Fall Walks

The mornings are getting frosty but you can still see water (in its liquid form) in puddles beside the road. This photo was taken from the deck of a listing we have in Springbank. $2,249,000. What a place, check out B's Blog link for details.


High winds around our town lately. This old tree in the Weasel Head was snapped off. The wind has come barreling down the fairway pushing our breath back down our throats. The leaves has hung onto the trees for the most part but the horizontal winds will strip them naked by this time next week. I don't think we have ever had a Thanksgiving with leaves on the trees in Calgary.


Intrepid hikers...Bryan and Erin.

Always travel with your coffee...that is the Glenmore reservoir in the background.


Refreshing, I guess, But Ginger would do this in the depths of winter too.

Tempting to go in for a silty swim.

The creek itself is low but the colours of fall are lingering. I havent seen the colours in the east but there is a softness to the muted greens and yellows here in the west.


This swamp might look familiar to anyone who has wandered through Fish Creek Park at Voitier Flats.

Evening on the Bow. Soon enough the chill winds are bringing snow. We can smell it in the air, but for now, the fishers on the water and the ducks and geese are lingering on the edge. Often, we can get lucky and see a deer on the island.

Goodness Gracious Great Bowls of Fire!

We are going to Ashley's big show is today. Art Walk Day. A group of artists will be showing their work at Arts Central.
The following is Ashley's invitation:

Hello everyone

You are invited to attend the opening night and artist reception for the show "Goodness, gracious, great bowls of fire!".If you find that you can not attend the opening night, don't fret...feel free to come down and check it out Thursday - Saturday 11-5 pm weekly until Sept 26th.Don't forget that Art Walk is on September 19th this year, and we will be a part of it.If for some horrible reason you can't make it at all, please feel free to extend this invitation to all of your friends, family, and even your enemies.Thank you, and hope to see you there!

Calgary Clay Arts 100 - 7 Avenue SW

I will be posting photos after so stay tuned.

There and back in 36 hours

We left in a gas guzzling pig of a cargo van at 8:00 am and drove without stopping except for the emergency of gas and food etc and arrived in Burnaby at 7:00 Pacific time and went straight to the house and loaded the van. Then over to Barry's and loaded more stuff; a minute to say hello and goodbye and then up to the building to load more stuff from Mum and Dad's van and a quick hello and goodbye. Then on the road back again. Crazy? Yes!!! We stopped in Chilliwack around 10:30 pm and took a motel room.

I couldn't sleep, after sitting upright in a noisy rattling van for 16 hours my body was still buzzing and I couldn't get myself off the road so to speak.

Anyway, up at dawn and a motel continental breakfast and on the road again.
We arrived in Calgary in just enough time to irritate Erin and her turkey dinner and deliver the suite and then to home and unpack the van while Bryan made appointments that had been boiling up all day.

I went home to no turkey dinner :o(( and lots of work to unload the van. No turkey dinner because Bryan said we didn't have the time.

There is absolutely nothing worse than getting really close to a turkey dinner, where you can smell it, see it, and almost taste it and then No, you can't have it. ARGH!!!

My legs are still rattling and everything is unpacked.

Only two shoes along the way. Both were brown canvass hightops and were 500 miles apart. This is noon, Wednesday in Salmon Arm ...just as gloomy as it looks. But the truck driving the tree just cracked me up. This scene leaves room for all kinds of speculation about the circumstances.

On the Road Again

I am off early Tuesday for another trip out to the coast. This time it will be short, just a quick turn around to pick up stuff from Barry's garage. Then a short visit with the parents and I am off again. Driving a cargo van this time. This will be a lot of driving. More than I am used to and as I get older it will be more than I can do. I will take a lot of breaks and stops.
I will be counting shoes again. Last time out there, only 3 weeks ago, we saw 3 single shoes along the road. It will be an interesting study to see if there are more or less shoes than in the spring time.