Provided you don’t suffer from allergies,
spring is a wonderful time of year. These past ten days, Lyle and I were
fortunate enough to enjoy the season in BC’s beautiful Okanagan Valley. It was
a perfect time to be there with the blossoms on the fruit trees and the tulips
in the gardens.
I have a difficult time seeing flowers
unless they are directly in front of me. At the beginning of April a friend
gave me a huge bunch of tulips that I kept in a vase on my kitchen table. They
were brilliant. The tulips were also out in Osoyoos where we were staying. On
one of our many walks, Lyle pointed this out to me. I had failed to see the
huge array of many coloured tulips on the ground beside the walking path. When
I knelt down to get a closer look, I also felt the satiny texture of the
petals. So soft! Lyle wondered why the flowers weren’t called “four lips”
instead of “two lips”. There were definitely four petals.
When we walked along Lakeshore Drive, we
came across a number of fruit trees with pink and white blossoms. I was
intrigued to see these close up. When we had arrived in the Okanagan it was
dusk, and the bunches of white blossoms on the trees looked more like clumps of
snow to me. I had to remind myself that
it really was spring.
There are three pictures with this post.
The first shows some of the tulips alongside Pioneer Walkway in Osoyoos.
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| Tulips along Pioneer Walkway |
The second picture is in the same location.
It shows me sitting beside a bright yellow shrub. Like many other people with
low vision, yellow is a colour that stands out for me so I felt I wanted to
share this picture with you.
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| Sue and yellow shrub |
The third picture is of one of the fruit
trees we saw along Lakeshore Drive. We found that the bees were also attracted
by the many blossoms on its branches.
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| Blossoms along Lakeshor Drive |
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