A Perfect Easter Weekend in Prince George
Sunday, March 31, 2013 @ 5:28 AM
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(Watching traffic on the Yellowhead Bridge and at Highways 97 and 16. Photos 250 NEWS)
Prince George, B.C. – It’s an Easter weekend of weather contradictions in Prince George, with beautiful sunshine and snow covering much of the ground off the travelled byways.
A drive to the golf courses, area parks, playgrounds and sports fields produces the glaring observation that there is still plenty of snow remaining to melt as we head into the month of April. Yet the warm sunshine and double-digit temperatures and sights of folks going for walks clad in short-sleeve shirts plays to that contradiction.
So, what are people doing this long weekend? Well, the shopping centre parking lots have certainly been busy, but we.jpg)
won’t bother with pictures of commerce at play because you see those every holiday weekend it seems. Stores that sell chocolate bunnies and eggs and other assorted goodies were especially busy as moms and dads, grammas and grandpas, and Easter Bunnies, loaded up baskets and headed for the tills.
won’t bother with pictures of commerce at play because you see those every holiday weekend it seems. Stores that sell chocolate bunnies and eggs and other assorted goodies were especially busy as moms and dads, grammas and grandpas, and Easter Bunnies, loaded up baskets and headed for the tills.Plenty of people took advantage of the sunny weather by going for a walk. Still a little dusty out there, but a great day for walking nonetheless. They were out on the sidewalks, down at Fort George Park, some with two-legged friends, others with companions that tread on four paws (pictured right). Some watched the world go by while others found common denominators in their dogs and struck up conversations with complete strangers.
One of those days when you look at all of the snow still to melt, wish for dust-free streets, wait with anticipation for the ball diamonds, golf courses and soccer fields to open, and lap up the sunshine and warmth.
Happy Easter. It should be another beauty.
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No worrie. Had some nice fat robins in the yard at dinner time last night!
How did they taste? Just kidding…
Cherry blossoms out here and people out for a walk on the beach and testing the water with their feet. Trees starting to turn green. People starting to sit outside at restaurant and coffee shop patios. :-)
Geese leaving the farmers’ fields and starthing to head north on their trip to Alaska and Siberia for the summer. last of the daffodils in full bloom on flower growers’ fields. Tulips out in a few more weeks.
Spent the day at one of our local mountains downhill skiing. Blue skies, warm weather and spring skiing; it’s a good life.
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