Spectacular Spring

Now that summer has arrived, according to the calendar, late spring is underway here in the high pass country of Crowsnest Pass, Alberta.  No more snow clouds- those gray stratus blankets.  We have had the more interesting and varied cumulus with their white marshmallow, grey to thunderhead black varieties. Indeed though there has been lots of water passing by overhead, we have not had so much here.  It has rolled down onto the prairie floor and spilled all over southern Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Now that seems to have passed by we can enjoy spring in summer.  I say spring because the lilacs are just out! Back in Sicamous in the Shuswap Lake area of British Columbia, my lilacs were finished before June.  Even much father north, in Prince George, but at a much lower elevation, they began and finished a fews days later in the first week of June.  But here, where it has been cold, even frosty some mornings, they are just coming out! They join the apples, which have been blooming since the first week of June!