The neighbourhood has been quiet this week, so I still haven't turned on the air conditioner.  The days have been hot but the nights are cool.  We had a furious wind and thunder storm on Friday night.  I had biked with a new group of woman in the morning; it was perfect because it was cloudy and the ride wasn't really long.  Even though I wasn't too tired when I got home, I was happy that the rain came.  It saved me from having to water or do any other gardening.  Today I went on a wonderful long hike and again returned just before the rain and thunder came.  We had a bit of rain earlier, and I can hear the thunder rumbling in again now.  Good, I can go and read.  I have almost finished the new translation of Anna Karenina.  I'm enjoying it very much.  I've gone back to studying a bit of Spanish, in a very lazy way.  I have some great cds that I listen to as I kick back in the easy chair with a cool pack on my shoulder after hiking, biking or working in the garden.  It's so easy compared to Korean that it seems almost as if I'm fluent, which I'm not.  It's wonderful what relativity can do.

Some of the Thursday bike group at Kekuli Bay on Lake Kalamalka

The Monashee Mountains from the lunch spot on the Sunday hike up Yeoward Mountain

Some of the many anemones in the meadows on the Yeoward hike

The same anemones, but more mature ones in a more open meadow.  A funny woman on the hike told me that they call these old ones hippies on sticks.