Calgary

We left Calgary for the sunny Caribbean back in the summer of 2002, so our last “White Christmas” was 19 years ago 😲  This year, courtesy of the COVID pandemic, we are back “home” Read more →

Returning to the familiarity of “home” in early June we have found the days, weeks and months slipping by uneventfully.  Our first 14 days in Calgary were spent in mandatory quarantine, Read more →

Late September as the fall colors began to paint the mountains in shades of red, orange and yellow we headed back to the Rockies for a couple of day hikes.  The first was in Kananaskis Country, Read more →

Approximately 110 km northeast of Calgary is a region known as the Canadian Badlands, named by early French explorers who termed the deep, winding gullies as “bad lands to cross”.  Spanning east from the town of Drumheller to the Saskatchewan border Read more →

Day 3 of our mountain getaway was spent in the area around Lake Louise, a glacier-fed lake just outside the hamlet of Lake Louise.  The turquoise color of the water Read more →

Day 2 of our mountain getaway we drove to Moraine Lake, a glacier-fed lake situated in the Valley of the Ten Peaks, not far from the village of Lake Louise.  The azure blue colour of the lake Read more →

We are fortunate to have friends who own a stunning home in the town of Canmore, just outside Banff National Park.  We arranged a mid-week stay at their mountain retreat and had the most amazing few days.  Summer arrived with a vengeance Read more →