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Vacation is over. Back to work.

Back into the sky. Didn’t notice much change here. All the same, exciting and boring, spectacular and dull, friendly and dangerous, bright and dark, - it is still all the same. And hopefully, will be.. For the next eh, … 100000…. years

It is exactly a kind of pairing one wouldn’t mind to do after getting back to work from vacation: easy going, with not too much hours, - and with the Internet in the hotel rooms where you can relax, and make a post or two..

However, thundershowers quite common in this period of the year will refresh your alertness. So will the mountain peaks

On the other hand, this picture of the little cloud on top of the mount brings back memories from my childhood, and a line of poetry by Pushkin: “.. a little cloud spent a night // on the chest of Cliff the Giant…”

Mike, the captain, said the water in Harrison Lake is always cold. OK, should check it out. He was grown here, he knows much about this part of BC. Later we enjoyed a nice view of his native Vancouver

Not a very long hop over the mountains to Prince George, a ‘Spruce Capital of he World’, - gee, looks like I’m going to step on turf of the second ‘World-Capital-of-Something’ in a very short time, - the last one was the “Norseman Capital of the World” on July 21-23

Soon we are flying over the Trench, and there’s no more sharply peaked mountains around, - just softly rolling hills covered by forest. But what is this? Why some clusters of evergreens are RED?

It is a color of disaster: forest is infested with ‘pine beetle’

‘Bye, Baby’, we say to our plane, and go to the town for overnight. Oh, such a beautiful sunset here, in Prince George

But I consider it is too late for a call to my friend Shawn ‘Hey, howdy, mind a coup of tea?’

Next morning I see a plane

my bet, Shawn has flown this one more than once. I’ll ask him. And I’ll owe him a beer if he hasn’t

While we are waining for our plane due to arrive soon from Vancouver, we socialize with a puppy (didn’t know her name), she’s gonna be our ‘guest’ on the return flight to YVR. She is so cute and friendly that everybody wants to ‘CUDDLE’ with her

Shortly after we took off, and fly over the mountains again

Recently we traveled to Jasper, and did a stop at the Athabasca Glacier on the Icefields Parkway. The evidence of the Glacier’s retreat marked by the yearly poles is striking. And all it happened in a course of just a few recent decades - which is incredibly fast in terms of GEOLOGIC time. Probably, the same is happening to the glaciers in the Coastal Mountains.

Logging… Hmm.. Does it make as much input into a ‘global warming’ as they say?

And we do leave a trail after us too..