Right now in Canada trees should be turning brilliant colors, temperatures should be starting to fall and preparations for winter should be just around the corner. We arrived in brilliant sunshine, enjoyed that for a couple of days then woke up to a huge dump of out of season September snow. Overnight temperatures dropped to minus 10 degrees, roads were closed, power supplies were interrupted and tree limbs littered the streets – inconvenient for the local residents but an amazing site for us.

Twisted foothills of the Rocky Mountains

 Elbow River

These guys are the double decker bus version of a domestic cow

Wyeth like.

Warm fire on a cold night at Lyla and John’s

Small lake in the mountains above Banff

Mountain Goats learning to eat rocks

Driving through the snow covered prairies north of Calgary was a fantastic sight – soft, bleak and grey.

 Canadian optimism  –  Solar powered stop sign  

Badlands

Winter wood

Kila