Morning Hike with Tom along Mission Creek in Kelowna

It snowed last night.  This was the scene along Mission Creek this morning.

It's only 4 km, sometimes around 6 if we are ambitious.  We meet three times a week, at 8:30 am, and walk along the well-worn path known as the Mission Creek Greenway.  There are over 16 km of trails so far, and that will be expanded to about 26 km in the near future.  The section we do is somewhere between 2-4 km, depending on whether it is the short or long version.

The trees were thick with the snow from the preceding evening's weather event.  They were shedding their snowy crowns as we hiked; we both got pelted by tree-launched snowballs, one of them landing square on my neck, which then had the audacity to trickle along my spine.  It was warming up.  The temperature had risen to a balmy 1° C, and the absence of wind made the whole experience rather magical.  It was really rather special.

I photographed my friend and Garibaldi Teacher acquaintance, Tom, on the path with a scene from Frozen making up the background.  My iPhone camera captured the images as HEICs, but when I downloaded them they were saved as jpegs.  I will have to download them directly from the camera instead of doing it through Messenger; the results will be much better.

Tom this morning on our walk.  What a lovely experience.

The temperature is going up to 8° C today; the snow has already left the trees and it will soon leave the ground too.  All that will be left of our snowy trek will be the photos we took.  Too bad, it was really beautiful.

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Eric Svendsen     www.ericspix.com