Winter Quiet

by Kathy Bassett

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Winter Quiet

Artist

Kathy Bassett

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Photograph - Photography Digital Fine Art

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A bustling city of Kamloops behind, this confluence of rivers brings a variety of migratory and 'right at home' birds for fantastic bird watching and communing. I recently had an opportunity to 'hang with the swans' (Trumpeters) and had a very sweet connection with one in particular. The north may be cold, but the presence of community and sometimes strange communion tends to show up when it gets below 0 Centigrade!
At Kamloops, the combined Thompson River river flows 15 km from the confluence of the North and South Thompson Rivers before reaching Kamloops Lake, which is roughly 30 km in length, ending at the town of Savona. From there it flows in a meandering course westwards through a broad valley area. At Ashcroft, the Thompson Canyon begins and the river turns southwestward to its confluence with the Fraser. The river is paralleled by the Trans-Canada Highway, the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian National Railway.
From Ashcroft to Lytton, the river is completely confined within Thompson Canyon, making for spectacular scenery. The Thompson River joins the Fraser River in Lytton. There is a striking stretch of dark black cliffside just downstream from Ashcroft and visible from the Logan Lake-Ashcroft highway is officially-named the Black Canyon. Just below the town of Spences Bridge was the site of a major rail disaster in the early 20th Century. Communities along this section are Bighorn, Shaw Springs, and Goldpian.

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January 22nd, 2013

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