After last Tuesday’s +19C in Calgary, the weather went back to being very wintery. Overcast and cold and by today -11 and 6cm of snow. Nevertheless we believe that spring will not be long now and Easter Sunday we planted some seeds as a start of our herb garden. We had been to Canadian Tire […]
Category Archives: Nature and trips
Weather phenomenon, trips, etc.
We only have Friday off here in Canada, so we had rented a car already Thursday evening to be able to go to the mountains early on Friday. We put on the ski kit and packed the bags and went straight to the Nordic Centre of Canmore. http://www.albertaparks.ca/canmore-nordic-centre.aspx The weather was fantastic – sunshine and +8 […]
The weather is still cold most of the days, but the snow is almost gone and the river is halfway ice free. It is the first time I saw the Bow river without ice covering it and I surprised to find out how shallow it is in the middle. It is very fast – coming […]
We noticed Gary and Gertrud about a month ago when they flew by making a lot of noise. Being new to Calgary we thought that maybe spring is here and the geese are returning from South. After talking to people we found out that the geese and ducks actually stay here throughout winter and brave […]
The weather has been so mild in Calgary for the past 2 weeks that I had started to think that the spring is here to stay. On Friday when it was +13 degrees and fantastic sunshine, I noticed a winter storm warning on the local weather website. It was described as a quite a bad […]
I decided that Canmore – where we went next and where we stayed overnight, deserves a separate blog post on its own. We had heard lots of people recommend Canmore as a nice alternative to Banff, but we did not expect to fall in love with Canmore. It is smaller than Banff and has this small […]
We rented a car on Saturday and went exploring the mountains that we can see from our bedroom window. This past Monday was a Family Day in Alberta, so we had a long weekend and could spend Saturday shopping – yes still lots of stuff missing from the flat and also go on the tour […]
Enjoying a quiet day with my husband at home. Both of us sitting in front of our computers and doing our stuff. Every now and then I get a call to come over and help him – mainly with logging into his Estonian bank account that he thinks is too complicated for non-Estonians. I just […]
After almost 4 weeks here, I’m starting to love the Chinook winds that every week bring the spring over from across the Rocky Mountains. Yesterday was quite dreary and cold (-11) and today sun is shining and it is +3C outside. The air is fresh smelling of melting snow and imminent awakening of nature. I went for […]
Started from Calgary downtown on a Redarrow bus at 8am this morning and have travelled North towards the capital of Alberta. Weather was super ice and sunny, the landscape – like Estonia without trees (that’s what my husband said). Flat country with little houses scattered across vast territories. One major exception was the amount of […]
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