Under the Cherry Blossoms

 

The Williams Lake Community Band's virtual performance of Under the Cherry Blossoms is on Youtube.

It was not a live performance; we each recorded our tapes separately and then our band conductor, Laura, stitched them altogether.

I recorded a ton of tapes before I got one I deemed acceptable.  Of course no one can hear me individually once it's all put together.

It was a fun little project that gave me a reason to practice my trombone.

Last Hurrah

 

Sunday may have been the last significant snowfall of the year.  It's March 1 and the forecast is for above freezing for the rest of the week. Its sunny out today and melting like crazy.

Here's some rabbit prints from our walk in fresh snow on Saturday.

Butter Wouldn't Melt in my Mouth

 

Have you wondered why your butter doesn't soften at room temperature anymore?

In recent years when I've made Christmas cookies with butter, sugar and flour they just won't hold together without adding liquid.  Apparently this is because dairy farmers are adding palm oil to their cows' feed.  Check out this CBC article.

I try to avoid products with palm oil (pretty much all processed food) because it leads to the destruction of tropical forests.

But wait!  According to this article,  Giving up Palm Oil might Actually be Bad for the Environment!, palm oil causes less global warming than alternate products!

What's a woke person to do? 

Actually that Smithsonian article sounds suspiciously like maybe they're getting donations from the palm oil industry.  And there's still the problem of butter that won't melt on my toast.

I'm switching to organic.

More Primula

 

They put the Valentines Day flowers on sale so Leo went to the grocery store and came home with 5 more plants.  We can plant them in the garden come spring.  They make a nice display on our coffee table.

National Parks Tour of Eastern Australia

 

Our Zoom slideshow for the Williams Lake Naturalists is on Youtube!  Here is the link:

https://youtu.be/3C1045tLLCc

It's painful to watch (and 1-1/2 hours long) but you can check it out if you like.

Happy Valentines Day

 Leo gave me red velvet cupcakes and a pot of very pretty primula I can plant in the garden come spring.

Its finally warmed up enough I can go for a walk outside again.

Dump of Snow

 

Walking toward Scout Island

Finally a decent amount of snow fell in the last week.  Leo's been up skiing at Bull Mountain everyday, including helping with school groups.

The creek valley is looking lovely with the fresh snow:

We finally got our cold spell on Monday, we woke upto -21C with cold temperatures expected to last for the rest of the week.