the sign. |
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| In a dry summer, an angel dreams of days when her pool was full. York Road, Campbell River, 2009. |
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| Is that a ... turtle?! Photo from Laurie's old film camera, pre-2006. Boundary Bay. |
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| Rotting ball, White Rock beach, April 2009. |
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| I posted this on the blog in August of 2010; I think it's a feather duster worm. The photo was messy and dark, but a few quick tricks with Elements (Ted's first two) brought it to life. |
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| Same worm, clearer pose. It's about an inch and a half long. |
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| Lion, in the jumbled entrance of a house in Finn Slough. The background camouflaged the lion in front; a pity, because I think he's beautiful. I finally figured out how to use the selection tool, masked the lion, and blended the mess. Simple, now I know how. October, 2010. |
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| Signs in the corner of a store window in Strathcona. April, 2011. |
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| 1980s photo, taken with one of those little Kodachromes, much faded with age. Scanned and cleaned up, it's passable. This is my younger son rototilling a patch of swamp land we were draining and reclaiming. Wonderful soil! That first year, I had 7 boxes of tomatoes to can. Firvale, the Bella Coola valley, BC. |
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| Straw "painting" I brought back from Mexico in the 1970s. Cheating here; I threw out all my old photos, and took a new one now that I have a better camera and a decent flash. For the first time, the straw came out as straw, and Elements cleaned up the edges nicely. |
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| What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? |
High-ranking families would keep houses at both locations. The Sliammon people traveled by water, searching out the best places to fish, hunt, pick berries or dig roots. Some of the locations were simply over-night campsites while others became seasonal villages with spacious houses constructed from the giant red cedars that were abundant along the shores. Evidence of these sites is easy to locate by the presence of shell middens (Layers of shells and earth accumulated along the shoreline from thousand of years of discarded seashells). (Discover Powell River)Where the present name came from is anyone's guess.
This name appears on 1880's Admiralty Charts, but the origin is unknown. Perhaps a smallpox epidemic ... or a ship wreck are possibilities. (Powell River Museum)
