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| the countryside is covered in the wild rose........ |
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| an ancient apple tree provides support for the rambling rose......... |
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| climbing the trees...... |
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| the hollow beside our house where the wild rose grows...... |
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| we have been taming the hollow....not as many mosquitoes.....but the game trail is well used by deer, coyotes, and bear....... |
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| water is still high...but the worst of the melt is over....... |
Our valley was once a place where First Nations people roamed and hunted....the Sinixt were hunter, gatherers that roamed all through out our mountainous region. After the 49th parallel was decided to be the boundary between Canada and the U.S.A. the Sinixt settled in a reservation in Washinton state. Very few First Nations people now live here. The remote, difficult to access area of the Slocan Valley has only been settled by Europeans for just over a hundred years. The fertile land had been advertised in Europe as being prime fruit growing country just waiting to be developed. A few hardy settlers arrived and planted apple trees all over the lush bench our home now sits on. Harsh winters and isolation proved too challenging for commercial enterprise so most settlers moved on.....
Our valley is still remote and isolated....so when we lost our internet connection for the last couple of weeks....I felt a tiny tinge of that isolation...panic at first...followed by acceptance...then a pleasant withdrawal into reading, gardening, creativity, early nights.......great to be back online though........I look forward to being global again......
