April 23rd

8.30am : I could have kicked myself this morning, it was an incredible scene in Canmore with fresh overnight snow & stormy clouds hanging in the valley -- I took some great pictures but i had inadvertently screwed up the settings on my camera. They came out the size of postage stamps :(  Oh well, at least I got a nice shot of the Elk's grazing on Three Sister's Drive. By the time I got home at around 6pm the snow was gone..........

February 8th

5pm: On my way to indoor soccer I popped down to our summer pitch to check it out - as I suspected an unhealthy mixture of ice & elk poo covered the dead grass!! Only about 3 months to go before it's warm enough to train & play outdoors....the ice will (hopefully) be gone but we'll still be dodging the piles of elk droppings they kindly deposit around the turf for us!!

January 19th

 

4.15pm: With Mount Lady MacDonald towering in the background, Canmore's resident Elk herd take a breather from a hard day's munching grass & avoiding getting eaten &/or run over. The Bow River twists it's way slowly through the scene, the brown grass a testimony to the warmth & the general lack of snow in these parts recently.