©Heather Simonds, Glenbow Ranch May Sunset

Glenbow Overcomes The Brown Season

Brown season has no official beginning or end, unlike spring and winter with their accompanying equinoxes heralding the next season with exactitude.

Most people recognize the signs of the end of brown but it is more of a creep than an equinoctial announcement. Lively green overtakes dead brown in the flower garden as folks sneer and grab and pull at pesky grass outstripping the yard one blade at a time. The landscape so carefully domesticated last gardening season succumbs to the fast creep of weeds. Oh how they move when we slumber. At Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park there is not much weed pulling taking place, no taming of the landscape, no training weeds that their emergence is a declaration of war. It is just plain old fashioned “walk in the park” and other equally calming activities as late spring overrides even the brownest of patches in the darkest corners of the more than 1,300 hectares of foothills parkland. Mother Nature wipes her brush with a wide swath and “Eureka!” Brown season becomes mottled into green under the scape of fluffy late spring clouds and soft evening sunsets. Off with the brown coat, on with the green shirt!

There is a lot more going on at the park than walking, you just might be surprised (see  http://www.grpf.ca/programs).

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©Heather Simonds Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park In May

©Heather Simonds Glenbow Ranch After The Brown Season

©Heather Simonds Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park, May Sunset