September 5th

7pm: Yesterday's rain continued overnight & as the temperature dropped, the snow settled on the mountains opposite us in the valley. Pretty? - undoubtedly. Welcome in the first week of September? - no!

August 20th

4pm: A long, long drive back through Oregon & Washington states to Spokane - our halfway point on the way back home. It was the best part of 12 hours, but of course as it was through for me, mostly virgin territory - pretty fascinating. Highlights were the wonderful Whole Foods store we got our lunch supplies from in Portland!! & then the drive over the high mountain passes of the Snoqualmie National Park in Washington. Very scenic & a beautiful stop-off to observe the snowy peak of Mount Rainier (above). Again backwoods America, we stopped at some very iffy service stations for the never ending kids toilet breaks. The drive then from Yakima, over the high prairie to Spokane along i90 was enjoyable as the sun set over the fields. Man was I tired though by the end of the day.....!

April 30th

11am: On my way back from the hospital in Banff, I came across this magnificent train near Banff Station. I think it's pulling the tourist train from Calgary to Vancouver - it looked beautiful against the blue skies & white caps behind. Rail travel for passengers in Southern Alberta is all but non-existent, barring this freakishly expensive luxury service. Crimial really - in a landscape made for rail travel. A busy day on the medical front with knee stuff over in Banff at the Hospital & dentist stuff in Canmore - needed a quiet night, and got one!

April 29th

8pm: The mountains looked beautiful tonight, this is the view from my lounge albeit shot on a 100mm lens. Calgary earlier was a total mess, hurricane winds & snow - but Canmore was strangely serene, almost oblivious to the chaos 100kms or so to the east.

January 22nd

4pm: A colder, foggy day in the valley today- the thick mist taking an age to dissipate in the morning before rolling in again at dusk. I captured the golden glow of the setting sun on the northern side of the valley, the evocatively named Squaws Tit peak visible on the left. This was taken around 5pm as I was on my way for a couple of laps at the Nordic Centre, the wind chill around -15C.....

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.