Saturday Afternoon in Kelowna

We found a dimsum restaurant in Kelowna for lunch.  Oddly it's got a Japanese name, Yamato, and calls itself pan-Asian.  Not a good sign, generally, but the dishes were good though there wasn't the variety you'd find in Vancouver, and we scratched our dimsum itch we've rarely satisfied since moving away from Vancouver 31(!) years ago.

Next stop was the Gellatly Nut farm in West Kelowna, a former farm and now regional park.   The nut orchard is still there and you can buy nuts or harvest your own. We've been here before; I discovered it while attending a conference at the Cove Resort next door when I was still working.  Later I came back with Leo in the fall and we harvested hazelnuts.  Fresh hazelnuts are insanely delicious.

Strolling through the nut farm

When we arrived this year the hazelnuts were finished but they had chestnuts and walnuts for sale.  We don't like chestnuts and the volunteer told us there were only a few walnuts left on the ground.  We decided we'd walk around and come back to buy some walnuts.

But on our stroll we saw lots of walnuts so went back and got a bucket and harvested our own.  It turns out fresh walnuts are also insanely delicious, and of course anything you harvest yourself tastes better.

Our harvest

We found a squirrel's cache of nuts at the base of a tree:

Hazelnuts, walnuts, and chestnuts

Just up the road from the nut farm we found another regional park, Glen Canyon, so we checked it out.

Heading out on Glen Canyon trail

There's lots of up and down stairways:

A shot into the canyon:

And the bird of the day!  Stellars Jay, BC's provincial bird.