• The Elbow falls were another stop on our day trip few days back. As winter approaches, the Elbow river is pretty low, and one can already see some ice above the falls. An enchanted place we love to visit few time every year, in different seasons, to see how it changes.... and... it's only around 50 km away from home. Close *s*.

Before winter comes

Down it flows

• Photo Friday challenge this week is Patterns.

It came to be @ 03:30 PM MT

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love the motion in this picture.

Tine | 11.23.04 - 4:51 pm |

• One of the things I love to do while we're driving around downtown or other parts of the city is - no surprise - taking motion photos from the van. Sometimes, they come out pretty sharp too. In other times, there's nothing much to see there but blurry stuff.

So today we post four photos, three of which were taken from the van while driving around. The first one was taken in the downtown area few days back (when we returned from our day trip to Bragg Creek and the Elbow falls). The next two sunset tree photos were also taken from the van, and the last sunset photo is from the Bow river. All were taken the same afternoon.

Tree & building

Tree & sky 1

Tree & sky 2

Bow at sunset

• Thursday Challenge for November 18, 2004 is Everyday things.

It came to be @ 10:30 AM MT

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Ahh... so this is your blog. It looks really nice. I like the tree picture with the building behind.

Well... I think I will ad your blog to my blog roll. Selah!

Hidden Nook | 11.19.04 - 10:15 am |

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Hey girl, that's a mighty big building! I scrolled down and your still holding that piece of ice!

Joe | 11.19.04 - 12:49 pm |

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Hey, Hidden Nook... I'm glad you found us... and thanks :-))

Joe, you're one of a kind, dude. I like you :-))

Lorien | 11.19.04 - 1:50 pm |

• These two doggies were watching their "mom" while she was eating. Look at their eyes, yearning for a bite. So cute... and funny! *s*.

Give us some too!

• lensday.com challenge for November 17, 2004 is Funny.

• New gallery links with lots of gorgeous photos worth visiting:
• Thamer's Photo Galleries - The Still Life & Animals galleries are most impressive!
• Rune Werner Molnes's Photo Galleries - Macro, Flora, Portraits - All galleries show wonderful colors, beautiful photography!
• Russ P's Photo Galleries - "Land Of Fog And Spider"s is a most impressive gallery, but so are all the rest. Check it!
• Stan Richard's Photo Galleries - Gorgeous Aurora Borealis photos... and much more!
• Brian Klimowski's Photo Galleries - Lots of amazing landscape photos... Amazing!!!
• Howard Holley - Golden Hour Photography - Photography of the southwest USA. Wow!!!

It came to be @ 10:50 AM MT

It was a sunny day yesterday (Monday), the last of Joe's 5 days weekend, so we decided to drive to Bragg Creek area. From Bragg Creek we drove towards the Elbow falls, and on the way we stopped at Allen Bill pond. In summer time it's a great place for fishing and picnicking, and in winter the pond freezes and people can skate on it.

When we approached the pond we noticed most of it was already covered with ice. I've tried to break a piece of it, and it was around 0.5 cm thick. The wind was gusting from time to time, and when it did - the ice was covered with ripples of water and the reflection of the trees and sky disappeared for few seconds. It sure was a strange sight.

We'll post more photos from this trip in the next few days.

Glass or ice?

Ice reflection

Allen Bill Pond

It came to be @ 12:02 AM MT

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Wonderful! Are you guys using the same camera all the time. The pictures are so clear. It's like I am there!

Joe | 11.16.04 - 1:56 pm |

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The same old camera, Joe... though we dream of a new one, a SLR... with good lenses.... one day :-))

Lorien | 11.16.04 - 5:11 pm |

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings said it best: "I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to."

Anne | 11.17.04 - 10:26 am |

• Joe's son got married yesterday. We took lots of photos during the ceremony and the reception, but the newly weds didn't like the idea of having their photos on the web. They agreed to have this one photo online, though... we asked, and made sure it was ok, and they won't shoot us for doing so *s*.

It was a beautiful ceremony, an emotional one as well. Weddings bring people together, allowing them to leave whatever disagreements they have behind. Guys, if you're reading this by any chance (probably making sure we kept our promise to upload only this one photo) - we wish you all the best... for eternity *s*.

Sealed with a kiss

Sweet roses

Chocolate fountain

Joined lights

• i-gizmo challenge for November 13, 2004, is Tree.

It came to be @ 05:04 PM MT

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Congrats. I bet it was beautiful! Joe is walking on air!

Joe | Email | Homepage | 11.14.04 - 6:53 pm |