You can feel the East Kootenay come to life in April.

Mornings are packed full of thick pollen as life stretches out for the more available sunshine and warmth.

The white rim of our high country recedes and streams start to fill up, while wildlife changes gears and locations and bugs and birds start finding homes.

We look longingly at our gardens but hold off on the urge to start planting, despite some days in the high 20s.

For Carrie and I, it was another month of helping her Pa tidy up his Gold Creek Road home; country living is the bee’s knees.

April is the month when we re-discover reasons why we live in the Rockies and Purcells – each of us revelling in a key scent – sight, sound, smell, taste and touch, as we are able to venture further out and up into our the vast expanse of Crown lands that surround our communities; what a treasure to have at our disposal.

This month’s package of images is quite slender even though April was mostly a lovely month. Too lovely as early worries of a potentially bad fire season sprung forth. Here’s hoping; please be careful with fire folks. The grim scenes of Fort McMurray must be burned in our minds as that disaster could happen to us from one campfire left burning or one cigarette carelessly discarded.

This month’s images were taken in and around: Canal Flats/Columbia Lake; Cranbrook; Invermere; Kimberley; TaTa Creek and Wasa.

There is also a shot of now-retired East Kootenay Foundation for Health executive director Donna Grainger receiving a retirement gift (a bike) from the EKFH board. We were honoured to be at your retirement send off. Good luck in retirement Donna and thanks for all your work!

Lead image: Death and life; a deer skeleton is surrounded by tiny spring flowers off a backroad near Wasa.

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Photos by Ian Cobb/e-KNOW

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