We've been in Banff National Park, an annual retreat to the mountains to celebrate the festival of Saint Nicholas (aka. Sinterklaas, which is December 6 but we couldn't get a place for those dates and we're not real purists on this one). Today we went tobogganing in a forest clearing with Cascade Mountain to the… Continue reading Friday photos
I woke up way too early this past week, wondering who had left a light on. I came into our kitchen and saw a fully moon-lit and shadowed backyard.
Yesterday with friends visiting from Vancouver, we bundled up the kids and headed to the downtown cenotaph for the Remembrance Day service. We missed most of it (who can find a parking spot anywhere and isn't the moment of silence to be observed at eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of… Continue reading Friday photos – memento
With autumn's inevitable pushing back of the morning sunrise, we're actually awake to watch it happen. Owen and Lily have been glued to the front window this week, watching the sun light up the eastern sky. Lily calls the morning clouds the "northern lights," which is not far off - just during the day and… Continue reading Friday photos – morning northern lights
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