Welcome to Colleen’s Corner. This is a column meant for fun and some information About myself: I am a Freelance Photographer you often see me on the side of the road or in various places taking photos of different things animals, birds, places, people etc. l have lived in Lumby for over 8 years, you have seen my photos in the newspaper (Lumby Valley Times) and once in awhile in the Vernon Morning Star, and the Lumby Art Gallery. Photography is my passion. Disclaimer: The information on some of my photos that I write about a lot of times come from the Internet or books I research them, hopefully the facts are as close to the truth as I can come.
By Colleen Fielding
What the heck, Mother Nature? A Couple of weeks ago I wrote about the snow on my car and said the sun was shining and was going to melt the snow off my car quickly which it did. This morning I woke up not only is my car covered in snow but so is my backyard! Are you confusing us with the eastern provinces? It’s mid-March for goodness sake. We should be slowing down on the snowfall, not building it up. And what about Okanagan Okie the little Marmot that said on February 2, 2026 in Vernon at the Allan Brooks Nature Centre, “he didn’t see his shadow”, said Victor Cumming, the mayor of Vernon. We were supposed to be saying good-bye to winter and hello Spring….
I guess this little guy is as confused as Mother Nature is right now.
It doesn’t look like spring at my place, in fact I heard the snow plows going by a couple of times, and between 4:00 and 4:35 am I swear I heard the low rumbling of snow thunder. Yes, I said snow thunder, it is a real thing. I heard it and saw it a couple of times when I was a kid. It’s actually called “thunder-snow”. It’s quite similar to a rain thunderstorm except it happens with snow instead of rain, it’s pretty rare, but I swear I really heard it in the early hours this morning.
I am sure Mother Nature has her reasoning for why we are having so much snow now, maybe she feels guilty that she didn’t give us the snow early in December, January, or February which of course we need to help us not have huge fires across BC again this year. Hopefully it will be enough to prevent the large fires and drought.
The roads look a little slippery out there right now, so if you have to go anywhere today drive carefully, and remember the road signs might say “80 Kmh,” but you don’t have to drive that fast when the roads are bad, slow down and drive safely!
