Georgie-Porgie Geo cache trip to McGlashen Lake

On Sunday afternoon we drove up to the Campbell Lake - Monte hills area to do the Georgie Porgie series of caches and explore some new roads.  We found all the caches and found some roads that we had never been on before.

This is the large mudhole near the top that we drove through and came out on the George main road.  The silver nano in the tree is the first Georgie-Porgie cache.

This old cabin was down a road that was blocked off because of the swift moving creek.

These are some of the caches along a really pretty ridge overlooking the creek. The grass was really high in this area and the trees were very large and old.

Georgie-Porgie caches.

After we found the caches we carried on and found the road to McGlashen Lake. We had never been there before because we thought the road would be too rough, and we weren't sure where the road was. The lake is beautifu,l with lots of granite cliffs and shoreline. We'll be coming back a lot I'm sure. It turned out to be only 40 min. from our house.

Our route with the roads that we found.

WIP Wednesday

Here are some pictures of works in progress in my  studio.

  

The last painted silk warp on the baby wolf.

Some silk scarves waiting to have the fringe twisted.

The last of 6 placemats in the Kamloops Gold colourway/kaki on my big loom. I still have to weave gold and ivory. There is enough warp for 14 more mats and 2 runners.

The chenille warp for  puckered shawls and poncho on my 45" loom.

A 2/8 cotton warp ready to go on Shelley for tea towels in huck lace.

Sunday trip to Chase area

On Sunday we drove out towards Chase, on the other side of the river, to do some Geo caching and to find some rocks for our pond. The day was lovely, one of the first warm, almost summer like days we've had this year.

These pictures are from a cache in the hills above Pritchard on the north side of the river.  Martin Mountain is still snow covered in the background. The grasslands are really green right now and a lot of the flowers are over. The Balsam Root that normally covers these hills didn't do very well this year and is a lot smaller than normal.

The South Thompson river from the bridge at Pritchard. The river has come up a lot in the last few weeks, but still has a long way to go.

A view of Niskonlith lake near Chase, looking east. Some of the dead trees from the fire in 2003 can be seen in this picture.

My 20 minute sketch of the same view while Rick was looking at plants

An early bunch of Paintbrush flowers blooming in the shade and a single late Arnica flower. We also saw Penstemon, Lupine and Larkspur blooming.

Last day of April

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Some random pictures from our yard yesterday on the last day of April. I love the light in April and the evening skies have been so pretty.
We've had a lot of birds in our yard this spring, more than usual it seems. We've had one pair of Goldfinches at the feeder all week.

Colours of April

April has been mostly a beautiful month with lots of warm days and a few cold, almost snowy days thrown in.

 Early in the month the mountains had new snow and the trees had new spring green leaves

Our yard has beautiful flowers and bright green grass.

flowering almond                   apricot tree

The hills in the main valley around Kamloops are starting to turn green, but higher up there is still not much growth and there is still snow around.

April showers have meant lots of golden light against dark skies.  These pictures are looking at the trees behind our house from our sundeck at 8 pm one night.

Sue at lifeloomslarge.blogspot.com/ has more pictures of the colours of the month from around the world. It's fun to look at all the flowers blooming.

Tuesday Studio Pictures

She arrives in my studio to supervise like clockwork everyday at 3:30.

 I'm afraid I'm going to cut her tail with the rotary cutter.

The last of the silk scarf on the loom. I finished this warp today and will put another on tomorrow.

Geocaching on Sunday April 18

We were supposed to be replacing windows in our house this weekend , but they did not get delivered in time. Instead we did a short geocaching trip in the hills behind Barnhatvale on Sunday. There were a lot of campers at Scuitto lake, which was open of ice. The hills higher up still looked like early spring, with out much growth.

Katie at Scuitto falls. The cache is in this picture.

The view from the Old Campbell Range school cache.

Gus's Rat Barn cache --- a very pretty meadow and old homestead that we had never been to before.

View from Buse Hill. There were 2 caches up here.

This was probably the last caching trip for awhile because we are going to be busy with household chores and gardening.