Spring... Better Late Than Never

The following 13 photos were taken within about a week as I was coming home from Tucson to Calgary and then  to Mayne Island, BC... signs of spring in Canada.

We saw several groups of Prong Horn Antelope close to the highway in Montana and southern Alberta.

The day we left Calgary it snowed... giving me goose bumps on my sunburn.  They say, "Alberta has ten months of winter and two months of tough sledding."

What a surprise to see these new tulips almost ready to burst into blossom.

New fern fronds getting ready to leaf out.

"Weeds are nature's graffiti."  ~Janice Maeditere

"Plant and your spouse plants with you, weed and you weed alone." 

"Earth laughs in flowers."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." ~Claude Monet

"All flowers in time bend towards the sun, 
I know you say there's no one for you, 
But here is one."
-Jeff Buckley

“I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.” -Georgia O'Keefe

"He who plants a tree
Plants a hope."
~Lucy Larcom

"Where flowers bloom so does hope." -Ladybird Johnson

"The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfillment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight." 
-  John Ruskin   

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Coming Back to Canada

As we were coming thru Montana on the last leg of the trip to Calgary I stopped to capture this water tower.  I have never seen one yet with Sherwin or Sherilee on it... but thought my son might smile when he sees this.

I enjoyed seeing several herds of prong horn antelope in Montana.

After getting up really early and making it thru the border crossing in 5 minutes... we had plenty of time to enjoy my favourite Head Smashed-In Buffalo Jump... only to find that it was closed on Easter Sunday.  But we did come back on Wednesday for an enjoyable visit.

Marilyn had a fabulous Easter dinner prepared ... and the desserts were over the top.

Since I couldn't decide which one to have I had a piece of each.  Very Yummy.  I can see what a week in Paris did to her!

Seize the moment.  Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.  ~Erma Bombeck