Life :: Community Arts Festival

Kamloops can be a beautiful place in the summer. No matter how much I complain about it - I mean, it's hot, dry, and it's a freaking desert, and looks like it... But there is so much to do around Kamloops in the summer. Winter, not so much, unless you enjoy skiing.

But, back to the thought at hand:

This year, the Kamloops Community Band was joined by the St. Ann's Academy High School band, the Kamloops Rube Band, and mascots from around the community... as well as local artists, dancers, etc for the Community Arts Festival.

Of course, we showed our support by watching the other bands play...

And played some of our best pieces of the season...

We, being Kylie, Sofia, Shane and I, spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around taking in whatever we could find, and enjoying the sun. Thank goodness for gorgeous sunny days. :)

Life :: Backyard Birds

Well. These last few weeks have been of a whirlwind sort - and I haven't even started classes yet.
Although, I'm planning to be 'ahead of the game', and am already working on terminology flashcards. I need more of a social life, and less of a 'working, I'm so freaking exhausted' life.

Sunday, I opted to take the day off and not do anything.
Thus, it included socializing, and supervising my mother while she decided to plant the plants in her garden boxes. And, if I wasn't sitting out there socializing - I would never have almost had my head taken off by a bluebird. I was so shocked to see the bluebird the first couple times it flitted about, that it took me a while to think of getting my camera...

I then proceeded to spend the rest of my afternoon, explaining to my father the plight of the Mountain Bluebird, and why we should thus have a bluebird box out back. And then why we only can have one, and not multiple. Parents.

He wasn't really that had to convice... but I got the "If you want it, you build it. You know how to" talk. *sigh*
Now... I just have to wait for my neighbour to finish his fence so I can hang a box... and find some scrap wood around...