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Autumnal

All of a sudden all of the leaves are turning yellow (and orange) and falling off

 

Aspen? Beech? I need to get me some tree edjumacation

 

 

Looking out over the yellowing trees of Canmore from below the Nordic Centre

 

 

Cougar Creek – not flowing at all now

 

So that’s the end of “Summer” in the Bow Valley

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Most awesome My Little Pony mods ever

Thanks to the friend who pointed me to these – My Little Pony for Geeks. Hurrah for modern pop culture and the Internet, where would we be without you? Why, we’d be making do with plain old-fashioned ordinary My Little Ponies, and the world would be a much less interesting place.

 

My Little Rorschach Pony (source)

 

 

My Little Avatar Ponies (source)

 

 

My Little Stormtrooper Pony (source)

 

 

My Little Edward Scissorhands Pony (source)

 

 

My Little Spock Pony (source)

 

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The Grand Dinosaur Adventure

(aka We Finally Visit The Royal Tyrrell Museum at Drumheller)
(and the World’s Largest Dinosaur)
(and the Moosling slept the whole time)

 

Black Beauty ( a Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil found in Alberta)

 

 

Stegosaurus

 

 

Archaeopteryx – a copy of the Berlin specimen, discovered in 1876 (the guy who originally found the fossil exchanged it for a cow)

 

 

Albertosaurus – a tyrannosaurid that used to live in Alberta

 

 

Woolly mammoth!

 

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The Highland Games

 

The Mass Pipe and Drums gathering

 

It was the 20th annual Highland Games in Canmore – lots of bagpipes and kilts and knitted socks with things tied round them, and caber tossing, drums and highland flinging. And genuine Scottish accents. And sheepdogs.

Most of the day was cold, overcast and miserable – nice and authentic highland weather. We took the moosling out for a few wanders around to check out everything, and ended up at the far end of the field for the mass pipe and drum event. They marched up to within 5 metres of us, bagpipes blaring, and he didn’t even stir – there really is something to the phrase ‘sleeping like a baby’.

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Rocky Mountain Finn

 

Out for a walk along the Bow River