Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron
The hills and mountains look mysterious, but there’s not a lot to love about the wildfire smoke earlier this week.
This is a late morning colour photograph looking towards Active Pass; above the smoke it’s a clear blue sky (I’m told).
Here’s what this Salt Spring view normally looks like.
Fresh from Salt Spring Farms
Perhaps not the enormous, beautiful, genetically modified, greenhouse grown berries you can get at the grocery store, but man they are delicious!
A visitor waits in the shade of downtown Ganges.
He told me—smiling as he said it—that he’s learning patience from his canine friend.
North towards Nanaimo
A tinder dry hike to the Mount Erskine summit reveals the extensive wildfire smoke in the air.
South West toward Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island
* bonus update
Here’s a view of the sun from the ‘clothesline observation platform’ at our house. This is the Sun through some Arbutus branches. I’ve not seen the sky and sun like this. Very smoky up the mountain where we live. Lots of haze down at ocean level, but no smoke smell there tonight.
We’ve seen this shed before, but since there’s been a major addition to the scene (artfully arranged ladder and shadow), I just had to share it with you.