The rule of red
Remnant of the old days
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
Pine Grosbeaks adding colour to our winter
So pretty against the snow
A fine old barn
A splash of much-needed red
Little red barn on the prairie
Christmas remnants
A new find on a bitterly cold day
Fenced in
Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis
Modern charm
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
Home of the Snowshoe Hare
The best colour to see in winter
Time for an old barn again
When the clouds roll in
Male beauty
Barn-shaped mailbox
A fine old barn
Poppy art
Just a splash of colour
The Famous Five from a distance
Farmyard scene on the prairie
Tropical - cultivar of Tillandsia ionantha?
Little red barn with green roof
Balsam Poplar male catkins
Balsam Poplar male catkins
Balsam Poplar catkins
Gaillardia on red
And then there were only THREE!
Bright and cheery in its old age
Old cabin on Gottlob Schmidt's (Schmitty's) land
Rural decay
Little red cabin
Strawberries and cream fungus / Hydnellum peckii
Strawberries and Cream fungus / Hydnellum peckii
Autumn berries
Hiding between the rocks
Ice crystals on a mountain top
An endless feast for a Ladybug
Red beauty on a scree slope
Fall colour
A welcome splash of red
TV's "Heartland" series location
Red's the best in winter
A splash of colour on a snowy day
Snow turns something ordinary into beautiful
Mailbox or birdhouse?
Modern - but I like it
The peace of a prairie farm - my main photo today
The old-fashioned way
The Sickener / Russula emetica?
Strawberries and cream fungus / Hydnellum peckii
Bananaquit / Coereba flaveola, Tobago
Ixora, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Splash of colour
Torch Ginger / Etlingera eliator, Trinidad
Torch Ginger / Etlingera elatior, Asa Wright Natur…
Hot Lips / Psychotria poeppigiana, Asa Wright Natu…
They were gone, but now 'they' are back
Splash of colour, Trinidad
Old-aged matching colours
New roof and a fresh coat of paint
A clash of colour
A beautiful old Ford
Colour for a snowy morning
Christmas colours in July
White-winged Crossbill / Loxia leucoptera
A favourite old barn
White-winged Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill / Loxia leucoptera
Moving into fall
Cone paradise
Mountain Ash berries
CL Ranches, Alberta
Jamaican Poinsettia / Euphorbia punicea
All decked out
Coffee Bean tree / Coffea
Indian Clock Vine / Thunbergia mysorensis
One of these things is not like the others
A splash of red
One of my favourite barns
European Mountain Ash / Sorbus aucuparia
A change of subject
It's beginning to look a lot like autumn
Strawberry Blite / Chenopodium capitatum
Red Baneberry / Actaea rubra, red berries
Too hard to resist
Unusual purple Striped coralroot / Corallorhiza st…
Canoes at Cameron Lake, Waterton
Utah Honeysuckle / Lonicera utahensis
Diabolo Ninebark
Summer colour
Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park
Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park
Clouds and Dandelions
Spiny Rose Gall
A touch of England
The Famous Five
A splash of red
One of my favourite barns
Little red barn on Mother's Day
A welcome splash of red
Red wagon by Bow Valley Ranch
Balsam or Hybrid Poplar catkins
Red barn in a beautiful setting
Simple but bright
Red barn in a field of gold
There once was an owl
A red prairie barn
The Famous Five again
No two are the same
A barn to be proud of
Guarding his barn
Red barn on a sunny day
A fine rural relic
A prairie view
Old barn on the prairie
Made to feel welcome
View from a barn doorway
Red
Weathered
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Christmas drive with my daughter, 21 December 2015
Christmas drive with my daughter, 21 December 2015
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With a view of the mountains and the prairies
Six days ago, on 21 December 2015, my daughter and I had our Christmas get-together. Like last year, she asked if I wanted to spend the day out of the city, looking for Snowy Owls (and other things). We were both so happy to at least see a (very distant) Snowy Owl, which she cleverly spotted, even though we had hoped to find a much closer one. Thank goodness, last year, my daughter and I did see and photograph beautiful Snowies E and NE of the city that were nice and close.
Finding one of these magnificent birds of prey was not the only purpose in our minds, though. It was our Christmas get-together, and we had a great day, partly in beautiful sunshine, partly in cloud, and in one of my favourite areas to explore. We had first planned to go E and NE of the city, but my daughter, waiting for her surgery on 11 January 2016, didn't feel up to travelling that far. Once she has recovered from her surgery, maybe we can go NE of the city and try for owls again.
So, plans changed and instead, we went to the Saskatoon Farm for breakfast. This interesting place is maybe a 20-minute drive SE from the southern edge of Calgary. You can collect your own Saskatoon berries in season, look around their outside green houses, and their inside gift shop full of unusual things, and buy special baking, jams, teas and so on. They also have a restaurant that offers delicious food.
www.saskatoonfarm.com/
Afterwards, we then went a bit further, to drive some of the roads east of High River, hoping to possibly find a Snowy Owl. We went as far as Mossleigh, where we stopped to take a few quick photos of the three grain elevators and then found a group of an old homestead and several barns that I don't remember seeing before. They were off the main road, but fortunately the narrow gravel road had enough snow packed on it that the short drive was very smooth. I always enjoy seeing the little red barn in this photo - Gothic Arch style? I love the way the pretty much flat, endless landscape of the prairies is dotted here and there with an old barn or an abandoned farmhouse. Makes one want to photograph them all before they eventually rot and tumble to the ground. From there, we also stopped at the little wooden church at Dinton.
Later in the afternoon, we couldn't resist the temptation to call in at Glamorgan Bakery on the way home and buy a few Christmas goodies, followed by a desperately needed food shopping trip. I just hadn't had a chance to go grocery shopping and had run out of even basic things. This was a huge relief, especially as I knew that I would be having a very long day on 23rd December, taking part in the Drumheller area Christmas Bird Count.
Thanks so much for a great day out, Rachel. The best kind of day, as far as I am concerned : ) Many thanks, too, for the beautiful, very carefully chosen (as always!) Christmas gifts. Love the owl that looks rather like a furry, stuffed children's toy, that is in fact a wonderful heat pad (that you warm in the microwave), full of lavender. I know it will feel so good on my neck and shoulders that are painful from whiplash, thanks to the woman driver who suddenly came out of a parking lot exit and cut across my lane of moving traffic about three weeks ago! Nothing I could do, as I couldn't stop in time to avoid impact. So, I'm looking forward to having an owl on my shoulder : )
Finding one of these magnificent birds of prey was not the only purpose in our minds, though. It was our Christmas get-together, and we had a great day, partly in beautiful sunshine, partly in cloud, and in one of my favourite areas to explore. We had first planned to go E and NE of the city, but my daughter, waiting for her surgery on 11 January 2016, didn't feel up to travelling that far. Once she has recovered from her surgery, maybe we can go NE of the city and try for owls again.
So, plans changed and instead, we went to the Saskatoon Farm for breakfast. This interesting place is maybe a 20-minute drive SE from the southern edge of Calgary. You can collect your own Saskatoon berries in season, look around their outside green houses, and their inside gift shop full of unusual things, and buy special baking, jams, teas and so on. They also have a restaurant that offers delicious food.
www.saskatoonfarm.com/
Afterwards, we then went a bit further, to drive some of the roads east of High River, hoping to possibly find a Snowy Owl. We went as far as Mossleigh, where we stopped to take a few quick photos of the three grain elevators and then found a group of an old homestead and several barns that I don't remember seeing before. They were off the main road, but fortunately the narrow gravel road had enough snow packed on it that the short drive was very smooth. I always enjoy seeing the little red barn in this photo - Gothic Arch style? I love the way the pretty much flat, endless landscape of the prairies is dotted here and there with an old barn or an abandoned farmhouse. Makes one want to photograph them all before they eventually rot and tumble to the ground. From there, we also stopped at the little wooden church at Dinton.
Later in the afternoon, we couldn't resist the temptation to call in at Glamorgan Bakery on the way home and buy a few Christmas goodies, followed by a desperately needed food shopping trip. I just hadn't had a chance to go grocery shopping and had run out of even basic things. This was a huge relief, especially as I knew that I would be having a very long day on 23rd December, taking part in the Drumheller area Christmas Bird Count.
Thanks so much for a great day out, Rachel. The best kind of day, as far as I am concerned : ) Many thanks, too, for the beautiful, very carefully chosen (as always!) Christmas gifts. Love the owl that looks rather like a furry, stuffed children's toy, that is in fact a wonderful heat pad (that you warm in the microwave), full of lavender. I know it will feel so good on my neck and shoulders that are painful from whiplash, thanks to the woman driver who suddenly came out of a parking lot exit and cut across my lane of moving traffic about three weeks ago! Nothing I could do, as I couldn't stop in time to avoid impact. So, I'm looking forward to having an owl on my shoulder : )
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