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Seems like we’ve got another Chinook here in Calgary. I went out for a walk, - didn’t want to miss a chance to marvel at my favorite ’spectacle’ the Mother Nature is staging every now and then in our area.

At some times we are lucky enough to see Chinook Arch while in the air..

.. like in this one: we flew an approach to Calgary from the West, and a flight path angle was sort of following the sloped Chinook Arch ceiling, - it was kinda cool to see these ‘grandiose’ cloud structures hanging up there, above your head.

But everybody knows Chinook is also associated with quite a strong wind, for, - by physical nature, - exactly the wind it is - a katabatic wind blowing from the slopes of mountains.

One thing about photographing Chinook: you can catch a terrific still view of cloud forms on your camera, but it is going to be a bit of challenge to convey an idea of motion, a ‘visual idea of wind’, - if you don’t have a camcorder

See, what kind of solution I found for this:

Click on the image!

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It was not very exciting a gray morning today, but anyway,- at some moment of it I looked outside, and thought, ‘Gee, what’s wrong with the calender? Is that all right we’ve got the May 24th today? Or, am I still dreaming?’

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I got up early this morning and elected to take an ‘inspirational walk across’ our neighborhood. For this purpose we’ve got here a terrific net of walk paths. And the weather looked really promising, so there was no reason ‘why not’. And, why not to take a camera, eh:)?

First I stepped into the woods of the Griffith Park

The trail that I chose this morning (from the number of them existing in the area) led me to one of the Elbow River ‘wetland sleeves’ where I stopped by to marvel at Mother Nature, and some of her children basking in the pleasant comfort of the clean environment.

Then I turned toward ‘out of the woods’, crossed the Discovery Ridge Boulevar, and climbed up onto the trail running along the top of a few hills edging the Elbow River valley in our area.

Seems like after the short spell of a dreadful weather that we recently had the spring is back on the full throttle

See, what the cute guys hide in the weeds covering the hill slopes(will check with the reference book for the name of this kind of spring flowers. Its amazing, in my native Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan we had the same kind of flowers blossoming in the spring!)

Hills are also populated by birds. Robins are numerous

I had also a chance to get a nice capture of the different kinds of ‘feathered creatures’

And this one is my favorite:

Check out the blow-up, a registration can be read easily:

C-GWBN, and I tell you, I flew this particular thing on..

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