Day in Nordegg

We were home on the long weekend and took a day-trip with our friends Travis and Joanna to Nordegg, a historic coal-mining town that closed in 1955. It's in the Rocky Mountains.

Joanna's grandfather plus several of his brothers were some of the miners who worked there. The town is being restored.

We looked up the house where her grandparents lived.

We checked out old buildings...

and old cars...

and old bridges and barns and mine shaft entrances, etc.
All in all, it was a great day!

More pictures below.

Nordegg Collage

Click to enlarge.

Happy Anniversary to Darrell and Jess!

Ten years ago!

It was a happy day and a great wedding.

Hope you have a great day today!

Photos by Bill Ginther

Spring in the North

We were in Slave Lake area this weekend and I enjoyed photographing some birds like this purple finch. I noticed this year, as in some other years, that the leaves emerge earlier in the north. Their elevation is lower than the foothills and their weather not as erratic.


Red-breasted nuthatch.

They are fun to watch as they walk upside-down.

Blue Jay.


Evening grosbeak.
I always enjoy these big, colorful birds.

Happy Mother's Day to our Daughters-in-law!

To Magan...
who bore our first grandchild,
who promptly had her life turned upside-down
by a baby who didn't seem to need sleep,
and through it all mothered with love and devotion
and has emerged a confident mother of two.

To Juanita...
for whom pregnancy meant extreme illness,
weight loss and hospitalization,
yet has counted motherhood worth the cost
and has mothered with ease, practicality and humour.

To Jessica...

whose longing for motherhood set her on a long,

heart-wrenching and terrible path,

yet has endured until she was called "mama",

and this year for the first time we can say, "Happy Mother's Day"!

We love you all and are thankful that God gave us

daughters-in-law who value motherhood

and who love our sons and grandchildren.

Have a wonderful Mother's Day!

Love,

Mom