A few of my shots from Eric's 2008 Volleyball season. For having last volleyball season off to heal a dislocated shoulder he became a pretty good setter.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Volleyball 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Flatlands Vistas
An assortment of vistas from Saskatchewan & Southeastern AB.
Flatlands Sky
Sometimes that big old sky is the main feature on the landscape
Flatlands Wildlife
A sampling of wildlife shots from my Saskatchewan / Southeastern AB trip in September 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Nihahi Ridge
An easy scramble / ridgewalk November 2, 2008.
Nihahi Ridge, +-2350m, 17km, +-800m gain. Fairly straight forward ridge-walking ending with a descent down Nihahi creek which was dry but provided a mini canyoneering adventure down the slippery polished rock creek bed. A cool start to the day but an uncharacteristic +16 by the time I got back to the truck.
Incidentally this was a reward to myself for finally finishing my revised CLD portfolio. The final push was a 13 hour day in the office on Saturday to finish the schedules and check everything for errors. Bug eyes!!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Calendar Worthy
I recently submitted some photos to a hiking forum that I frequent where the various submissions were voted on for the annual calendar. I was pleased that one of my Michele Lakes shots was chosen for November 2009.
My user name on that site is 'Sodbuster' and its a great site for hiking info & inspiration plus some of the other members are great photographers who don't mind sharing some tips now and then.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Highwood Pass - Larch
Highwood Pass ramblings… Sunday Oct 5, 2008. +-10 km, +-750m elevation.
My annual trip to the mountains when the Larch are in fall color mode. A touch late this year but still worth the trip even with the snow showers and low ceiling.
A shot back from just west of Longview. Love that view, the yellow this time courtesy the Aspens.
Flatlands
Sept 24-30, 2008 I took a road trip thru part of southern Alberta and into Saskatchewan visiting Cypress Hills, Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan Landing, the longest pedestrian bridge in Canada (it’s in Outlook SK), Regina to visit Glen and Tim, Unity to visit Hank and family (and do an overnighter canoe trip on the North Saskatchewan), the dunes of the Great Sand Hills, and the Badlands of Dinosaur PP in AB. 3061 km of mostly back roads… some say I’m crazy but it was a great break and I saw many cool things. I’ll get some more pictures up in a while, right now its round two of my CLD (Certified Landscape Designer) portfolio and the ‘fall push’. 
I took this shot on my way home at Hwy 23 & 24 east of High River. I missed seeing the mountains on the western skyline.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Gone 'Scap'n
Sliding into fall so I decided to set aside the hiking stuff for a couple weeks and finish a neglected section along the side of my house. When we first moved in it was garden, then over the years it has mostly been weeds & or storage and staging areas for materials while other parts of the garden were developed. I built the canoe shed in 2002 out of scrap material.
Oh, the garden isn't done yet and neither is this section. Have to finish the hammock arbour maybe in the winter and plant in the spring... but there must always be loose ends!
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