Calgary Flood June 2013

A you may have seen on the news Calgary has experienced 

a severe flood in the last few days. While we have had

a wet June and a record rainfall in the city Thursday and 

Friday the main problem was even heavier rains in the 

mountains  feeding the Bow and Elbow rivers as they flow 

towards Calgary. This has caused great great damage and 

some deaths in the small communities along the rivers. In 

Calgary some 60,000 - 100,000 people have been evacuated 

from the neighborhoods along the river and downtown will 

probably be closed for several days to dry out the powers 

transformers. Helen and I are fine our home is in a higher area

 and we did not even lose power. While I do have photos of the

 flood I think I will instead offer some photos taken in our 

yard earlier in the week when the rain was just the rain..

In the rain a young dog eats grass. The old dog well...,

This osprey surveys the flood.

"Here, where the world is quiet;

         Here, where all trouble seems

Dead winds' and spent waves' riot

         In doubtful dreams of dreams;

I watch the green field growing

For reaping folk and sowing,

For harvest-time and mowing,

         A sleepy world of streams."

                            from The Garden of Proserpine

                                                    Algernon Charles Swinburne