Writing on Stone Provincial Park Alberta it’s Magic!

While sitting on a bench over looking the park and Milk River below, my imagination drifted off to what an absolutely spectacular place this must have been five hundred years ago when the buffalo would have filled the landscape while gorging on the lush grasses. I couldn't stop thinking of things such as this during the whole time of my visit at Writing on Stone park.. must be a magical place. Sacred to the Blackfoot and other First Nations peoples, all that I can say to anyone reading this blog is that Writing on Stone Park needs to be experienced rather than written about to be fully appreciated. Yes its one of those places for me!

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Icefields Parkway in Early June

Hello everyone. This week I decided to make another road trip. Now that the pandemic restrictions are easing a bit I wanted to go to the mountain parks to hopefully capture some images. We landscape and wildlife photographers (which I kind of fit into that category sometimes) are a quirky lot preferring little or even better, no people around when and wherever we go out to a location.

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Cedar Waxwings

Recently, a flock of Cedar Waxwings spent a few days in my backyard and it was the perfect opportunity to capture a few images of these handsome birds and to study some of their behaviors. There are few birds that I see where I live that are as striking as these birds with there black masked eye bands and beautiful coloured plumage.

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Wild Crocus Flowers

Always a sign that spring is finally here (after all its seems to me that summer is only six weeks either side of July in Western Canada), these beautiful but short-lived blooms emerge and add a purple and blue splash colour to the prairie landscape often before the leaves on deciduous trees have even emerged.

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