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Just maybe there will be a summer |
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| FTLComm - Tisdale - Tuesday, June 1, 2004 | |||||||||
Spectacular, no other word describes adequately the transition from morning to afternoon today. The sky was completely covered this morning with a few drops of rain but this afternoon I had to take some freight downtown and in less than a block I was reaching for sunglasses. Today is the first afternoon that even has the closest appearance to summer for the Tisdale Pool so I thought I would try to get a shot of the spectacular sky and the pool with people in it and enjoying themselves. A grade five class were in the pool getting their water safety courses. There was a light feeling as a few parents sat is the warm sunlight watching their children go through their paces. The Tisdale pool staff were hard at work with two in the water and one doing rescue work with students on the lawn. What I wanted to show you was the clouds over the RECPlex with the pool in the foreground. This seemed to me to demonstrate the kind of day it is today and without a doubt, "June is busting out all over." It struck me as I was looking back on June firsts in the past that today has been like this for many years. I guess it is one of those things about human memory we don't have the ability to see things over the longer period of time especially when it relates to the actual dates and what it was like. Six years ago today the Alfalfa Dehydration plant began its season. I left the pool and turned toward the four way stop at the junctions of #3 and #35 just in time to see a convoy of vehicles from Rose Valley pulling out of the 7-11 as they are on their way up to the Churchill River for a five day river camping and canoe trip. The lead van driver assured me that there was good weather and lots of sunshine ahead for them in the next five days. Besides the van and trucks towing the canoe trailers there were many loaded cars with parent along to make this a successful outdoor educational experience. The TMSS group got away on the weekend and are up there right now even though it was still raining off and on in the LaRonge area today. Outdoor education trips of this kind are difficult to organise and really require dedicated teachers and parents give the huge effort that is required for such a project but study after study has shown that these kinds of activities are the kind of things that last a whole life time as young people are able to grasp from experiences like these a whole set of transferable concepts that they will apply in a wide range of future undertakings. But check out the sky below. Stratusfractus with altostratus above and some cirrus above that suggesting a bit of wind and a lot of moisture in the layers. That looks like summer to me. Today is the end of the school year in Northern Lights School Division and the beginning of our summer vacation There will be periods of time from now until late August when this site will not post as we will be camping. |
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