October 20 update

October 20 update

 

Tonight we attended Taste Of Our Valley at Victory Hall in Keremeos with our new neighbours Terry and Marlene. Taste Of Our Valley is the annual fall harvest celebration in our region. All around the perimeter of Victory Hall were tables set up for the local wineries, restaurants, and fruit stands / orchards. In the centre of the hall were tables and chairs. We spent the evening wandering around, visiting each merchant's table, "grazing" on samples of the local restaurants' specialties, sipping wines and hot apple ciders, munching on many varieties of locally grown apples, and eating baking, while chatting with Terry and Marlene. There was a silent auction table set up with goods and services provided by local merchants. There was an astounding fall display of produce and flowers set up at the back of the hall. Fall displays of local produce and flowers are a bit of a specialty of all the fruit stands around Keremeos.

This was the last local event of the fall season. Time for us "Snowbirds" to head south soon. Joanne and I will be leaving here November 1. I'll probably resume a ( "more or less" ) daily journal once we start travelling.

DSK