Martha went for a drive with me on Saturday--when we drove up to the area of Eneas Lake Provincial Park, which lies west of Okanagan Lake, between Peachland and Summerland. It is possibly the least visited Provincial Park in British Columbia. The road to the park has been very rough but parts of it have been improved for access by heavy logging trucks. When logging is in progress, it is dangerous to travel during the weekdays, unless one has access to the radio frequency used by the loggers.

Our first stop was a swampy pond where a fresh pile of bear scat lay on the access trail.It was composed of fibrous material, evidence of the bear's early season grazing on green vegetation.

We then continued on to the vicinity of Eneas Lakes Park, where we stopped to enjoy the wild flowers in a mountain meadow. The flowers that are now blooming are illustrated in the following pictures.

Ballhead Waterleaf

Sulphur Buckwheat

Larkspur

Early Blue Violet (front view)

Early Blue Violet (Side View)--Showing Spurs

Round-leaved Violet

Western Groundsel

Western Groundsel






There were actually three kinds of violets blooming there, blue, white and yellow but my photo of the white ones did not turn out. Notice the large pink spurs on the blue violets. Larkspurs  also are remarkable for their large spurs.

Martha took the last photo on our return home, a Western Swallowtail Butterfly on a lilac bush--just outside the entrance to Westwood.