The sun shines!

Last evening as I drove east and then west on the same road, the sun was setting. It seemed dramatic, especially on my westbound trip heading home. The sun was coloured by the smoke in the air ,and the haze gave a ghostly outline to the downtown office towers. On the prairies, the sun is…

News from The Villa

It’s been a cold week! Minus 30 overnight, lots of snow, and my goodness, suddenly, we have lots of snow on the ground. I haven’t done an update on our neighbourhood for a while, and so I thought I should acknowledge that we’ve lost Bud and Sylvia recently. As I was thinking about this year’s…

Pictures into the sun

We in the west did not get the dramatic eclipse experience this week. We have to wait for another 20 years… and so we’ll wait. Not the end of the world – and yes I mean that. Sunday after supper Fitz and I went over the soccer field near his house. This kid is soccer…