SOME PHOTOS DURING OUR RAIN YESTERDAY AND A WALK UP THE RIVER THIS MORNING.

Looking up on the mountain from our deck in the rain.

Looking up on the mountain from our deck in the rain.

Looking up on the mountain from our deck in the rain.

Looking up on the mountain from our deck in the rain.

Our flower bed from the porch during the rain.

Say's Phoebe.

Toadflax.

Iris.

Great Blue Heron.

Great Blue Heron.

Great Blue Heron.

Great Blue Heron.

Mallard drake.

RECENT PHOTOS FROM THE OKANAGAN FALLS AREA.

See Ya Later vineyard.

Evening light in the vineyard.

Spotted Sandpiper.

California Quail.

California Quail.

Northern Rough-winged Swallow.

Northern Rough-winged Swallow.

Barn Swallow.

Female Red-winged Blackbird.

Song Sparrow.

Muskrat.

Muskrat.

Northern Yellow Warbler.

Northern Yellow Warbler.

Pale Swallowtail.

A tenacious Ponderosa Pine.

End of the road.

SOME PHOTOS FROM RECENT WALKS FROM HOME.

Osprey.

Great Blue Heron.

Great Blue Heron.

Female Spotted Towhee.

Female Spotted Towhee.

Salsify.

Bitterroot.

Female Spotted Towhee.

Willow.

Iris in an untended flower bed.

Only two baby geese here.

Goldenrod Crab Orb Spider on a Common Yarrow flower.

WE WENT FOR A RIDE IN THE HILLS SATURDAY MAY 9.

Scarlet Gilia.

Indian Paintbrush.

Indian Paintbrush.

Indian Paintbrush.

Canada Geese.

Hunt's Bumblebee.

Hunt's Bumblebee.

Fleabane.

Balsamroot.

Penstemon.

Western Painted Turtles.

Western Painted Turtle.

Mallard through the arch.

Mountain Ladyslipper.

Mountain Ladyslipper.

Canada Violet.

This was oozing out of a wound in a Poplar tree.

I spotted these Canada Geese when I walked up the river trail last night.

Great Blue Heron last evening.

There was a massive hatch of flies yesterday and my walk along the river wasn't fun.  The flies just clustered all around me and were bouncing off my whole body.  I was afraid  to breathe deeply for fear of ingesting some.