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I could feel it happening as soon as I stepped out of the truck.
Yep, windy.
There were a lot of complaints coming from the ice.
Those dogs were crazy.
OK, that pheasant just had to be showing off.
Who made these tiny tracks in the snow? I was at a low-water road crossing on Mosquito Creek west of Nanton taking pictures of the flowing water...
T’was the night before Christmas. Or, I guess I should say, the morning of the night before Christmas. Right around 8:30 on the morning of the...
Ravens know exactly what they’re doing. Like their magpie and crow cousins, pretty much everything they do seems to have a purpose. Whether it’s...
Nope, didn’t fall through this time. Well over a year ago, the last time I set foot on this frozen beaver pond, I broke through the ice not just...
The County of Wheatland looked pretty much like the County of Newell. But for two small green signs about 10 metres apart, I never would have known...
Ya know, I think this might be the prettiest picture of a feedlot I’ve ever taken. There was a gorgeous prismatic cloud sitting almost directly...
Well, okay, I guess it’s winter now. At least judging by the sudden snow and the seven-vehicle pileup on the hill in front of my shack. Monday...
I love to hear the tinkle of flowing water. Except, ya know, when I’ve foolishly sipped Diet Coke within an hour of bedtime. But other than that, I...
For those of you reading this that aren’t from southern Alberta, please know the weather isn’t always like this. In fact, as I’m typing this on...
There was more snow than I expected up in the Raven River country. I’d seen in the forecast that flurries were going to happen but from the looks...
It was going to be the first big snowfall and I didn’t want to miss it. So I headed west and dove straight in. Kind of strange how the mind works...
OK, it sure looked like a dust cloud. I’d seen a few tractors out in the fields as I rolled along and they were trailing dust as they went so...
There was a helicopter coming by. I could hear the whomp-whomp of its blades as it approached, no doubt on its way to do some heavy lifting...
Two hunch-shouldered herons stood in the shallow waters of Weed Lake. The light was dim and still pre-dawn blue but I stopped for a few seconds to...
The sky was on fire. Looked like it, anyway. The sun was rising behind me and blasting the chinook clouds to the west with a spray of orange, red...
So here’s what happened. Early in the evening I got an email alert that there was going to be an outbreak of northern lights and they would likely...
There were just a few stray raindrops. A small storm had just passed and the sun was about to pop through but rain was still tapping on the poplar...
My passport had expired. Apparently, it had run out back in May but I hadn’t noticed, not having had any need to since I last crossed the border...
From the look of the clouds, it was going to get windy. Heading west into the foothills I could see the ragged edge of a chinook-type arch overhead...