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  • dahlias three ways

    Did you know that dahlias are the national flower of Mexico? I don’t remember seeing any dahlias in Puerto Vallarta in March, but then again I don’t think I took any flower pictures there.  It was more about eating good food, sticking my toes in the sand and taking sunset pictures. Summer is still in…

  • a beautiful summer weekend

    The weather was perfect this weekend.  It was cooler at the beginning of the week and I wore long pants to work and even uttered the word fall a few times, but thank goodness summer has returned.  These are a few pics from this weekend – a good portion of which was spent outside –…

  • Goats in Wascana Centre

    As a pilot project, goats were brought into Wascana Centre to deal with the overgrowth of vegetation in the park. What a great idea! Today was an opportunity to check out the goats and see what the project is all about. The farmer who owns the goats said the goats are raised for the meat.…

  • Queen Elizabeth II Gardens

    The Queen Elizabeth II Gardens in front of the Legislative Building in Regina re-opened on the weekend after a $1 million renovation.  I love the Leg. – I think it’s a beautiful building (although I certainly don’t love the governing party that is inhabiting it right now!).

  • walking in the woods

    walking in the woods

    “I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed.  You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always eyes watching you.  All the wildlife of the woods, the insects, birds, and animals, are well aware of your presence no matter how softly you may tread,…

  • World’s Largest Easter Egg

    What’s a road trip without a stop at a roadside attraction?  The World’s Largest Ukrainian Easter Egg is located in Vegreville, Alberta – we passed it along the way to Elk Island National Park and we thought it deserved a look.  I particularly liked the stained glass artwork.  

  • Robin’s Egg Blue – Part 2

    I posted a picture of two perfect robin’s eggs a few weeks ago taken in my parents’ backyard.  They were so perfect that I may have accused my mom of planting two plastic eggs there as a bit of a joke.  We went camping for a week and when we came back, there were three…

  • love is…

    This has been my camping coffee mug for years. It’s one of my favourite camping rituals, along with nightly hot dog and marshmallow roasts around the fire before bedtime.

  • “If You Go Out In the Woods Today”

    “If You Go Out In the Woods Today”

    I am terrified and fascinated by bears.  If I sleep in a tent at a campground where there could be bears (and it’s been a few years since I’ve slept in a tent), I don’t sleep until the sun comes up.  I hear every noise – every squirrel scurrying up a tree, every coyote howling…

  • clark’s nutcracker

    According to the Jasper guidebook I had handy on the trip, this is a Clark’s Nutcracker.  These were taken at the Endless Chain mountain road side pull-out on the Icefields Parkway between Jasper and Banff. I really wanted to see mountain goats on this trip, but they proved elusive. I settled for buying an art…

  • Elk Island National Park

      I just got back from my annual camping trip with my parents.  Our main destination this year was Jasper National Park, but on the way we camped at Elk Island National Park for a night. Elk Island is about an hour from Edmonton and is a less busy park than Banff and Jasper. After…

  • bears

    The sign that greets campers at one of the campgrounds in Jasper National Park. One road side bear sighting so far – I’ll post the pics when I get home.