Goodes Creek Canyon Trail 2007

During our 2007 sojourn to the Okanagan, we visited more friends in Kelowna that we have known for many years. We went out again on an enjoyable painting day with the same motorboat. The Okanagan Lake Valley Parklands has many historical trails dating back to 1860. Our painting destination for that day would be along Goodes Creek Canyon not to far from Wild Horse Canyon. This lovely impressionistic oil painting was done along the trail at Goodes Creek Canyon. That's where we picnicked and I love all the subtleties in the colors of the small trees and the sunlight dancing throughout the leaves; with that hot desert breeze coming in from the parklands.

Natures Flower Pot 2012

This spruce tree had fallen,
Years gone by but never sullen,
Even the screamers silenced,
With a worn back down past,
We'd hike towards the Nisnak trail,
Reach for the end of this and prevail,
This natures vessel never discarded,
But reused and to replace,
Its desiccated remains forgotten,
For the once found place,
In this forest floors domain,
Only these woods with their forest so old and overgrown,
Schoen Lake with its mountain and parkland known,
A cavity in that trunk,
Filled with the herbage sunken,
This is natures flower pot filled,
Now all those ferns, ivies and wild geraniums so stilled.