I have just returned from South America where i witnessed my eighth Total Solar Eclipse of the Sun on July 2nd,in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Here is my picture of the diamond ring which occurs as the sun disappears behind the sun, in this case for 2 1/2 minutes or as Pat likes […]
Archives for July 2019
Want to have a ride in this? – around Area 27 track
Thursday August 1st 10:30 am Speed for a good cause! The idea is to raise funds for the OSNS Child and Youth Development Centre in Penticton. Tickets range from $100 to $400, depending on the vehicle, and passengers must be 16 years and older. General admission tickets cost $20. If you’ve ever dreamt of putting […]
Saturday photos
Blue and Green – fire rating in most of BC
event cancelled – did a make up on another event
remedy 4 of 4 July
Praemonitus, Praemunitus –
Over the Horizon Previously I wrote when expressing what I want in a candidate, “I would rather you see over the horizon than to the horizon”. Let’s look more closely. The phrase ‘temporal exhaustion’ means being mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present and having no energy left for imagining […]
by Jessica Murphy
THE LIGHT AT OLD GROUCHY Roiling fog banks slithered around the rocks of Old Grouchy, obscuring the cliffs one minute, then parting to let a shaft of sunlight touch the island’s one grassy knoll. No beaches, not even rocky ones soften Old Grouchy. Fisheries and Oceans Canada had, many decades ago, built a stone and […]