NK'Mip Snow Bird Aqua-sizes Session

The winter season for NK'Mip Snow Bird Aqua-sizes has come to a close. In the beginning we were not sure who would lead the three-times a week sessions. Sheryl was one of the first to volunteer. Since this was my third winter of participating I also volunteered to be a co-leader. Irene had the instructions from last year, so we were ready to go.

Sheryl and Lorraine 

The participants were enthusiastic so our job was easy. We developed a choir to give a few of our moves fun and easy. We started with yoga poses; a ten minute warm-up exercises for the arms and legs; 20 minutes of cardio; 20 minutes of core strengthening and different moves with the noodle; followed by weight exercises before going into a cool down.

A good hour of fun, laughter and work out satisfaction. To all those attended during the Snow Bird Season hope you will be back next year.

Thanks to Randal Martin who produced this video  Aquasizes NK'Mip RV https://youtu.be/fOm9TGNtfDw

Trees

  Randal has been trying out his new camera with the double exposure setting.    

            This one is of Osoyoos Lake BC, with the town in the background.

If trees could talk!!!

Osoyoos BC 

It brought to mind the poem written by Joyce Kilmer 

 I am attracted to trees and love to give them a hug. 

Hugging a tree gives me comfort and erases all stress.

Winnipeg Manitoba 

Abraham Lincoln's home Springville, Illinois 

I am watching them closely to see them bud out now that spring is here 

The Making of a Movie

The fall of 2016 NK'Mip RV Resort and Campground was the site of the editing office and storage place for the props during the filming of The Humanity Bureau starring Nicolas Cage. 

On my morning walks I passed this area and took a few pictures.

From Osoyoos Today  

The Osoyoos community will get some worldwide big-screen exposure this year after a movie starring Nicolas Cage filmed in the community last fall was picked up by distributors around the globe.

The Humanity Bureau has sold to distribution companies in Europe, Latin America, South Korea, Japan and the Middle east, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The movie describes a post-apocalyptic world in a permanent state of economic recession. Through an agency called the Humanity Bureau, the federal government exiles members of society deemed unproductive.

Mr. Cage plays a bureau casework who determines to save the lives of a mother and child banished through the agency.

The film is said to be part of a six-pack of science fiction, horror and action films produced in a partnership involving Regina’s Mind’s Eye Entertainment and U.S.-based Bridgegate Pictures that will bring even more actors and film crews to the community.

Osoyoos is expected to host numerous other actors and film crews over the next few months as no less than nine productions take advantage of the South Okanagan’s scenic beauty, climate and low costs.

Most recently, Casey Affleck was in the community to film Light of My Life, a survival drama about a father (Affleck) and his daughter trapped and hunted in the woods in a post-pandemic world.

“Mind’s Eye has five other productions coming to the area next year,” said a source close to the productions. “And then there’s another production company coming up and they’re doing four.

“We’ve got the setting for desert seas, Iraq and we’ve got vineyards and we’re looking pretty good here as a scenic venture for movie companies.”