The rainfall warning in effect for a large part of southern Alberta over the past couple of days prompted me to spend some time reflecting on the consequences of last year's flood, particularly in our part-time home town of Canmore. Some of the most dramatic images from the June 2013 flood were taken at Cougar …
Continue reading Three Sisters Creek – One Year After the Flood
We've never just gone for a drive along Highway 40 in Kananaskis Country. But that changed the first Friday in June, when we ended up enjoying a leisurely drive from Canmore to the Interlakes parking lot. We stopped several times along the way, cameras in hands, with the aim of sharing some of the scenic …
Confession time...when I received an email with the subject "May 2-4 Sale" on May 15th, I figured someone messed up or the email had been lost in cyberspace for a couple of weeks, so I simply deleted it. Then when a couple more with similar subject lines hit my inbox I suspected I had become …
It's May!! If you ask me, it’s well past time for winter to migrate to the southern hemisphere for several months. But the weather forecast for the weekend shows that the winter of 2013/14 is tenacious, with snowfall warnings in effect for Canmore, Kananaskis and the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. It’s great news for skiers …
You know you're taking a lot of photographs when it takes more than 48 hours to put together a time-sensitive blog post! Processing star trails from three of the past four nights is taking quite a bit of time, so I decided I'd better take a break to share some highlights from Canmore's New Year's …