Sun Sinking Down The Dore River Valley

     I have blogged before about how I am constantly looking at the natural world for indications of the changing of the seasons.   A couple of days ago I observed another of those markers I look for.  It was the position of the sun as it dips behind the Cariboo Mountains.

    During the winter, the sun is always low on the horizon, and sets far to the left of what you can see in the photo above.   Slowly as the year unwinds, the sun sets further and further to the right of the photo, and by summer, it no longer sets behind the mountains, but at the far end of the Robson Valley.  From our house, one of the things I look for, is when the sun begins to set west of the Dore River Valley, and the other day, when I took this photo, the sun was setting in the cleft of the Dore River Valley. 

    For me, once it begins moving west of the Dore, it is a positive indication that our slow march to spring has begun and the Universe is unfolding the way it should.

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