A large team of us spent yesterday morning, 7 July 2019, at the house and home of Keith and Sandy Logan. They stay NW of Cochrane on a 35-acre parcel of land. The team break up in half and took turns to look at Keith’s gorgeous photography and outstanding woodwork and also to bio/blitz their land, to document all flora and fauna found. We had been addressed to espresso and delightful cake in Keith’s massive woodworking barn. We all agree – if you sit in one particular of Keith’s wooden chairs, you are going to see that no chair could at any time be more at ease – they are simply just awesome!
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Some persons saw a number of birds, though they had been practically all pretty distant sightings. I imagine the closest were being a pair of Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, feeding youthful that were in a tree cavity. I did control to get a shot of a Rose-breasted Grosbeak, way too.
On a take a look at like this, I am often torn involving on the lookout for birds, wildflowers, or fungi. Yesterday was a combine of all three – the form of day I really like. Basically, we had been surprised that there ended up not several wildflowers to be found. Not confident if this signifies we are a bit late for them. Our climate has been totally crazy considering the fact that New Calendar year, so who is familiar with what is early and what is late. I was content to see the odd fungus here and there in the Aspen forest.
All morning, we were being adopted close to the back garden by the Logan’s two enormous dogs – two attractive, friendly Newfoundland pet dogs, named Sally and Blueberry (?). What beautiful pet dogs these are! I consider foods must be on their intellect all the time. Every time anyone would sit and try to eat their lunch, either a single or both of those dogs would arrive around and stand or sit and seem longingly at what was remaining eaten. This sort of sweet pet dogs.
I like to see their cats, far too. On former visits, there had been three cats, but I you should not know if they only have two now. What a wonderful location they are lucky sufficient to call ‘home’.
Following lunch, we drove a limited length to one more put, URSA, which stands for Universal Rehabilitation Service Agency. Ahead of non-profit URSA attained the location, it made use of to belong to W.O.Mitchell, who applied it as a retreat. We ended up released to Ben, who life in W.O. Mitchell’s attractive outdated cabin. Ben’s passion is developing remarkable steel sculptures and many of his operates are scattered on the land around the cabin.
“William Ormond Mitchell, Computer system OC greater known as W. O. Mitchell (March 13, 1914 – February 25, 1998) was a Canadian writer and broadcaster. His “greatest-cherished” novel is Who Has Noticed the Wind (1947), which portrays lifestyle on the Canadian Prairies and sold virtually a million copies in Canada. As a broadcaster, he is acknowledged for his radio series Jake and the Kid, which aired on CBC Radio concerning 1950 and 1956 and was also about lifetime on the Prairies.
In 1973, Mitchell was built an officer of the Buy of Canada. The checklist of other honours Mitchell has obtained involves honorary doctorates from five Canadian universities and remaining sworn in as a Member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada on November 5, 1992. In 2000, Mitchell was honoured by the federal government of Canada with his image on a postage stamp.” From Wikipedia.
“Nestled in 18 acres of really Albertan streams, trees and wildlife, URSA is a location that welcomes us all. The buildings and land were acquired in 2009 by Universal Rehabilitation Services Company (URSA) with a one function: to develop a retreat space the place all persons, no matter of means, can knowledge the attractiveness of a stress-free and calming retreat space. We rent the URSA Retreat Centre to exterior teams to subsidize operating it for our clientele.”