Category Archives: National Parks

Horses of the High Country

Good friends operate the trailriding in summer and sleigh rides in winter, at beautiful Lake Louise in Banff National Park. Their winter pasture is high up on the front range of the rockies just east of the park. I was lucky enough to visit there for the spring gather a few years ago; an unforgettable experience.  

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Chain Lakes

This weekend was a celebration with my classmates of our graduation from nursing school many years ago (not saying how many!) We met in Banff and had 3 days of catching up and enjoying the last days of September in one of the most beautiful towns anywhere in the world.  I always like to check out the back roads, so today I took “The Cowboy Trail” from Turner Valley to Chain Lakes and then cut across country to home, gathering fabulous visuals and visits with even more friends. It took all day, so no painting….  Instead, this photo, taken about 25 miles west of Nanton,  of Chain Lakes and the Porcupine Hills stretching up to the Rockies.

Laughing Loon

Today we have a photo, taken this afternoon while canoeing on Police Outpost Lake.  Right  on our border with the US, and a few miles east of Waterton Parks, this beautiful small lake once was the site of a NWMPolice post, established  in about 1880 to keep an eye on illegal whiskey trade.  We spent a peaceful afternoon watching and photographing loons, bald eagles, pelicans, grebes and more!  This gorgeous loon was really ticked off with us, and though he looks like he’s laughing, he was scolding us in that hauntingly beautiful and echo-y voice.

Heirloom Chaps

This is the detail on one of the pairs of beautiful old chaps handed down to my friend Janet from her grandparent’s generation. The Brewsters are an institution in the   guiding and mountaineering of our National Parks here in Alberta, and these chaps are just a sample of the historical treasures that their family preserves.   SOLD

5 X 7″ on 200 lb paper

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Alpine Abstraction

Yesterday’s painting of the cow and this one are both further  attempts at abstraction.  I don’t know if you can see the difference, but I limited myself to one brush; a small flat sable brush.  Usually I’d mostly use round brushes in various sizes.  Using the flat brush forces me to ignore many small details I’d normally include, and the brush work is different as well.  It’s fun and it’s good for my process.  This still looks like the landscape west of Canmore, but that’s OK too. 

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Ramparts

More vertical landscape from my trip to the mountains…this wall of towering rock is just west of the Canmore townsite. When you’re born and raised in a horizontal landscape, as I have been, this sight is awe inspiring! 

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The Prince of Wales

While we’re in Waterton, may as well check out the P.O.W, truly one of my favourite sights.  Built in 1927 by the Great Northern Railway, it is like taking a quick trip to the European Alps.  With it’s soaring roofs, gables, balconies and stunning view of Waterton Lake, it is a treat not to be missed. 
This is us looking at it from “The International” out on the lake.  Oh, and if you’re up for tea in the afternoon?  Every day from 2 till 5.

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Waterton Vista

This is the view of Waterton, looking  from north to south, towards Glacier Park in Montana, with Blackiston Creek in the foreground. The implausibly craggy peaks on the right, tower over the Upper Waterton Lake, and presided over my niece’s recent wedding. 
The official name of the park is “The Waterton/Glacier International Peace Park” and I have to say that just being there brings a definite feeling of peace.

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Rocky Mountain Romance

The daily painting gig has taken quite a hit this week due to travel, and health challenges and other assorted adventures.  Tonight I’m offering up a photo taken just this evening from the jetty at beautiful Waterton International Peace Park, in the far SW corner of Alberta and stretching into Montana, where it becomes Glacier Park. 

There’s a clan gathering; one of my precious nieces is getting married here tomorrow, at the edge of the lake. even the landscape is “in the mood for love” Why else would that little cloud be so gently kissing the mountain peak?

Yamnuska Spring

My good friends live right at the foot of Yamnuska (Wall of Stone) which is the very first mountain to rise above the foothillls, just north of highway 1 at Kananaskis.

All my life I’d noticed that unique mountain and marvelled at the sight of it.  Having gotten to know my friends Kevin and Janet, I’ve been lucky enough to visit right beneath it’s shelter. What a magnificent place to live and  have your horse  pasture. 
SOLD
 

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