Looking Back

This nasty invader is spreading at an alarming rate along roadsides

As surely as nature blooms and blossoms each spring, Isabel grew a beautiful life garden...

The old Italian Hall in Coleman has been given a bit of a work over

Exploring the Old Blairmore Cemetery

There ain’t nobody here but us chickens,
There ain’t noboby here at all.
So calm yourself and stop the fuss
There ain’t noboby here but us. 

So what say we back this theater bus up a bit and update everyone on how it has gone so far. 

How is it that the creations of Ovila St. Jean came to be the center piece of the Roxy Revival’s latest funding event?

When Day Turns to Night
“With a finger on your lips,
Watch the solar eclipse.”

Last weekend’s production of Snow White.

Thirty days has September,
April, June, and November,
All the rest I can’t remember

Roy was in the Michel Creek Valley mines for 13 years and he saw a lot.

For a few years I sat on the Bellevue Underground Mine board, working with a wonderful team to volunteers to promote and enhance the mine tour experience there.

“A mine is a mine. You go in, you never know if you gonna come out” - Pete Rotella

The very last thing that the FortisAlberta crews did, as part of their Coleman upgrade program here this year, was to install a simple pair of insulators.

“Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.”
- Rollo May

Of all the collective nouns you may have heard, like: a parliament of owls or a murder of crows; I’m bettin’ there is one you haven’t come across and that would be:”a profusion of pachyderms”.

The tradition of the playing of the Last Post goes back to around 1790 and was used by the British Army to signify to their soldiers to “stand down” for the day. 

Will you love the ‘you’ you hide? If I but call your name?
Will you quell the fear inside. And never be the same?
Will you use the faith you’ve found. To reshape the world around,
Through my sight and touch and sound. In you and you in me?
The Summons - John L. Bell - 1987

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky”
- Khalil Gibran

Father’s Day, Labour Day and a whole myriad of events are designated as “the day’ for supporting or celebrating that particular thing.  While it is significant to bring the subjects of these days into the light it is also important to remember that in some cases these acknowledgments should be on-going, not just for a day but for every single day of the year.