November 3rd

 

12.25pm - Hmmm, a common theme in Vancouver - back to the hotel late after along day's work.



November 2nd

 

9am. Vancouver bound & on the runway at YYC yet again, how many flights this year  still more to come! Still a nice day for it.



October 29th

 

1pm,. Centre Street, Calgary. A stupendously glorious day today as the weather turns yet again. It's been a very warm, mild autumn & long may it continue. I was here for the day working, but sapped this shot from the sunroof of the car as I headed downtown.



October 20th

7.30am. A lovely sunrise over the Trans Canada highway as I head into Calgary for work. The mornings are getting much darker & somewhat chilly as Autumn makes way for Winter.

October 15th

11pm: I wish I could post something momentous about this day, but it was just work, work, work! As ever I am in the Sandman on West Georgia, where the staff know my name! It's late & I have forgotten to take a picture..

October 14th

 

8am Calgary Airport & this is my never-to-be plane heading to Vancouver. We boarded as normal but then sat there for an eternity before the captain informed us that the computer on the plane was broken. Dutifully we de-planed & waited for a replacement, I arrived in Vancouver hours later - but better to find out the computer was down while at the gate then 38,000ft over the Rockies I guess.



October 8th

1pm: The spectacular trestle railway bridge at Lethbridge, Alberta : I had to make the 3 hour drive down to Lethbridge for work today. It was another gorgeous Fall day & actually pretty hot down here in the South (25C at least). Lethbridge is a nice town,  maybe a bit windy/dusty for my liking but surrounded by lush countryside, with the pass that leads you into Southern BC a 150kms to the west. Still a good drive & with a stop off in bustling Okotoks on my way back, a long day.

October 6th

8pm: Glad to be on a plane westbound & back home after another difficult day. Here we are flying over Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota on a lovely evening.

October 5th

2pm: A work day today in Mississauga - highly stressful given the goings on recently at the company I work for. I missed a rare Charlton live TV game. Watching it later I was amazed to see a comprehensive victory over the MK Dons - here is a photo  I took from my laptop of interviewees Scott Wagstaff & Kyel Reid. I missed the company Go-Karting ( which i wasn't sorry about) but enjoyed a good meal with colleagues somewhere in downtown Toronto - in fact I ate for the first time escargots, which I now thoroughly recommend.

October 4th

3pm: So here I am again, at Calgary International Airport on my way across to Toronto for work meetings. Leaving behind a sweltering Calgary day by the looks of it.

September 23rd

8pm: On my way back from Calgary & golf again, the sun going down the cow's in their pasture somewhere between the Springbank Airport & Morley. Prime Alberta beef!

September 21st

8am: Ah yes! My prediction from yesterday was true - a pretty decent snowfall overnight, not too cold though so it probably won't hang around. The joys of scraping, defrosting & warming up the cars beckon!

September 15th

5pm: I'm on the golf course again, this time with a trio of work colleagues at the Furry Creek course near Vancouver. It was a nice day, I started out in totally hopeless mode but by the end of the round was hitting the ball quite well, it's not really my cup of tea - but once in a while, especially if it is paid for by someone else - well I can abide it. Ended up in a nice restaurant in Vancouver - Chambar is well known, well respected & the food was very good.

August 5th

9.45pm: The long & winding road, on my way home after a few days in Vancouver - this is the final stretch of the 1 hour drive back from Calgary - I will be home in 3 minutes from here. Always nice to be coming back home to my little family.

August 4th

8pm: A beautifully warm Vancouver evening, after work i went down to Granville Island for a walk. Here we have the magnificent little aquabus service that ferries people across the river right in the heart of downtown. These boats come & go frequently, I am not sure what their real purpose is - tourism or commuting - they are are cool though. Vancouver is such a magnificent city, I am normally immersed in work here & don't get time to observe & record little things like this. Shame.

July 30th

8pm: Here I am coming in the opposite direction, heading west from Toronto to Calgary. Calgary has been plagued by violent thunderstorms all summer, and tonight was no exception - we dodged the worst of it coming into land, but it was still a very bumpy ride. This is probably over Drumheller. we are aiming for the patch of light, but hitting mostly angry storm clouds!

July 29th

5pm: This is work! We were bread & wine tasting at a local college in the Niagara region. My company makes bread & bakery products, the college is the leading wine college in the region. We have partnered up in some research projects at the links between bread & wine are numerable. Here we are pairing the local wines with different types of sourdough breads, amazing stuff - some of the combinations were phenomenal. I am lucky in that my line of work interests me, being a foodie helps - we later had a really great meal at one of the local wineries in beautiful surroundings. Not every work day is so pleasurable!

July 28th

10pm: It wasn't easy getting a shot of Niagara Falls, first the darkness of the surroundings & the constant colour changes projected by the lights onto the water. Secondly the immense crowds of people there for a free firework show. It was a depressing place, ugly, rampant commercialisation of the very worst kind. You are even forced to walk through a horribly, tacky mall to get near the falls. I hated it so much. I am sure when the falls were discovered they were an amazing sight in their natural surroundings, now they are almost a secondary diversion to the casinos, Hortons, MacDonalds, Burger Kings & worse littered all around them & the tack vendors trying to sell glowsticks, beads, photographs etc etc. Horrible!

July 27th

8.30pm: Here I am somewhere over Eastern Manitoba on my way to Toronto for a few days work. Lovely evening for flying, this is an Air Canada plane - i am switching allegiance from Westjet to AC in a vain attempt to rack up some frequent flyer points!

July 26th

11pm: Amongst the illness of last week, I wasn't much good for celebrating Nicky's birthday - I made up for it today whilst in between meetings in Calgary by buying her the GPS watch she wanted for her running activities. Not convinced that she will use it properly, technical stuff is not her strong point but she is doing so well with her running, that anything that helps her to be better at it, is fine by me.