Low sky Snug Cove.

What to be proud of

Was thinking this morning of the debate on Bowen around the National Park. I often overhear disgruntled conversations where people say weird things about why the park is a bad idea. Today on the ferry it was "you know once you involve the Feds it is forever. What if BC joins Alaska?" What?

I have also heard people invoke my friend David Smith's defense of the old general store as the kind of activism that opposing the park seeks to become. But I was thinking that at the end of the day we have that gorgeous building to look at and say "we did that."

If we vote this park process away we won't have anything to point at. And if, God forbid, something profoundly negative happens to the Crown Lands will we look back on a no vote with pride?


"At one time we could have had a national park here on Bowen, but we put a stop to that!" Not a sentiment to be proud of in my books.

The full sun after a harvest moon.

Ad the haze building in as our weather thinks about changing.

View from the top of Mount Gardner looking down to our house and across to Vancouver

Bowfest sunset. Summer ends before it begins.

I have actually enjoyed this summer despite many people bitching about how cool and cloudy it has been. Today though was a classic west coast summer day and perfect weather for Bowfest. Great social times and great bands with Wasabi Fox, Taken, Shari Ulrich, Adam Woodall and the amazing 3d rocking us into the night.

No Straight Roads

No Straight Roads from aaron may on Vimeo.

A short film made by and featuring many friends of mine, and filmed on Bowen Island. The film says something about Bowen too, especially the Bowen of the early spring time, all grey mist and green and horizontal sunshine coming through the clouds and striking us at reflective angles.

The historians are having a social. I want Lois Myers-Carter in the wheelbarrow race.