While Duane and his family went to check out Ft. Steele, Leah and I headed out to Canmore to try our hand at the Canmore Nordic Center biking trails. Very fun. Since my brother and I are officially registered in next year’s TransRockies race, you’ll probably be hearing a little bit more about my biking and training. I’ll be honest, I am a little bit intimidated by the race given my lack of biking experience. You know that feeling of ‘Hoo-boy, what have I gotten myself into?” Yeah, that’s me right about now. Especially after seeing some of the guys ripping around on the trails at Canmore – their are some unbelievably talented riders out there. I am definitely a little bit out of my league with all of this stuff, but plan on overcoming my many shortcomings in this area with lots of hardwork (train, train, train!) and many, many miles under my tires! I figure that I had some sort of rite-of-passage a week and a half ago when I went over my handlebars and landed squarely on my head. It’s got to get better from there right? Here’s to hoping!

A couple of visuals, but only a couple, since most of the time was spent biking!

I made Leah grab a shot of me!

My folks are in town so instead of staying in Calgary we decided to take them out to the mountains for a weekend.  After much deliberation we headed out to Kimberly to stay at a friend’s condo and made a few day trips so they could see the area a little.  Saturday we all piled into the van and went to Fort Steele.  It’s a historic village that was put in place during the Gold Rush in south-eastern BC in the late 1800s.  If you’ve ever been to Heritage Park here in Calgary you’ve had a similar experience to Fort Steele.

I’ll be completely honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect at Fort Steele and I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to enjoy it.  I brought along the camera and actually had a pretty good time snapping pictures.  There were lots of great lines, neat textures, and the weather was perfect and gave us a nice blue sky!

This one would have to be one of my favourite shots of the day.

This stove was imported all the way from London, ON.

Appealing to my love of symmetry!

I am super bummed that we won’t be able to be around on these guys’ wedding. I had never met them before tonight, but you know how sometimes you just get a sense that you are in the company of good people? They laughed lots and were so friendly which is to say nothing of their ability to laugh at life’s little curveballs, right guys?

…always chasing light… so tired… can’t stop….

My favorite from the session.

Sometimes it is so hard to live in Flames country. I closed my eyes to take this picture. Go Oilers Go!

There is always time for a casual portrait or two!

Thanks guys! All the best to you as you plan your big day!

It seems that we can’t get enough of Alison and Steve on our blog!  This will be Steve’s third appearance and Alison’s second…she has a little catching up to do.

We’ve kept in pretty close contact with these two since their wedding last year and really enjoy getting together with them.  Honestly, it was almost as if I was just hanging out with friends tonight and I happened to have my camera, just a little more planned!  We If the light hadn’t faded on me I could have stayed out with them all night long as they are just so easy to work with.

Here’s a few of my favourite shots from the evening.

Another gorgeous fall evening with super-saturated colours! Hard to go wrong with that combination! We decided to head downtown to use some of the parkades that Duane had discovered while out exploring a few weeks ago. I think they turned out quite nicely!

Us hard at work?