by pattihenderson | Sep 11, 2016 | Weekend Adventures
15 years. It seems like yesterday doesn’t it? So much has changed in the world since that day. September 11, 2001. I took the photo above from the top of the Rockefeller Centre in 2009 looking out over Lower Manhattan. The Twin Towers once stood tall behind the...
by pattihenderson | Sep 5, 2016 | Weekend Adventures
Happy Labour Day long weekend everyone! On many past long weekends I have found myself seeking out the last rays of summer sunshine, attempting to attract a few more freckles before the fall season begins. This year, the weatherman predicted a rainy, cool long weekend...
by pattihenderson | Aug 14, 2016 | Weekend Adventures
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...
by pattihenderson | Aug 7, 2016 | Weekend Adventures
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...
by pattihenderson | Aug 1, 2016 | Weekend Adventures
Just before I left a friend reminded me to “never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.” This was brilliant advice that stayed with me as I drove my rather large pickup truck across interstates and highways on my cross-country quest to return...