too many tulips now my brother will say

My brother teases me that all I post are pictures of deer...or clouds and now he will say all I post are tulips...but 3 snowfalls in 10 days - is it any wonder I want colour?

The snow hasn't stayed long but since Alberta is never a riot of colour - more monochromatic than anything else - I do look for colour where I can.
Pussywillows are by the river.

This morning - bliss!

Gwen D. from Nova Scotia is here in a writing program and she asked "was there anything I wanted from Nova Scotia" before she arrived. I said "my friends" but because they won't fit in your suitcase, I would love an oatcake from Stevereno's. SHE BROUGHT ME 4!!!! and I am delirious with joy.

They are even better than I remember them.

So this morning I got up very early, 5:30, read some of the new Ian McEwan novel, Solar, made a pot of coffee - made from Just Us coffee from Grand Pre - brought to me by darling Janet B. who was here for last week's writing program, and sat and closed my eyes and had great coffee and an oatcake from Stevereno's in front of me.

Then I realized I had to phone my friend Liza H. with whom I almost always went to Stevereno's with on Saturday mornings. So when I heard her voice it was as perfect as it could have been without actually being there. WOW!!!

Yesterday went with Santi and Kathy to Cascade Ponds and Vermillion Lake. Saw Blue winged teals...the small pair in the picture are those.

A miscellany of photos from the past few weeks. I have left out pictures of our last blizzard since the warm, sunny days have melted it from my memory. The last shot though is of rocks - that look like mushrooms - covered with snow

It rained today in Banff. When I say to friends here that it is so rare to see rain in Banff they all reply that "It rained all last summer".

I think it has rained four times in the year and a half that I have been here.

A deer - wet coated from the rain - jaywalking in front of me on The Banff Centre Campus.

And a sure sign of spring - skinny Columbian ground squirrels, out of hibernation, having dug our of their burrows.

One dog phot (sideways!) and a few mountainscapes from a trip to the off-leash Canmore dog park.

I have been taking lots of pictures of tulips and other flowers which I treat myself to from the store - they are as cheap as $2.50 a bunch while everything else in Banff is exorbitantly ten times the usual price - anyway I have been playing with the camera and some of the photos are the results.