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Still Standing

Still Standing

Twice in my life I have had the great fortune to travel across Canada’s vast prairies, once by train, and again this summer by pick up truck. Both times I was struck by how the often flat landscape could be punctuated by “Prairie Sentinels,” the...
What’s In a Name?

What’s In a Name?

As it turns out, the town of Aneroid, Saskatchewan, population 45, got its name from the first site surveyors who lost their aneroid barometer there! Do you know what an aneroid barometer is? Ya, I didn’t either and ironically I was bringing one such device back...
“Everything I Was I Carry With Me”

“Everything I Was I Carry With Me”

On the Red Coat Trail you can see the horizon for miles and miles. When I stopped to take the photo above I was mid-way through southern Saskatchewan, stopped to take a photo of two steam threshers, side by side, marking the entrance to a ranch that could not yet be...
Greetings From Cochrane Alberta!

Greetings From Cochrane Alberta!

This is the view of my new town, Cochrane, Alberta, from the top of Big Hill Road bright and early this morning. The lights of the town nestled in the Bow Valley sparkle against the looming Rocky Mountains. Still on Eastern Standard Time, I got up in the chill, still...