This may not mean much for those readers in warmer climes, but for those in more northern climes, well, this is why I enjoy living on Vancouver Island.

We have great skiing if you want it. Glaciers. Big mountains. Forests. And now, several weeks late, yes, that’s right, late, we have the beginning of blossoms. I took this yesterday after seeing a pair of eagles circling near my place. The last image is a neat shot of some local beach art.

So if you’ve never been here – it’s a terrible place. Definitely not worth visiting. We have a moat and no bridge to this place for a reason. It’s awful. It’s so bad that the rest of Canada doesn’t like to talk about us or to us during the winter. I’m not really sure why, unless it’s the people…