Autumn Stripes
Final resting place
Fragile and leaning
In fairly good condition
Hello, winter
Old barns in late afternoon sun
The red barn
In winter time
Old house on the prairie
Morning sun over Pine Coulee Reservoir
Distant ice patterns on the reservoir
Start of the storm
Alberta foothills in the fall
Granary Road
The new "Famous Five" at Granary Road
Old, see-through barn
The beauty of erosion
Down on the farm
New "barn", Granary Road
A peaceful winter scene
Autumn in Alberta
Walking in a winter wonderland
Behind the tangled branches
A patch of blue
A white world
Modern barn
Part of an abandoned mining camp
Dazzling sunlight on distant peaks
The fun times are over
One of my favourite barns
Before the next snowfall
Looking across the prairie
When the land turns white
Fine old house
A sunrise sky that lasted till sunset
Under a Chinook arch
King of silos
Glorious scenery for a Christmas Bird Count!
Trudging through the snow
On a Christmas Bird Count, -23C
The Bow River at Carburn Park
Yesterday's walk in Fish Creek Park
Old and the new
Yesterday's local walk
Winter beauty
Yesterday's COLD walk
White-tailed Deer through the snow
Before winter arrived
Rainforest of the Arima Valley, Trinidad
The beauty of winter
Red barn in winter
Whites and blues of winter
Country scene in winter
A white world
Deer on the horizon
Old barns in the foothills
Winter's beauty
Plain, but welcome
A view from yesterday
Coyote crossing the frozen Elbow River
With more big storms to come
A beautiful day in Weaselhead
A scene in the Whaleback area
Storm arriving at Quarry Lake, near Canmore
Rural decay
A drive through Kananaskis
Beneath the cloud
Town of Canmore, Alberta
When the storm moved in
A view from Quarry Lake, Canmore
A new-to-me old barn
Fish Creek Park on a low-light day
A mountain meadow, Kananaskis, Alberta
Fall colours in Fish Creek Park
Cattle drive in the mountains of Kananaskis, Alber…
Heading for the mountains on a hazy morning
The charred remains of McDougall Memorial United C…
Lenticular (?) clouds over the mountains
Kananaskis before the snowstorm
Before the snow arrived
Part of an old miners' camp
Things are not always what they seem
Ah, those glorious Larches in their fall colours
The colours of fall
Pine Coulee Reservoir, Alberta
Pine Coulee Reservoir, Alberta
Waterton Lake from the townsite - before the fire
In the middle of nowhere - spot the truck
Road through Kananaskis
Our precious Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta…
Walker House, Inglewood Bird Sanctuary
Farm in the foothills
Sheep on a smoky day
Scenery along Highway 40, Kananaskis
Old country schoolhouse
A favourite road
Wide angle on the Bighorn Sheep ridge
The beauty of our mountains
Clouds over the mountains
A road less travelled
Little country school with company
Vanishing landscape
Love those hills
Bison with smoke haze
Out in the middle of nowhere
Yesterday's barn
Treasures in the yellow strip
No longer a home
Splash of colour
Cameron Falls, Waterton Lakes National Park
Alberta foothills in smoke haze
Old barn in a field of canola
Smoke from the British Columbia wildfires reaches…
A view from Red Rock Canyon, Waterton
Cameron Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park
Old demonstration farm
I LOVE Canola
A different view from Maskinonge lookout, Waterton
Upper Waterton Lake, seen from the town
Maskinonge Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park
Slough near Eagle Lake
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Elbow Falls, Kananaskis
Elbow Falls, Kananaskis
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Early morning sunrise over the mountains
All three photos posted this morning were taken yesterday, 27 October 2017. It was a day filled with interest and enjoyment, and the morning was so different from the afternoon. It felt a day well spent. Normally, I never post - or even take! - photos of people, but this time was different. In the afternoon, by the way, I drove east of the city to see and photograph an old barn that I had wanted to see for a number of years. A friend posted a photo of it the other day and it turned out to be the very barn that I hadn't yet found. Without being asked, he told me exactly where it was. I had been looking for it just a few days before and must have missed it by just one road.
Early morning, I set out to drive west of the city, to meet a small group of friends at a very special place. It was just starting to get light when I left home and the pink sunrise colours over the distant peaks was beautiful. Unfortunately, I couldn't stop anywhere to take a photo, until I actually arrived. At least this photo gives an idea of the setting for the place we were visiting.
We had been invited to visit and do a preliminary bio-blitz at an art centre in Springbank, belonging to two amazing, vibrant, creative people who were a joy to meet. There are so many things I could write, but will instead take the words from various articles about this lively, hardworking couple.
A friend who usually comes out with us on our May Species Counts knows Katie and Harry and had told our main Naturalist, Gus Yaki, that they were interested in learning more about what plant species were growing on their 20 acres of land. I feel very fortunate to have been invited. Of course, it was not the best time of year to do this, though our Naturalist (unlike me) knows all the plants and trees without their flowers.
I will gradually add some information about this generous pair, as I find again the various websites that I was looking at late last night. I say "generous" because Katie and Harry have donated their home, Gallery, collections, and land, while continuing to live there at present. A tremendous gift!
"Harry Kiyooka and Katie Ohe have dedicated their lives to art. Their work has helped shape the local, national and international art scenes. And now they are taking the step of not just being figurative institutions on the scene, but turning their home into a literal institution for art creation.
Ohe, still a part-time instructor at ACAD (Alberta College of Art + Design), has been teaching art since 1959 and has been with ACAD since 1970. As a teacher, she has promoted the creativity of a diverse range of students. While teaching at the Calgary Allied Arts Centre, she also worked and lived out of the Hart family’s carriage house — that’s the Hart family of wrestling fame. Ohe taught art to the “Hitman” himself, Bret Hart, the eighth child of wrestling patriarch Stu Hart.
Harry didn’t seek the limelight,” says Deborah Herringer Kiss, director of the Herringer Kiss Gallery of Contemporary Art, who has known the couple for more than 15 years. “He didn’t care about having big shows or trying to get into museums. He didn’t care about any of that. He made it work by quietly, constantly creating art.”
A couple years shy of 90, Kiyooka is still a prolific painter. Inside his and Ohe’s home, his paintings hang alongside the “greats.” Other paintings line the walls of his studio, and he still works on several huge canvases. More paintings are stored behind couches and under beds, and there’s a dedicated storage room packed with filing cabinets, filled with his paintings." From an article in AvenueCalgary, from February 17, 2016 (see link below).
www.avenuecalgary.com/City-Life/Calgary-Contemporary-Art-...
www.koartscentre.org/
www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/work+progress/8484134...
One of Katie's kinetic sculptures (Chrome Plated Steel) in motion:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp05CHJGV6I
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-art-centre-springb...
Early morning, I set out to drive west of the city, to meet a small group of friends at a very special place. It was just starting to get light when I left home and the pink sunrise colours over the distant peaks was beautiful. Unfortunately, I couldn't stop anywhere to take a photo, until I actually arrived. At least this photo gives an idea of the setting for the place we were visiting.
We had been invited to visit and do a preliminary bio-blitz at an art centre in Springbank, belonging to two amazing, vibrant, creative people who were a joy to meet. There are so many things I could write, but will instead take the words from various articles about this lively, hardworking couple.
A friend who usually comes out with us on our May Species Counts knows Katie and Harry and had told our main Naturalist, Gus Yaki, that they were interested in learning more about what plant species were growing on their 20 acres of land. I feel very fortunate to have been invited. Of course, it was not the best time of year to do this, though our Naturalist (unlike me) knows all the plants and trees without their flowers.
I will gradually add some information about this generous pair, as I find again the various websites that I was looking at late last night. I say "generous" because Katie and Harry have donated their home, Gallery, collections, and land, while continuing to live there at present. A tremendous gift!
"Harry Kiyooka and Katie Ohe have dedicated their lives to art. Their work has helped shape the local, national and international art scenes. And now they are taking the step of not just being figurative institutions on the scene, but turning their home into a literal institution for art creation.
Ohe, still a part-time instructor at ACAD (Alberta College of Art + Design), has been teaching art since 1959 and has been with ACAD since 1970. As a teacher, she has promoted the creativity of a diverse range of students. While teaching at the Calgary Allied Arts Centre, she also worked and lived out of the Hart family’s carriage house — that’s the Hart family of wrestling fame. Ohe taught art to the “Hitman” himself, Bret Hart, the eighth child of wrestling patriarch Stu Hart.
Harry didn’t seek the limelight,” says Deborah Herringer Kiss, director of the Herringer Kiss Gallery of Contemporary Art, who has known the couple for more than 15 years. “He didn’t care about having big shows or trying to get into museums. He didn’t care about any of that. He made it work by quietly, constantly creating art.”
A couple years shy of 90, Kiyooka is still a prolific painter. Inside his and Ohe’s home, his paintings hang alongside the “greats.” Other paintings line the walls of his studio, and he still works on several huge canvases. More paintings are stored behind couches and under beds, and there’s a dedicated storage room packed with filing cabinets, filled with his paintings." From an article in AvenueCalgary, from February 17, 2016 (see link below).
www.avenuecalgary.com/City-Life/Calgary-Contemporary-Art-...
www.koartscentre.org/
www.calgaryherald.com/entertainment/work+progress/8484134...
One of Katie's kinetic sculptures (Chrome Plated Steel) in motion:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp05CHJGV6I
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-art-centre-springb...
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