Southern Alberta

Kneeling over my grey square on the sideway – I drew … a blank. The fresh box of chalk beside my knee was screaming out ideas but I was afraid to start. What if I can’t draw?

Jazz music usually evokes images of smoky nightclubs on big city streets rather than sunny skies and prairie hospitality, but great things often things happen in unlikely places.

When singer-songwriter Linda McRae heard of the Tongue on the Post music festival, she immediately thought of the childhood dare. “I love it.”

Artists create masterpieces that can take days to create, and sometimes within days of completing one, the wind or rain could erase it all. 

The Village of Waterton is still small. Main street takes 20 minutes to stroll because you stopped for 15 minutes to watch a herd of deer go by.

The Drumheller Valley is home to dinosaurs, a prolific coal mining history, art galleries, festivals and the Canadian Badlands Passion Play.

The East Coulee Spring Fest is one of Alberta's best-kept secret festivals.

Summer in the mountains of Southern Alberta can be fickle;  quite often it will take its sweet time, waiting until late July to really get started, and by September dustings of snow can be see