Monthly:July 2020
This image, taken from Beatty Road, is from my very first visit to Death Valley. Visiting in the fall of 1995, I recall going to a Houston Aeros ice hockey game and scoring some free nights at the Imperial Palace, Las Vegas. While that was also my first visit to Vegas, I found the desert more alluring. That day, clouds had moved in during the overnight hours. As the sun rose the sky was a symphony of color. Had I […]
What could be better than standing on the sidewalk outside the Calgary Tower on an early March evening? Anything. Literally anything. That could be too harsh. The temperature was a balmy freezing that night. When I was last in Calgary, this past January, the low was -26°C/-15°F. Needless to say, I wasn’t out on the streets that night. The Calgary Tower opened to the public on June 30, 1968. At that time is was the tallest building in Canada west […]
