Tag: Alberta

Road Trip

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Just wanted to share some shots from our latest trip, the ‘before’ and the ‘after’…

So much beauty, by day…

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… and by night, so much treachery… The Lexus flies!

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Yet the Lord has kept us in life, for His purposes.

We are his people, the sheep of His Hand.  In this we can rest…

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–LS

The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.  The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore. Ps.121:7-8 ESV

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P.S. The brief account of our frightening Ice Capades is here.   We have arrived safely home now.  Surprisingly the Lexus survived the dive, battered but driveable.  With some temporary repairs to her differential she carried us the last leg home where she will likely have to be retired.

Awaiting the harvest…

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The prairies are beautiful at this time of year as they await harvest…

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Blue skies and billowing cotton balls of cloud float overhead…P1120372wheat

Amber waves of grain swell to the horizon…

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Prairie roads stretch lazily on a Sunday’s afternoon…

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Just a couple more weeks of precious heat and the grain will be dried to perfection. In the meantime the scent of sun-warmed hay and grain is heady.

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And I sit with my last-born talking of what’s to come.

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She will be wafted away shortly to the next stage of maturing.

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The harvest is being made ready, and in the meantime it is beautiful.

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–LS

“He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.” II Cor.9:10

All in a Day’s Drive

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We rose early for the trip from the still barren prairies, back to the coast.  The snow is beaten and beginning to recede..P1100273P1100278

It’s a beautiful day for driving…

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This wayside water lies so still we had to stop for  pictures…

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There were few just a few other stops…

 

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and suddenly we were on the coastal side of the range and heading down a soft spring world…Green!!!

Not a sprig of green is yet to be seen on the prairies, but here is another story…

 

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A grand new bridge boasts 8 lanes to ease traffic remarkably and we have reached the coast!

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The blossoms have begun in our absence…

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But alas, tomorrow I fly to the land of igloos (not!) and sled dogs, and the land of the midnight sun…

 

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Till then, must catch some shut-eye!

–LS