Slow down for fun

May 08, 2015 08:10

The walks are longer and longer as the length of daylight is. The forest beckons by its fabulousness:


The wet season has just ended and the forest here is full of ponds inhabited by salamanders:


You can see them. Look carefully, they are there :)



Scotch broom looks fantastic these days:


But I am heading to other attractive bushes. Salmonberries began to ripen:


More fragrant and sweet thimbleberries are in full bloom:


The path led me to the river where Indian canoe was observed:


Kirkland Island divides South Arm of Fraser here:


Large ships float by:


Pushing river water to the ocean:


I started to sing something like: “in the banana-lemon Singapore, when the ocean roars and cries” after seeing this:


The wind brought a wonderful smell and of dog-roses:


But then this nostalgic smell was supplanted by another one:


Communists are living in this house, but they were not at home and I went inside:


Cozy place:


Do you see the papers in the frame above the bed? It’s the proof that they are communists:


Middle Arm of Fraser with CV-580 above:


By the way, this is the Il-14’s peer that still flying. I am waiting Anton to finish his exercises. He is rowing in the first boat, the fourth (stern) position:


Another CV-580 attracted my attention:


Suddenly, without any obvious reason, I thought that it’s so good that the red menace of communism was suppressed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the Battle of Ballantyne Pier in 1935 brutally and forever. Then it puzzled me, why and how did this thought emerge in my head? There is no clear answer. But thinking a little bit on the subject I linked this CV-580 with the Il-14 and their different fates in different worlds, civilized and post-communistic. It’s really interesting to compare life of similar machines in different social environments. By the way, this is not the first time when my thoughts of social life are linked to fate of machines. Pictures and life stories of 727 and Tu-154 are mentioned many times in this journal.

Victory in Europe celebration events are presented on CBC. And something very strange and incomprehensible is happening in Russia. What they are celebrating there is not clear for me now.

flowers, berry, westcoast life, aviation, victory day, national identity, forest, boat

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