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Vacations rock. Especially vacations in the sun. I was fortunate enough to be invited along on a family vacation with a close friend to stay with them just outside of Kelowna at a lovely home in Winfield on Wood Lake. On the agenda for this vacation? Sun, swimming, relaxing, drinking, eating and just having an all around great time, and more sun of course. Did I manage to check off all of the above you ask? Hell yes! I had a wonderful time, managed to get the first real tan I’ve had in years, met Jarome Iginla (the very handsome hockey player), drank like a fish and made some fantastic new friends from Vancouver in the process. Trip to Van anyone? This was the first vacation without my children (now both adults) in a very long time, and while I missed them tons, it was a much needed break from the responsibilities and every day stress of life. After a week away I looked forward to coming home and seeing them again, but at the same time, wish I was back there now. Thank you for the invite Jessica Curran! Here’s to next year!

Met up with my friend Zoey for a coffee date/photo walk at Fratello Analogue Cafe on 17th Avenue in Calgary last week. Caught this as we were leaving. A table with one chair, and two coffees sitting on it. One empty coffee and one almost full coffee. Wonder what the story is there?

I bought flowers for my daughter’s 21st birthday a few weeks ago, and after they died, replacement flowers. They were a much needed bit of colour and life at home while another Calgary winter dragged on and on endlessly. I needed the reminder that spring would come and life would, in fact, get better.

I had just walked into work the morning of December 4th when I noticed the beginnings of a beautiful sunrise outside the office window. The office is on the 34th floor of Bow Valley Square in Calgary, so it has a great view of downtown and to the south. It’s a view that I love and have photographed a number of times, although never with a result quite like this. I stood at the window and captured this shot with my iPhone as the sun came up over the city, casting a reddish hue over everything. You can see the reflection of the fluorescent office lights behind me in the window and I love the atmosphere that the exhaust from the towers downtown adds to the photo. The result looks a little bit eerie and apocalyptic.