by pattihenderson | Feb 15, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
One of my favourite Van Morrison songs goes as follows: “Hark now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly…into the Mystic.” Today I am about to take my first official ferry ride for my new job. Yes, I have...
by pattihenderson | Feb 8, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
One of my favourite authors, Paulo Coelho, wrote “Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples in a soaking joy.” A romantic, and truly lovely view of rain (and of course, love). I cannot think of a more beautiful, magical sentence, can you? I...
by pattihenderson | Jan 18, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
I cannot believe this is my last official post as an Albertan! That year went by SO fast!! On this snowy morning in Cochrane, I am looking back on a short, intense yet wonderful year of work and play in Canada’s Heartland, and I could not think of a better...
by pattihenderson | Jan 1, 2015 | Weekend Adventures
Happy New Year dear readers! The past few days I have been working on a project long promised, and last night, on New Year’s Eve, I raised my head up from my computer long enough to be awestruck by the spectacular sunset taking place just outside my apartment...
by pattihenderson | Dec 21, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
There are times that being a farmer’s daughter comes in handy. Having an internal 5:30 am alarm clock is one of the perks, especially if you want to take photos at “The Golden Hour” just as the sun rises. As many of you know, I have taken a plethora...
by pattihenderson | Dec 14, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
Have you ever had a week when the world just wasn’t spinning in your direction? I must admit to having such a week and as I prep my camera and Jeep for a head-cleansing drive south down my favourite Cowboy Trail, I am looking for some solace on the open road. I...
by pattihenderson | Dec 7, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
No, this is not a story about the wonderful children’s book by Maurice Sendak (but wouldn’t that be awesome?). It IS a short story about one of my most favourite things I have been lucky to experience while living here in Alberta. Whenever I get a chance...
by pattihenderson | Nov 29, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
In Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert writes: “In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity...
by pattihenderson | Nov 23, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
Margaret Atwood writes “What breaks at daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out the light?” This past week I was the lucky one to witness daybreak, that cracking of the egg, at wonderful, magical...
by pattihenderson | Nov 16, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
Irish author Josephine Hart writes “There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.” Yesterday, as I drove down a now familiar stretch of road between Bragg Creek and Black Diamond, Alberta, I found myself...
Hi, I’m Patti, wonderer, wanderer and photographer. During the week I’m a marketer in the publishing industry and on weekends I take to the road to explore this beautiful planet we live on.