CONTINUING ON WITH OUR SUNDAY DRIVE AND TODAY IS OUR 59TH ANNIVERSARY.

Amazing to still be best friends after all these years!  It's over 62 years since we started dating.  

Continuing on from Kay Falls, our next stop was Three Valley Gap Lake where the wind was blowing very strong.  The wind surfers thought it was great and were having a stellar ride.  Rather than staying on the highway with all the traffic, we decided to take the Three Valley-Mabel Lake forest service road to loop back toward Salmon Arm.  There were very few other vehicles all the way and we enjoyed the drive.  Lunch was on a side road and there wasn't a human sound the whole time.

Hawkweed leaves.

Hawkweed leaves.

Hawkweed leaves.

Bracken.

Fireweed.

Thimbleberry leaf.

Backlit moss on a stump in the dark forest.

Tent caterpillars encapsulated these elderberries. 

Tent caterpillars encapsulated these elderberries. 

Wap Creek.

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER WATERFALL!

On Sunday October 4 we took a drive east of Salmon Arm.  It was a foggy start but the sun came out and the temperature rose making a very pleasant day.  We drove Highway 1 to Sicamous then took a side road paralleling the highway for several miles.  Back on the highway, we stopped at Kay Falls which used to be very visible from the road but is now grown in.  There is a sketchy trail to the bottom of the falls but then you're so close that the spray coats the camera lens. 

Spider web with nobody home.

As the fog was lifting.

Kay Falls.

Kay Falls.

Kay Falls.

Kay Falls.

Kay Falls.

Kay Falls.

WE DIDN'T STAY HOME LONG.

We had some visiting to do in the Salmon Arm area so we took the motorhome and are spending five nights here.  We went to one of the best waterfalls in the area this morning.

Male Downy Woodpecker, Secrest Hill Road, Oliver.

Male Downy Woodpecker, Secrest Hill Road, Oliver.

Juniper Dunes Jerusalem Cricket, Secrest Hill Road.

Juniper Dunes Jerusalem Cricket, Secrest Hill Road.

Margaret Falls, Herald Provincial Park, near Salmon Arm.

Margaret Falls, Herald Provincial Park, near Salmon Arm.

Margaret Falls, Herald Provincial Park, near Salmon Arm.

WE TOOK THE ATV FOR A RIDE IN THE HILLS YESTERDAY.

Shaggy Mane.

Shaggy Manes.

Puffball.

A bear dug out a wasp or hornet nest.

A bear dug out a wasp or hornet nest.

Milkweed seedpod has burst open.

Ripley Lake.

Madden Lake.

Madden Lake.

Burnell Lake.

Burnell Lake.

Burnell Lake.

WE'RE BACK HOME AND FIRST DRIVE TO CHECK OUT FALL COLOUR.

We headed to Vancouver Island on August 5 to visit family and explore some places and arrived home September 22.  After a brisk rain yesterday afternoon, I glanced out the window and saw the sun shining in the clearing mist on Eagle Bluff which is across the highway from McIntyre Bluff.  I grabbed a camera and rushed across the street to try and capture what I was seeing.

Today we took a drive up toward Mt Baldy to see what the larches were doing.  They will be a couple weeks or longer before reaching peak colour I suspect.  Some of the poplars were looking pretty good though.

Poison Ivy along the Okanagan River.

Eagle Bluff.

Eagle Bluff.

Eagle Bluff.

Eagle Bluff.

Pollen on the edge of a pond.

Along the Mt Baldy Road.

A bit of snow on Mt Baldy today.

Along the Mt Baldy Road.

Sidley Mtn area.

Osoyoos from Anarchist Mtn.