A matter of months – Comox Lake

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I shot this picture of the Comox Glacier on a trip out to Comox Lake on a beautiful fall day – one of the last days of October and a rare day of sun that came between some major frontal systems that dumped rain on much of coastal British Columbia.

A nice picture of the Glacier and the lake – but also a picture that prompted a bit of digging back through my image archives after we took a close look at the tree stumps in the bottom middle of the image. We had been standing right beside those stumps in September, and as shown below, had poked about in Comox Lake looking for bits and pieces from the days of log booming on the lake.

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The stumps are rather large.

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And if you scroll back up, you can really get an idea of how much the level of Comox Lake can change over a relatively short period of time.

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Courtenay Hallowe’en parade

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The 2014 Courtenay Hallowe’en parade was a lot of fun, with zombies and the living parading up and down 5th Street from Cliffe to England

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Shooting the shooter – Courtenay Hallowe’en parade

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That’s shooting the shooter as in shooting a picture of the person shooting a picture…

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Hallowe’en at Union Bay

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Union Bay Hallowe’en bonfire

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Union Bay had a wonderful bonfire and an excellent fireworks show – sometimes I just like to enjoy life and leave the camera in the jeep…

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A stormy day at Point Holmes – the gulls

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Sea gulls enjoying the winds that let them surf over the shore at Point Holmes while looking for food that was washed up from the Salish Sea by the tail end of the storm system that was Hurricane Ana.

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and a bit of video…

Sea gulls are not the most cooperative creatures…

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A stormy day at Point Holmes

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The remnants of Hurricane Ana brought storm winds of up to 80 km/h and rains to much of Vancouver Island.

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Point Holmes

and a bit of video…

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Spoons – Victoria

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Spoons at Alix Goolden Performance Hall in Victoria, May 17, 2014

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Street Art – Courtenay Riverway

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Street art along the Courtenay Riverway

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I wrote more about the Riverway

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Signs of fall – Comox Lake Logging Road

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Comox Logging Road – heading toward Courtenay

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Signs of fall – maple leaves

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