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All dressed up with no place to go. I waited for slow-moving clouds to drift in and fill out this tress’s barren branches.

Our regal Maine Coon, Miss Scarlett, is so gorgeous in late afternoon sunlight. She looks stand-offish because she is.

We call it our boneyard. It’s filled with all manner of ornaments and statues, most decrepit or broken. Then there are the solar lights, all kinds, no rhyme or reason for their placement. My favourites are the ones that cast patterns. I never know which lights will be shining at night, so it’s fun peering out some nights to find a garden of lights. Especially during our long Alberta winters.

Meet Miss Scarlett, our purebred Maine Coon cat. Her handsome lioness features were accentuated by warm afternoon sunshine. A shot was imperative.

Our West Edmonton Mall is always a storehouse for photo opportunities. These are rental swan boats that glide around on a small lake in the mall.

I took a moment to look up and saw these lacy branches framing wispy clouds against a rich blue sky. I was sold.

On a whim, I made a quick trip to a small town called Devon. It is on a major river and usually has pretty views in the fall. I decided to include the highway bridge as a strong architectural statement in contrast to the natural surroundings.

A lucky moment. It was as if the clouds or the tree limbs were mimicking each other. Perfect against the rich blues of our Alberta skies.

I was leaving our local river park when I turned and saw this spectacular view. The iPhone upside down is so good at capturing both the angle of view and the exposure.

Our wild prairie skies. I took the screen out of our bedroom window so I can have unimpeded views of our beautiful autumn skies. Alberta, Canada.

Trochu, Alberta These historical old beauties can still be found in small town rural Alberta. The day was perfect for this ruddy red barn, with a gorgeous sky backdrop and rich foreground.

Sometimes you MUST take a shot. We were travelling on a back street in Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho, when this tower caught my eye. My husband had to make a U-turn for me to get the shot. Even then, I walked around for a bit trying to find the best angle so the clouds were cuddling the structure and everything was naturally framed.

No kidding. Somebody took the time to fashion a plane with a skeleton pilot with a wolf man stuck in the propeller. Gotta love roadside art. Northern Utah.

A tiny gravestone nearly lost in the shadows except for a warming ray of morning sunshine. Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho. Grandview Cemetery.

We arrived in Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho in heavy rain. Stopped at the visitor’s centre where I spotted this fragile lily, translucent and covered in rain drops.

A trip to our famous West Edmonton Mall with its very own ship.
The light is usually perfect for photography and the water adds that extra reflective element.

Road trip. Alberta has oodles of old churches, and in particular these handsome onion-domed churches. This is the Holy Trinity Russo Orthodox Church in Smoky Lake. Just gorgeous against that blue sky.

Another road trip this time up to Cold Lake. Alberta is so rich with abandoned aged buildings along the roadside. God provided the pretty blue sky and lacy clouds for a backdrop. The trees and the fencing were perfect frame edges.

Beauty of nature found in the front yard on the eaves drain downpipe. Snow followed by mild temps created this icy cascade.

I love old collapsed buildings heavily dressed in winter snow. The low sun gave this shot an ethereal glow. Taken along an Alberta highway.