rainymountain's Journal

8.10am Yesterday reached 28C and today was maybe a degree or so hotter. A beautiful day, clear blue sky and no smoke. The reason why the poplars have their autumny smell this early is that their leaves are dry and falling because of the long dry spell. In my garden I turned on the soaker hose for...

7.08 am Yesterday the cloud makers were at it – long streamers of billowing cumulus rising off the peaks against a sky streaked with horse-tails for the second day running. Four eagles riding the wind currents, probably golden eagles. They can travel at 140mph for days if they catch the rig...

A damp humid day, light rain enough to make everything look damp but not enough to put water in the bucket or raise the floater in my rain gauge. The high today was 18 or 19C, at the top of Mt. Revelstoke it was 7C, and on Mt Begbie the ice wall at the front of the small glaciers was very visible...

4.35 pm A lot of smoke today, you can see it in the photos with the blue hazing of the distance and no mountains. My parsimonious self would not consider drying the washing in the dryer so it all smells as though it was dried over a wood fire and my throat feels well smoked too, and probably the ...

5.44 pm Came out of the arcade to our local supermarket and saw a column of smoke rising to form its own cloud above the long ridge of peaks south of Mt. Begbie – apparently there is a fire at Mulvehouse Creek, that’s maybe half-way to the Galina Ferry, as yet only a small one. Hand-w...