Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron
I had a look around and saw some interesting things for sale. Actually, I’m not entirely sure what was for sale and what wasn’t. Perhaps everything if the price was right.
Everything from bottles of Wormwood Tincture to calendars of naked Salt Spring women. And a donation box for the Mud Girls.
I was hoping Jed Clampett might come along and sit a spell.
Nope.
I wonder if BC Transit has seen this.
We saw this shiny new ship from the Vesuvius ferry back on July 12th. It’s back from the far East and scooping up another batch of raw logs…
Is that a good thing?
The morning sky at Fernwood Pier, Salt Spring Island
If there’s no breeze, our west facing home doesn’t cool down a whole lot at night. So Saturday morning I woke up early and headed down to the ocean for some relief from the heat. It turned out to be a stunning view at sunrise, lots of great clouds and, thankfully…chilly! Highly recommended.
The Arbutus is Canada’s only native broadleaf evergreen tree (more info). Which just means it looks like a deciduous tree but keeps it leaves all year round. Except when they fall off, which seems to be constantly. It lives within 8 kilometres of the ocean on sunny, very well drained soil.
On a hot summer day you can almost watch the old bark curl up and fall off the tree. Also falling from each tree are about a million leaves…usually just after you’ve swept your deck. And these are leaves with attitude. They’re tough and manage to get an unyielding foothold in the space between deck boards.
So how can it be my favourite tree? What’s your favourite?
*almost forgot: although Arbutus is rarely used as lumber, it’s a favourite of woodworkers
Created by Salt Spring artist, Antonio Alonso