Damn it feels good. The cooler weather has been a welcome reprieve. It’s still warm for this time of year. Waking to cool air has been nice. Pretty soon we will be ‘fighting for warmth’. That’s what my son Hunter calls it, when you pull the covers over your head, and flex your muscles to keep warm. Probably why many families in the old days had so many kids before central heating.
The summers are trying, heat and tourists. Lisa and I thought it would be funny if fifty years from now, people looked at the large second homes and thought, ‘Damn, what were these folks thinking? Global warming and not an inkling of thought to try and cut back. Can you imagine the energy used to heat that monstrosity?’
It will probably never happen. The final answer to the pickle we are in will have to protect the richest. Otherwise it would have been solved long ago. It’s not that hard really.
We had breakfast behind Swansea. We took a spur away from the ruck. Plenty of bear shit on the road, they are also trying to avoid the crowds.
Even wondering cutblocks, climbing logging roads, looking for dead snags, a chicken or two crossing the road, washouts, Lisa and I looking at each other in glances, her saying, ‘you should put it in 4 wheel drive,’ and me saying, ‘I’ll put it in four wheel when we’re stuck.’
Palliser Pass 
Jim R
I like the greenery on those branches. Is it moss? And the grapes look edible. Are they?
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underswansea
Yes they are edible. Damn sour and they have a few pits. The Ktunaxa people used them for food and medicine. It’s not recommended a person eat a lot at one sitting. My friend makes jelly out of them and it’s delicious.
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mountaincoward
I was wondering whether the grapes are edible too?
It’s been a very, very cool summer up here – the south of England has had it consistently hot and are in a drought but it’s just cold and damp here all the time. I could use a bit of sun and heat!
Whenever I see a big house I just think how much it must cost to run and how much more cleaning there is to do – it certainly never makes me in any way jealous. My house is absolutely tiny and I chose it for that reason!
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underswansea
Yes they are edible. Damn sour and they have a few pits. The Ktunaxa people used them for food and medicine. It’s not recommended a person eat a lot at one sitting. My friend makes jelly out of them and it’s delicious.
I think the same when I see big houses. The big second homes we have here are mostly real estate investments. The bank offers 1% on savings while real estate has doubled in the last ten years. We are, unfortunately, beside the richest province in Canada so we get these stupid houses popping up everywhere.
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Julie@frogpondfarm
Greats shots Bob! I too wonder if those grapes are edible .. I think those bears are rather smart!
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underswansea
Yes they are edible. Damn sour and they have a few pits. The Ktunaxa people used them for food and medicine. It’s not recommended a person eat a lot at one sitting. My friend makes jelly out of them and it’s delicious.
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larrymuffin
So as we are on the subject what would you recommend to buy in a store?
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