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"Bread basket" - Today's ride with Charl along the wheat fields nestled up to the foothills, certainly about ready for harvesting and looks great - now if only those dark clouds along the west mountains hold off for a few more days . . .

magpies? David - I have been waiting for one of your posts to share some Australian hair raising details of something different ie. kangaroos, creepy-crawlies of various sizes, mind you magpies are the most annoying and persistent at building nests on our property - biking I have had a couple...

certainly not a window has survived but I noticed a variety of birds appreciate their new nesting digs

Speaking of quiet roads, today's ride took me to an almost ghostly area - suddenly about 17 miles into my early morning ride (that started at 14 degrees C and ended 3 hours later at 35 degrees C) in the middle of miles and miles of wheat fields I arrived at the abandoned WW II RCAF Areodome. 6...

Finally got my Turbo back from bike hospital, new internal wiring, not an exciting story like Stefan throwing his bike across a fiery stream, damage occurred on the bike rack on back of holiday trailer as we went through a severe thunderstorm, so happy to get bike back went for an evening ride...

today was my 9 year old grand-daughter's first ride on her first mtn bike, she was determined to recycle and save money for a few months and with grandpa matching her earnings she was so ready to go biking, she smiled from start to finish including a nasty fall on a steep pitch, o.k. I'm a...

a rare calm day on a small mountain lake in the Crowsnest Pass (south border of Alberta and British Columbia in Canada)

no privacy for your riding buddy in the background watering the grass, ah, our senior gotta go when you gotta go, too funny

hi Randall - actually we are southeast of Nanton (beside Twin Valley Reservoir) - the rocking horses would be going south of Nanton on Highway 2 about 17km turn east on 529 for another 20km past twin valley campground and up and around the corner staying on 529, the old barn in background is...

I have seen ball caps attached to fence posts sometimes accumulating a quarter of section of posts but this was a first - at least 40 rocking horses attached to successive posts, must be a story there somewhere, today I had the old giant trance regular mtn bike out for its first ride since...

Well Steve, my pictures are also from an old Samsung and the camera discussions are another language to me but I enjoy the quality of pictures shared and maybe a project for me down the line. We just got back from Saskatchewan visiting our grandchildren on both my son's and daughter's ranches...

As Rab H would say a perfect day for biking, followed Scissors Creek to the Qu'appelle Valley and even a couple of spots that I used the "walk" function on the bike, maybe a younger version of me would have tried to keep the front end down while headed straight up in Turbo

Well Stefan you can ride a bike and cowboy as my grandson is looking for a critter to rope -

That's a specialized levo comp (19) so I have to plan the trips Charl comes on with her giant Liv Amiti carefully the trail is on my daughter's ranch that backs on to a portion of the Qu'appelle Valley in Saskatchewan, today's ride was a good test for the Levo as I pedalled along a challenging...

Enjoying our 40th anniversary with a relaxing ride along a country road that we had to ourselves

our quiet trail into the backcountry became just the opposite today with many families out enjoying "Father's Day" -

We rode around Pine Coulee lake on a beautiful warm day with a light breeze, passed by part of the Old MacLeod trail named after Colonel MacLeod leader of the Northwest Mounted Police during the 1870's as they pushed a trail to Fort Calgary from Fort MacLeod - the Old MacLeod trail was a supply...

We were not so far apart today, my ride took me 30 km along the "Little Bow" south of you, fantastic day for a ride with little wind and moderate temps

Today we went to town (Nanton, Alberta) to pedal with our grand-daughter - this small town (pop 1800) houses a Lancaster bomber that still fires up on special occasions among other smaller fighter planes of a bygone era; many local farmers and retired folks have put in countless volunteer hours...

Today's ride for us followed parts of the Willow Creek basin in the foothills of Southern Alberta - lots of historic ranches in the area - today's water flow was high and dirty with the outlying mountains finally losing their winter layer - come fall the creek will be much calmer and easier to...