Deep Shadows and Intense Highlights in Calgary Garden

September is really a beautiful month in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Although many signs of fall can be seen, there are still many scenes of the summer past. This is evident from the photographs that I took at Readers Rock Garden which show high colour and leafy plants. Fall also offers the opportunity to capture deep shadows and intense highlights from the fall position of the sun. Enjoy these photographs of the past.

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Summer Colors: A Season Missed (Part I)

Featuring photos taken last summer of garden flowers as promised in a previous post. These photographs are from my tour of Readers Rock Garden in Calgary. This is the first post of three of photographs not previously posted. The winter season is approaching and color from the summer season should be the cure for those winter blues.

Canyon Wonders: Waiting for the Thaw

A waterfall is featured at the very end of the Heart Creek Trail, east of Canmore, Alberta in the Rocky Mountains of Canada. It is located approximately 4 km from the trail head. Before you encounter the waterfall, the trail follows the bottom of a canyon and nearly parallels the creek that the falls spill into. You cross seven footbridges along the way. These photographs were taken at the end of November making for snow-covered canyon walls and water falls crystalized into a sheet of ice. The creek itself, in most parts stills runs freely and as you approach the falls, the sounds of gushing water can still be heard.

This is the last post of three parts of my hike at Heart Creek.

Winter Wonderland in the Canyon

There is nothing like hiking a trail through the depths of a canyon to come to realize just how small we as humans are in the scheme of the universe. However, the beauty of walking through a canyon, can make a person realize just how wonderful it is to be a part of that scheme.

During my hike last weekend at Heart Creek, east of Canmore, Alberta, Canada which is located in the Rocky Mountains, I was awed by the walls of the canyon, which narrowed on each side of me as I progressed into the heart of the trail. The fresh layer of snow and the sound of a swift moving creek made the experience all that much more meaningful.

Meandering Creek through a Mountain of Snow

Living less than an hour away from the Rocky Mountains in Canada is truly a blessing in disguise, particularly for those who like to spend the weekends hiking and for those who seek photographic opportunities. Every season brings something new and something different.

These photographs were taken Saturday at Heart Creek, just east of Canmore, Alberta. The stream, for the most part was still very much moving, but had some ice cover in the slower moving areas. The white snow lining the edges of the blue moving water, only adds to the serene experience of hiking in between the high walls of a mountain canyon.