Thus here are a few photos to tell the story. No, I will not post the 100 or so I took plus my wife had as many or more!
We flew into Kelowna where my sister picked us up from the plane and drove us up to Vernon. We had lunch at Davison Orchards, a highly recommended stop for pie and coffee or a light lunch! And fruit! And preserves! Need I say more.
That evening it was off to a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater set on the Historic O'Keefe Ranch just out of Vernon. We started out a the church and the mystery developed as we returned to the dinning room. One of the characters was shot on the way back! The meal was reasonably good although I don not understand people thinking that bloody beef roast is good. And it was uncuttable (new word foo which you might say tough)beside. If it is gong to be uncuttable at least let it be cooked so you can still get some nourishment out of it! Desert was fine. :) 
Monday we visited BX Creek Daylilies in Vernon. The owner Gail Morgan quite proudly showed us around their beautiful yard and the many seedling and named variety lily beds. As you can tell from her website there is an abundance to choose from. She showed us a podded stem with little plant-lets growing in the crotches of the missing flowers. There were a few still blooming and I was able to photograph them. Very healthy plants! I wish I had better ground to grow daylilies in and water as well. I have a number of seedlings but they are struggling since we cannot water.We also visited Swan Lake Nurseryland who have a good season end supply of plants (and daylilies) along with fruit and a good garden center for supplies.
You can also stop for food here in their cafeteria style restaurant.
Then Monday night we headed up to Mara Lake to join our traveling companions on a four night houseboat cruise. Now this would not have been on my bucket list if I had one but nonetheless it was a good adventure.
Since the other folks were traveling from Calgary and would need to motel overnight, it was decided to pay for an extra night on the houseboat. It served several purposes as it turned out. We were able to get beds made(we brought our own bedding), food put away (same deal) and be ready to leave first thing in the morning. This gave us a full first day on the water. A very good plan if you are going to houseboat. We had rented from Waterways Houseboat Vacations who have a good assortment of sizes to pick from depending on the size of your group. The lakes are a network of arms all coming together at several join points. A lot to explore. A suggestion I would make is to plan ahead where you will go and where you will stop. If you have a boat or a watercraft (jetski) it could be a good way to travel about on the lakes (faster) while you picked several spots to use as bases. We did not get to explore all arms of the lake as it is many miles and the houseboat travels well at about 8 or 9 k/h. We still had a good time. Strangely we only saw birds and no animals, even on shore.
For me what was as exciting was the finding of 4 different apple trees at the foot of the path leading up to the road to the falls area. And also the variety of plants following the falls and creek down to the lake.
Oregon Grape
There were four different apple trees without tags and I thought maybe some of the other trees about were plum but there was no fruit. Then at the falls there was a mountain ash. Not sure of the species. Next was Vaccinium ?. I am not clear from what I read but it is called Huckleberry. Only a few did I find so I brought them home and mixed them in peat moss and popped them in the crisper drawer of the fridge.
Finally a self portrait of this author and the green forest background.
There may be others as I have a few taken as if I had used a fish eye lens. Very strange.
