It’s officially spring in my garden. Snowdrops are blooming in a bright cluster near the back door. This is a quirk of climate change,...

In January we stuffed our Christmas tree into a snowbank and I declared it would be spring when the tree fell over. It started to lean in...

It must be spring – Calgary is awash. We have deep piles of snow, getting heavy and thick in the top layers, roads covered in running...

I love when we get a really deep snowfall (well, I love it after we’ve dug out), and then a Chinook wind blows in and the snow begins to...

It’s snowing, again. After Christmas, we stuffed the Christmas tree in a snowbank in the front yard. Now it looks like we live in a...

Sunday I flew home from balmy San Diego (see palm fronds in sunlight, below), to ice and snow in Calgary. It was exquistely beautiful,...

My aptly named snowdrops, after a spring snowfall. Maureen

We drove to Banff to hike and have lunch out (at Coyotes, our favorite). The mountains were stunning, deep in white with every angle...

We still have piles of snow (how is that possible?) but plants are bravely venturing up, first snowdrops, and now some tiny crocus. Small...

In this land of inconsistent snow cover, a white Christmas one year in three, and (until recently) a side-street snow plowing policy of...

Winter has started with a great shebang here in Calgary. We had a lovely long fall, and then a winter storm hit. We’re now deep in cold...

We spent two nights at Storm Mountain Lodge, near Castle Mountain, in Banff National Park. Sunday night – a huge thunderstorm, rain...

It’s snowing. It’s the end of May, and it’s snowing. Again. I’m used to snow for the Victoria Day long weekend – there’s just tradition...

The snow is piled waist-high where we’ve shoveled. It’s cold and icily beautiful. A magpie digging through the snow over the...