Cloudy Weather

I'm posting this photo today mostly because it shows clearly the kind of weather we've been having for the last week or so. A second reason is that it nicely shows the mountains on the Olympic Peninsula across the water. Usually lately they have been invisible behind banks of low cloud. Lots of snow up there. The seaplane coming in for a landing is West Coast Air, one of several airlines offering flights from Vancouver to Victoria Harbour.

Rock

This is one of a half dozen minute islands in Victoria Harbour. And this one is like the others in that it is basically just an enormous rock sticking up out of the water with a light dusting of soil here and there in its cracks, dips and depressions. Despite its Eden-like lushness at certain times of year, Victoria is not generally very fertile in the agricultural sense because it is built on rock and often the soil overlaying the rock is very shallow. The underlying bedrock not only shows up in the islands in the harbour but here and there all around the city. It's a rocky place.