Call of the Wild

All photos taken on our September 16, 2021 walk through Bunchberry Meadows/Tucker’s Field Wildlife opportunities seem to be diminishing as fall comes on. We did see a deer this day, but I was not quick enough with the camera. Here is what I did capture.

Local Colour

NOTE: This post contains slideshows and if you are reading it on your phone, it is best viewed direct from the SITE, rather than in the READER. All photos taken on our September 16, 2021 walk in Bunchberry Meadows/Tucker’s Field. Local Colour © Tanka Bunchberry adorned with bright autumnal splendour. Hiking this forest is a

Road Trip – Slough View

NOTE: This post contains slideshows and if you are reading it on your phone, it is best viewed direct from the SITE, rather than in the READER. All photos taken on September 26, 2021 on our walk from PLB and past Cottonwood Slough. By the end of lunch, we had finally dried off from our

Road Trip – Row, Row, Row Your Boat

NOTE: This post contains slideshows and if you are reading it on your phone, it is best viewed direct from the SITE, rather than in the READER. All photos taken on September 26, 2021 at Patricia Lake, Jasper National Park. Even with Covid precautions, PLB was back in the business of renting watercraft (row boats,

Road Trip – Please Sir – May I Have S’more

NOTE: This post contains slideshows and if you are reading it on your phone, it is best viewed direct from the SITE, rather than in the READER. All photos taken September 25, 2021 at Patricia Lake Bungalows. In all the years we have been going to PLB, we have never once sat around the resort

Road Trip – Evening Reflections

All photos taken on September 25, 2021. We took a similar tactic as a family, as we did when we were here by ourselves. Each evening, we would stop what we were doing to wander down to the lake at or near “sunset”. That word is in quotes, as we did not really get a

Not So Hot

All photos taken during our September 16, 2021 hike through Bunchberry Meadows/Tucker’s Field. You have all likely read my complaint about how hot this hike was during our summer heat wave. Today, there was no need to complain. The temperature at hike time was between +8 and +10 C (46-50 F) and the wind was

This Merlin is a Real Wizard!!

All photos taken September 13, 2021 on an evening walk near our home. As I wrote in my recent Birds of Beaumont series on my last blog site, here. We have a small resident population of Merlin Falcons in Beaumont. They used to be known as pigeon hawks, but to us, they are much more

Down by the Lake

All photos taken on September 12, 2021 on an in city walk. Our long delayed city festival Town and Country Daze is on this weekend, complete with a parade, midway, fireworks and other huge mass gatherings. Quite frankly, we could not steel ourselves to go into the unmasked throng to take advantage of any of

Pleasing to the Palette

NOTE: This post contains slideshows and if you are reading it on your phone, it is best viewed direct from the SITE, rather than in the READER. All photos taken during our September 7, 2021 walk through Bunchberry Meadows and Tucker’s Field. This is a companion post to my weekly hike post here, showing how