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August 7th 2012
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Cypress Hills Provincial Park rises up out of the prairie. It is the highest point in Canada between Labrador and the Rocky Mountains. During the last ice age, this land was one of the few areas not covered by glaciers. Today there are species of plants that are found only in this area. We drove to a high cliff and watched a storm roll across the prairies. As a child, I remember our whole family watching summer storms especially at our cabin at Buffalo Lake -- the booming thunder, incredible lightening strikes and driving rain. I love the movies, but my memories of nature’s shows are seared into my mind.
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Michele & David Buhler
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Other than one year when I was seven, I have lived in Alberta all my life. The prairie landscape is my home and, the mountains, my cathedral. The prairies with their vast open spaces and clear skies declare the world is full of boundless opportunities and freedom. The mountains ground my soul and speak to my smallness, my brief existence. In a world that pushes us to be more, get more, do more -- the mountains are there to remind us of our reality. We are all part of this earth and we shall all pass from this life and return to the earth. Not even the mountains will avoid this fate. So, while ... full info
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