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Canadian Prairie In Between Seasons
Canadian Prairie In-Between Season
Capricious wind patterns have winter on our necks and spring in our face.
After all vernal equinox is long past, garden centers are brimming with colour, yet monochrome brown tones rule. It is the prairie brown season – new buds struggle to emerge in the face of what they instinctively know as winter. Stubborn, they remain dormant and safe, waiting out the extended winter season with garden centres, cyclists and garage sale enthusiasts. Spring break in most parts accompanies frivolous ideas of emergence from the dark days under cover, snappy skirts and slinky tees, remain in the closet while spring storms gnaw at our extremities; cold fingertips and noses are a reminder “not so fast” summer thoughts. The back and forth reassures spring is coming but it tests our patience.
For more on the In Between Season, which currently shows no sign of giving up the ghost of winter at Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park or anywhere else in western Canada, see:
http://heathersimondsphotography.com/2013/03/22/glenbow-ranch-provincial-park-between-seasons/
Canadian Prairie Spring Sunset
Frost Hangs On Spring Foliage
Dog Muses Over Canadian Spring Weather
Canadian Spring Sunset
Canadian Prairie Pothole Spring
Posted in Nature, Places
Also tagged Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Canadian, Canadian Spring Sunset, Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park, landscape photography, monochrome, nature photography, outdoor photography, park, prairie, spring, summer, travel photography, winter
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Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park – In Between Seasons
Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park – In Between Seasons
There is no doubt about it, we are in the midst of in – between times.
You can feel it in the changeable air. One day the weather teases with a sapphire blue sky and popcorn fluffy clouds but the thermometer is stuck in the “belows”. No sooner have you located last years spring jacket, the one that isn’t down filled, when it abruptly turns with a tempest opener the next day. Warm westerlies breeze across the prairies leaving patchy snow exposing scroungy vegetation. If you squint your eyes you may find a pleasing variation to this non committal, mainly monochromatic landscape, stuck between winter and spring, gasping for the change it wants from Mother Nature but forced to wait out the in between times. While you remain patient for a time you can bask in the temperate again, play with ways to look at the same place, it is always changing, you just don’t always take the time to look carefully.
For more on living through the In Between Season see also:
After The Chinook At Glenbow Ranch
Glenbow Farm Landscape
Abandoned Outbuildings With New Snow At Glenbow
Glenbow Slopes
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Also tagged Alberta, blue, Calgary, Canadian, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Glenbow Ranch Provincial Park, landscape photography, monochrome, Mother Nature, nature photography, park, prairie, spring, winter
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