You have probably walked, biked, and possibly even parked beside this 137 year old wooden shack on numerous occasions, taking little notice of its dilapidated exterior, hidden under mature trees and various shrubs, withering away with each passing day. Designated… Read More ›

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Slaughter houses, sawmills, and the Sundance Kid…..
9th Avenue SE, formally known as Atlantic Avenue and Whiskey Row, has been around since the early 1880’s; with the creation of this historic avenue came numerous industries, such as slaughter houses, sawmills, notorious hotels, saloons, and of course the… Read More ›
I love Calgary’s history, but…
Oh…I told myself I won’t do this; actually, I promised myself that I wouldn’t do this; yet, here I find myself doing the very thing I sore I wouldn’t do – complain, there I said it. I mean, I am… Read More ›
Stopping at the Ant Highway in Southern Alberta…featured in Reader’sDigest.ca
Personally, I didn’t even know we had a designated Ant Highway in Southern Alberta, but the little wooden sign pointed the way… Our initial goal was to visit Reptile World located in Drumheller, Alberta, approximately an hour and a half… Read More ›
Weekly Photo Challenge – Home
In May of 1929, Al Capone was arrested on a concealed weapon charge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His sentence required him to stay in the Eastern State Penitentiary for one year. During that time he made his surroundings rather comfortable compared… Read More ›
“Fra-gee-lay, that must be Italian”…
Ah yes, the “indescribably beautiful” leg lamp, the “statue” of art movement hilarity, but as tacky as it may seem this legendary leg lamp has made us laugh since its debut in “The Christmas Story” back in 1983. If you… Read More ›
Weekly Photo Challenge – Unique
“The Big Rock” is the world’s largest known glacial erratic–rock transported far from its place of origin by glacial ice. Big Rock, also known as the Okotoks Erratic, is the largest rock in the Foothills Erratics Train, a group of rocks… Read More ›
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