Rays?

The weather forecast doesn't hold out much hope for the Bella Coola Valley for the long weekend and the 27th annual Bella Coola Rodeo, but at least dust won't be a problem for the competitors.   If we are lucky we will get a few sunny periods that will round out the weekend and then we can always hope for better in July and August.

Its flowering time for the fireweed, which seems to have done okay even though we didn't have the heat or sun, but there are not really extensive stands of it in the Valley, with much less forestry activity and most cut blocks well along their way to a healthy second crop of trees.  The fireweed is mostly in road side disturbed areas in the valley.  Grizzly