Smell the mountains

You’ve heard the saying, slow down and smell the coffee. Well, what about slow down and smell the mountains? We drove through the mountains on Tuesday after a partial day around Calgary. Leaving Calgary and heading towards Canmore, the road is mostly “boring”….okay, you can sense that you aren’t in the mountains. As you come…

Ottawa

This city was home to us from 1995 to 2000. It was a beautiful city that we enjoyed, and it was evident that the culture of the city while related to it being the capital of Canada, was not dependent upon it. Music, parks, hockey, university life, health care and lovely streets with markets and…

The Waters

With Father’s Day just past us, I’ve been thinking about my Dad, and his Dad. I’m the third-generation male Waters to live in Canada. Before that, they were all in the UK, seemingly coming from the area now known as Chatham, but from one of the towns that now make up that city, the town…