February Then and Now

                                             "What's zat?" "What's zat?" Point. "Doggy."
  NOW:  February 15, 2015 down at Tyee Spit. Sun. Dogs taking their people out for a walk.
                Sun and warmth. In Campbell River, B.C. In February.  Bare heads.
        THEN: In 2014, Feb 21st looked something like this: Smokey, dusted with snow,  sitting on the porch surrounded by snow and ice. Mostly ice.

                                     THEN: Feb 1988, at 412 Murray Street. In Pembroke, Ontario......

                                   "The morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the great silence."
                                                               (T.C. McLuhan)

      NOW: February, 2015. The beach. Smelling of salt and kelp.
THEN: Feb 18th, 1992.  17 Hillside Drive, CFB Cornwallis, Nova Scotia.   Buried in snow. Again.
                                         And Again. Till we could dig out no longer.

 NOW: Maybe this is better: Balancing on beach logs in February.........
                                                                              these boots were made for walking.

 THEN: St Albert, Alberta. 1996. A mountain of snow on which to slide. So much snow, had to wait for the city to come, and cut away the packed snow into dump trucks, to be taken outside the city.         
 THEN: 2014 See the cat in the snow.
                                             See the Woodpecker. Finding the last apple . Feb, 2009.
                                       Red and crisp. Red as the woodpecker's cap.

                            NOW: February  15 2015. The shore  in the Passage. Seals just below the surface.

                            THEN:  White Rock, B.C. 2003. Cul de Sac  blanketed with snow.

THEN: A year ago. Snow upon snow. Breaking branches. Slopping over walls.

     THEN:  Snow and little snow men, sitting in a row 2008.  Complete with hats.
                                                            Carrots for noses.
                                
  NOW: Feb 15, 2015. Big sky. Stretching warm and wild in Campbell River.
                                      On a day that it reached 14 Celsius ( 57.2 F).
                           "The sky is the daily bread of the eyes." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)