I’ve taken advantage of our great autumn weather this year to take a lot of photos of colourful fall scenes. Today, I’ll share a number of them, taken on two separate occasions. The first three were taken a little early in the season, on September 23. The aspen trees had not yet achieved full autumn…
Category: Water
Scenes from Jasper National Park
The second day of our Jasper trip was spent in the Maligne Valley, including a visit to the Maligne Canyon and a boat cruise down Maligne Lake. We did the boat cruise first, taking advantage of an earlier, less crowded boat. But, having avoided the crowds there, we arrived later at Maligne Canyon where it…
Scenes Along the Icefields Parkway
Last week, Rolande and I took a trip along the Icefields Parkway, a scenic route from Lake Louise to Jasper, Alberta. It’s a mountain road, best known for the Columbia Icefields and the glaciers that flow from it, many visible from the highway. The Columbia Icefield is the largest ice field in the Rocky Mountains. It’s located…
David Thompson Country
After completing my recent visit to Bow Lake, I ventured further north along the Icefields Parkway to an area of Alberta known as David Thompson Country. It’s located in Clearwater County, adjacent to Banff National Park. I reached it via Highway 11 from Saskatchewan River Crossing, 1/2 hour north of Bow Lake. The area is…
Bow Lake
I recently went on a photo excursion to an old favourite location along the Icefields Parkway, Bow Lake. I went with two friends and fellow photographers, Bob Bear and Hugh Williamson. We had been alerted that the lake was still frozen over and to our pleasant surprise, the ice was now melting, breaking up and…