Yesterday morning, I ventured out for a morning drive with no particular destination in mind. I chose some areas I don’t often frequent in search of photographs, with the expectation I would find something interesting. After traveling west on the Trans-Canada Highway, I turned southward onto the Banff-Windermere Parkway, heading toward British Columbia and Kootenay…
Summer Scenes
Today’s post includes some favourite scenes taken in the course of the summer, thus far. There is no particular theme, other than I like them. The first two were taken on a misty morning in Kananaskis Country, beginning with this picture taken at Spillway Lake before the fog had burned off. The only thing missing…
Bighorn Sheep
Yesterday, I was showing the scenery of Alberta to our visitors, Jennifer and Raymond Desjardins when we came across some bighorn sheep, patrolling Highway 40 in Kananaskis Country. Never shy, two rams were strolling down the middle of the road, oblivious to the traffic they were delaying. Exercising a little patience, we managed to get a…
Scotland Favourites II
My final selection of photographs from Scotland. I begin with this picture taken on the last day of our holiday on our return to Edinburgh. It was a cool, rainy day; fortunately one of the few we experienced while in Scotland. I was searching a good vantage point to photograph the Forth Bridge. I found a…
New Flowers for Today
We’ve had some new flowers bloom in the backyard this morning. They’re both flowers of the echinopsis cactus. There are many varieties of the this cactus, all producing similar but different coloured flowers. This first one is obviously yellow; we’ve also had white and pink flowers this spring. I like this one, the pink echinopsis flower better….