I am going to need about 16 days off as I will be spending a tremendous deal of that time here:

Oops. I should have zoomed in. I meant here:

Yes, Cypress Mountain, to watch a vast plethora of freestyle skiing. And no, I won’t be teaching Dawn to ski at then, but rather, watching freestyle skiing at this:

Well, to enjoy a rare day off, Dawn and I headed to Cypress today for a relaxing walk. For those of you not tuned into Vancouver, it has been one of our driest summers, and as such, it was disturbing to see some of the following today:

This “puddle” was a thriving pond last summer.
As well, some of the foliage is obviously far from healthy:



When what we really like to see is this:

And to think we complain about all the rain we get in the winter. Though I do hope the forests get more rain to end out the year. The amount of fires we’ve had lately is unbearable.
That is all.







