Fire! Fire! Giant Tulips and Long Nails!

What a fire today, this is Jennilyns first school burning down, quite a momentous event, apparently an electrical problem is the cause. Everyone got out safely, thank goodness. The schools' Canadian Flag is still flying in this picture! The shot was taken five hours after the fire started, the earlier, thick, black smoke, that could be seen from all over town was carried up and away by a strong westerly wind away from town. Remember this is 5 hours after fire broke out and the smoke in these pictures is minimal to what it was.



The smoke did cause the evacuation of some homes, and it was strange to see all the RCMP in gas masks directing traffic and lookie loo's (such as myself) away from the scene! If the wind had been easterly, it would have caused a mass evacuation of part of the city.




Unpleasant to look at, when only that morning 200 odd students were out on the playing fields, as the fire broke out at lunch time, the evacuation of the school was made easier. It is also ironic, that the school had been placed on the closure list for next year, and there was quite an outcry to keep it open.....I guess that protest has now been silenced.





I had to take a photo of these tulips, they were absolutely huge, once the petals spread, they didn't drop off for over five days, if you look at the china mug on the right, you can see the comparison.




This is a ridiculous shot, but I had to try a new medication, and within 10 days my nails grew to this extraordinary length, usually they break off. I happened to see my spa lady and she said "don't tell anyone about the meds, it would put me out of business!!!" Down side of this was, the other side effects were debilitating and I had to discontinue use!






These shots were taken from the main highway. That is the Bethel Church on Western Avenue in the background on the last shot, for those who are familiar with our city.

Quite a mixed blog, but having been sick for over 34 days (not that I am counting!) life has been a little boring to say the least. I am hoping to change that tomorrow, if I don't take a turn for the worse. I am driving south to meet "the kids" who are flying in, for our annual west coast vacation. So fingers crossed!

Easter Drive

I decided to take a drive and see what the landscape looked like "out of town". So I started heading east to Horsefly, about a 60km hop. Our temperature warmed up to a balmy 23 degrees and with the sun and blue sky, could have thought it was a summer day, then I turned the corner and saw the Caribou mountains with their heavy snowpack still in place.



Another corner and there was this pastoral view of the cows brought closer to home while the calving process goes on, there were some pretty little tikes warming themselves in these fields, although with the snow, can't imagine that ground was too warm.


Here is another one complete with overhead wires.



Around another corner and whoah!.....a rancher out exercising his Belgians, they were pretty frisky for such large horses and did not like me overtaking them, which I did quite cautiously, slowly and silently....yes, silently, it is a Toyota 4runner, very quiet running you know!!!



I threw this picture in as I have a question for those clever people out there...

This picture was taken on a drive back from Kamloops a week or so ago. I thought it was a strange phenomenon. It was getting quite late, and these spots on the windscreen were caused by this sudden, short, rain shower. They did not wash off with my windshield washer fluid at all. Very oil-like marks, but perfectly round.
They were so bad, that I had to stop at the next gas station which was about 20km further on and borrow some elbow grease in the form of a nice attendant, who produced some cleaner and papertowel, it took quite a bit of effort, but he finally managed to remove it, we decided it was "acid rain"......well some kind of pollution from the skies for sure! Anybody any ideas?

It didn't rain before or after, my windshield was clean, it spotted rain, and voila, big perfectly round rainspots on my windshield. I wonder if Captain Blog can figure it out, or is he only good at puzzles in his flying machines.

My Celebrity Look-alikes

My cool celebrity look-alike collage from MyHeritage.com. Get one for yourself.

Personality Quiz

I love this picture of Marin. Grandma Robbie took it two weeks ago while on a visit to Montreal and I have borrowed it for an "Easter blog picture".

I am so disappointed I couldn't make the flight yesterday and spend Easter with my snuggle bunnies, how silly to get ill right at the airport!

Instead, today I "took the quiz" along with my pain medication and found out that I have similar traits to my daughter, now isn't that unusual?!

I am an INFJ

The Protector


You live your life with integrity, originality, vision, and creativity.
Independent and stubborn, you rarely stray from your vision - no matter what it is.
You are an excellent listener, with almost infinite patience.
You have complex, deep feelings, and you take great care to express them.
You would make a great photographer, alternative medicine guru, or teacher.

I enjoy teaching, love photography but left that to my late husband and now my daughter, and have learned a lot about alternative medicine, but a guru?....no, well not yet.

Now, I want to try the photograph comparison to someone famous next please! Hey Bean, how does one do that?

Happy Easter everyone.