Home from the last tour long enough to have a nap and do my laundry I headed to Calgary.  Before desperately trying to find a gas station I looked up and saw this.   Gotta love those Alberta skies.

Drivin around with Leah, we stopped when my truck hit 4000 kms since I left home,  and that happened to be some new subdivision and a new strip mall.  so I wandered around and found this grey lil setup of rectangles.

Homeward from Calgary I took some random roads to see what is out there,  and found this.  I honestly have no idea whats goin on here, maybe the start of a airplane musuem or some sort of altar for the old plane god,   but it was neat to stumble across a field of planes that have long since died.

Last week in Victoria, wandering around killing time and looking for random camera bits. I met up with these kids contendly playing the banjo and chillin.

And for something completely different,  I was asked to put some images together for an Italian Restaurant that is opening here.   These are snippets from a parkade in vic,  yes they are different shots not just a different colour.  We'll see if they want em.

The sweet part about the city is deer let you walk up close enough to kick them.  Remembering the last time I tried to kick an animal I figured that kicking a bear was a bad idea so maybe I shouldnt kick the deer either.  Anyways,  this is about as wildlife as I get.   no crop

When my truck fell apart I got to hang out at a this sweet mechanic's place while he was fixing my truck on a sunday afternoon.  So naturally I wander and took some pictures and this triptych floats to the top of the pile

After my truck had its broken leg put back together I went to cumberland and made lil Miho come wandering through wet cow sh$t with me stalking tree's.  this is on a dairy farm in courtenay,  and you shoulda seen the farmers face when I asked if I could go shoot his tree.  halarious.    apparently this one was hit by lightning a few years ago.

Papa Don (some people call him Jesse Savage) and his oldest Keona,  shot some Holga BW shots when we were out too,  hopefully they turn out.

Just to prove I was actually at the coast.

I had to run after this to actually make the ferry,  hmmm,  how I miss the ferry,  maybe I'll move back to a land where you actually need to plan to go anywhere.  maybe not

Took the #7 (I think) from Van to Hope and found this lil gem

I had the opportunity to go for a tour around the province lately, it started here in Fernie and carried me over to Crawford Bay to visit Erica http://www.ericaandersonphotography.com/  and run around and take a few photo's over there.   We went up to a small town, or maybe a village not far from there called Riondel, it was pretty small but a sweet lil town.  Erica brought me down to this old loading thing on Kootenay Lake which makes for a rad place to make some photo's.  I gotta get back there when it's a little warmer out.

After this spot we went lookin for some rad tree's cause well as odd as it is,  thats what I do, and not too far from her house out there we came across this little gem of a blue spruce hanging out by itself.

That night I swung down to Creston Bc to pick up Kat http://www.flickr.com/photos/katttb/ another photographer friend of mine.  We hopped across the border into Idaho to take advantage of the cheap beer and cheap gas and work our way over to the coast.  This is from Creston Washington, its wierd there are two Creston's so close to each other  this one is a quiet little prairie town that you might miss if you blinked driving through it.

I love the States.  where else would have greasy side of the road dinner that wells BAGS of food.  soo good.  We got breaky here from this rad Hawaiian lady,  when we asked her how she ended up over in prairie land she responded without a seconds thought, I met a dumb white boy.  

Kat's lyric book and journal

I think we were on hwy 2 which keeps switchin from flat farmland to crazy rocky canyons.  Really nice drive.

Grand Coulee Dam

The gem of the trip is this abandoned church we stumbled across. No towns nearby, no houses near it,  just this lonely church forgotten along the highway from some past congregation.