Despite the title of this blog I’m including a post about an outing where no tracks at all were left behind. What, was I levitating? Well, no, but I was floating, and was happy to have stayed that way throughout the entire maiden “voyage” of my inflatable kayak this morning. After a couple of years…
The Bluejay – Charron Community Cemetery is located northeast of Atmore, Alberta which is near the junction of Highway 55 and Highway 63. The cemetery is tidy and well-maintained. It also has a distinctive number of wooden “patriarchal”-style Christian crosses which have two crossbars as opposed to the far more common one crossbar or distinctive…
St. Anthony of Padua Church and Cemetery are located southwest of Medicine Hat. The church has fallen into disrepair and seems to stand as a symbol of a past reality now fading. A story entitled “Tattered rural church tells an historic story” written by Gillian Slade and published in the Medicine Hat News on July…
Aetna is a hamlet in Cardston County, Alberta. Its namesake, strangely enough, is Mount Etna, an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily. Etna is fact one of the world’s most active volcanos and is in an almost constant state of activity. A Google search of the place name brings up many other towns…
There is very little information online about Prospy Cemetery save what is inscribed on the large cairn on site. William Jasper Hackworth donated the land for the graveyard in 1914 where his wife was buried that same year. The images from this cemetery are few. But when post-processing I had a lot of fun taking…
It’s nearing the end of April, 2022 here in Alberta, Canada. The cherry blossom season has already come and is long gone in Japan this year. So I don’t think it is too much to ask to expect to capture a little bit of spring “springing”, or nature “naturing” as I embark on a little…
Seven Persons is a hamlet in Cypress County, Alberta about 20 km southwest of Medicine Hat. The first thing I wondered is how “Seven Persons” got its name. Most assume the hamlet was named after nearby Seven Person’s creek, which of course begs the question of how the creek got its name. There are a…
Hillcrest Cemetery is located in Hillcrest, Alberta (also known as Hillcrest Mines), and is a large sprawling place. The images below don’t do justice to the number nor the variety of different types of grave sites in cemetery. The event that naturally overshadows one’s visit is the Hillcrest Mine disaster which occurred on Friday June…
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”― John Muir The trails in the Ministik Game Bird Sanctuary are largely unmaintained, wild, and unpeopled. That’s what gives the whole area its unique character and it’s that character that keeps…
The journey wasn’t a particularly difficult one. A geocaching buddy Hugh and I trudged across lake ice early in March, 2021 to get to an island on which a “puzzle” geocache was hidden. The story of that experience could be made more dramatic if two of us were hunched over walking into howling wind and…
