After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die. Donald Culross Peattie

 

On the nine hour drive from Calgary to Central Saskatchewan on Dec. 29th we saw almost no snow. The fields were mostly bare the entire way. Given that we had watering restrictions right up to Nov. in Calgary and only two small snowfalls in Calgary from mid Oct to Christmas it has been an incredibly dry fall and winter. The bit snow at the farm is way below average and the temperatures unseasonably warm.

 

The pages above are from A Book Of Hours by Donald Culross Peattie, 

Decorations by Land Ward, 1937. The book was a Christmas gift from my brother. 

Mountain Road Trip - Continued

                       "The practical importance of the preservation of our forests
                       is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams. "

                       - John Muir

Crow in Calgary

"Go on, wild voice; the world's in need of singing

A sort of dead of winter holds the heart.

The climate's changed." 

from Upon a Bird Singing on Parliament Hill

by James Wreford