And here at last is the cover of our new book, Captured By Fire.
The picture is ofof co-author Fred’s house on August the 3rd, the worst day of the 2017 fires for him and his wife Monika. Even the firefighters left on that day and took all their equipment with them. Fred and Monika were begged to leave, but if they had gone, they would not have been allowed to return. The law made all of us stay on our properties long after it was dangerous because of not being allowed home again. If Fred, Monika and I had left when told to do so at the beginning of the fire, we would have been away for nearly 2 months. Firefighters might have saved our houses – but who would look after the gardens and livestock?
Fred and I will be touring with slide shows for this very exciting book. Sometimes we will be together, sometimes alone. We will catch Nimpo Lake, Tatla Lake, and Alexis Creek in mid September. We will both be together in Williams Lake, and again in the Vancouver Island shows as many of the firefighters came from there. Here is the schedule so far. More details will be added soon.
Williams Lake Arts Centre – September 30
100 Mile Library – Oct 1
Revelstoke library – Oct 3
Blind Bay – Oct 4
Salmon Arm Library – Oct 5
Peachland Library – Oct 8
Vernon museum – Oct 9
West Kelowna Library – Oct 10
Comox library – Oct 15
Nanimo North Library – Oct 17
Gabriola Library – Oct 19
Powell River Library – Oct 22
Sechelt – Oct 24 or 25
Squamish Library – Oct 28
Whistler Library Oct 29
New West Library – Oct 30
Some of the gaps will be filled in.
Fred and Monika plan to tour the Kootenays in November.
Look forward to reading this book. That was such a challenging year for so many people. Most of us have never experienced anything remotely close to what you did. Enjoy the rest of summer!
Memories of that summer still give me the chills! We watched from our small lake below the beginning of the Sapeye Ridge as White Saddle flew back and forth bucketing when the fire started up at Colwell Lake. Then we were on evacuation alert and since we go in and out by boat and have no phone it was stressful. I have a photo of loons floating on grey, the sky was the same as the water.
I still look forward to reading your book though!
You’ll want to correct the typo on the cover – livelihoods not livliehoods.
So happy to see new posts – I check every week to see if there are new photos and stories.
Really enjoy your blog!
Chris, how wonderful to find so many of your ‘blogs’ today. Your photographs and your writing is a joy. We were concerned all was not well with you, but now we realize that you have indeed been very busy. We look forward to your new book, and to attending your lecture/book selling in the Nanaimo (North) Library.
Enjoy the remainder of your summer.
I’m disappointed you aren’t coming to Port Alberni to either our library or to Char’s Landing.
Looking forward to it! Hopefully, you caught the typo on the cover – “livelihood”, not “livliehood” 🙂