The Festival of Words in Moose Jaw... in a town with only one bookstore!
Trolley tour
Downtown Moose Jaw has many murals
Careful...moose crossing!
Moose Jaw's Crescent Park
Travis, Nikky & Kid Brother
Kid Brother's Kid, Aiden
Bart
Overlooking Willow Bunch, SK from J.L. Legare Regional Park
Aunty Judy with Terena's kids: Torie, Brandon & Madison
With Mom, Terena & Nikky
Mom, me, Travis, Aunty Judy with manfriend Pat, Terena & kids, Grandma Wood =4 generations
Ye olde Farm House on the homestead established by my great grandpa in 1905. It has housed 4 generations of my family. Now it houses only raccoons!
Nobody has lived here for 10 years, so the yard is pretty grown over.
Remnants of the barn in the background -it was moved
The road allowance I drove up and down before I was legal to do so! I learned to drive when I was 9.
The lake is so dry you can see the alkali blowing off it.
My old play place. I remember some springs the runoff was so high it was nearly to the top of this culvert.
I skinned many a knee in here.
Aunty Judy & Mom
The Big Muddy Badlands, not too far from our farm.
Castle Butte
Inside the cave
Look closely -you can see Travis & Wayne climbing back down.
Burrowing Owl
1 truck, 5 people, 5 different sleep schedules, 5 different temperaments, 5 days. We'll see...!
Cypress Hills
Seriously, some people down in Key West don't know what a texas gate is, so I took a picture of one!
Fort Walsh
The two kids were turned trained to be constables. They later arrested a few of us, and we had a mock trial.
The hoodoos near Drumheller, AB
Look closely again...
...Yes, they had to climb everything!
We feasted on strawberries and fresh peas for 2 days.
You can climb right up into this guy.
Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, AB
Nobody believes me when I tell them that the parts of me that aren't tanned are as white as my English mother. She actually does have a bit of a tan, here. Not so for my brother's legs!
Castle Mountain, on the old #1 highway between Banff and Lake Louise, Canadian Rockies
Dad went nuts for the wildlife, and it was a hoot for Travis, too.
Lake Louise -the glacier is much smaller than when I last saw it.
Nearby Moraine Lake, one of my favourite spots on the planet.
The first time I saw it, I couldn't believe the colour of the water. Did someone drop a bottle of dye in here?
Hoodoos near Banff
Banff
Sulphur Mountain, Banff
Bear butt
Castle Mountain again (can't get enough of this one!)
Johnston Canyon, another one of my favourites
The first set of falls.
You can go through the cave to see the falls from the other side.
The second and larger falls
Paw
The posh Banff Springs Hotel
The Paint Pots, Kootenay National Park.
The natives and the first European settlers used this mud as a dye.
On the Kootenay River
Again!
Aurora & Braedan
With Mom Rhonda. Dad John is an old friend of mine.
John took us out in the backcountry near Kimberley.
Johnny B
Looks like Mom is nervous about the drop off below!
This was a bit dangerous, really. The ice could fall at any time.
So why not climb in?!
Ribs and all, it looked like the storybook inside of a whale's belly!
This giant slab was shifting while we were there.
Paddling our way through the 'bergs.
We had to move this one out of the way, and it shifted and rolled over completely.
Frank Slide buried a whole town in 1903.
We need one of THESE on the boat!
Waterton Lake Park
Prince of Wales Hotel
Red Rock Canyon
With Tim, Karen & Lindsay
With Jay, Mel & Karen
Denae
Vida's pooches
Horseshoe Canyon
Trent & Clarke
& Eileen
Dante
Leah, Ayden & Frisco
Momma Kelly & Rosie
Jamie
Buddy, Dad's pet cow! It follow him around like a puppy dog.
Nikky & Aiden
Dad's birthday
Mom & Jerry
My prairie hometown.
This old convent is now a museum. I went to school here until grade 3.
Bustling main street, Willow Bunch!
What's up with the random multicoloured chair theme?...
My Grandpa Wood
