by pattihenderson | Nov 9, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
As I sit in my cozy little apartment in Cochrane, watching the fluffy blanket of snow gradually thicken outside, I can’t help but think warm thoughts of my day of adventure yesterday at The Banff Mountain Festival. This day has long been in my calendar as...
by pattihenderson | Nov 1, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
On the way home last weekend from a Vagabond Photography adventure to Writing on Stone Provincial Park, I found this recently harvested wheat field dwarfed by an enormous, blue, staggeringly beautiful Alberta sky. I was amazed. And profoundly moved, as happens on many...
by pattihenderson | Oct 26, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
In a week where terrorism visited Canadian soil, forcing Canadians to question their safety perhaps for the first time, Martin Luther’s quote stands out as a challenge to all of us: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot...
by pattihenderson | Oct 19, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
Author George R.R. Martin’s full quote goes as follows: “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies…The man who never reads lives only one.” The past two days I was fortunate to find myself working at the Special Education Conference held...
by pattihenderson | Oct 12, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
“For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, and love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Happy Thanksgiving dear readers! As I stared out in awe at the breathtaking...
by pattihenderson | Oct 5, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
Today I have some good news to share! As many of you who follow my weekly Vagabond Adventures know, I have been enjoying a one year contract in stunning Alberta with my company, Pearson Canada. This week I learned that I will be moving to equally stunning British...
by pattihenderson | Sep 28, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
Ansel Adams has long been one of my favourite photographers. I love the simplicity mixed with awe in each spell-binding, stark, black and white still. What I appreciate even more is his ability to eloquently put into words his philosophy behind his work. Let me share...
by pattihenderson | Sep 21, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
Susan Sontag’s wonderful quote was on my mind yesterday as I headed out the door for another Vagabond Photography Adventure. As the days grow shorter and colder, I find myself referring back to my “Alberta Bucket List” of things to see and do before...
by pattihenderson | Sep 14, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
Last Sunday afternoon I had this ominous mantra from The Game of Thrones in my head as I took the roof off my Jeep and hit the road on a warm, 26 degree, sunny day. I had just checked the weather forecast for the week ahead and was dismayed to hear that it could be a...
by pattihenderson | Sep 7, 2014 | Weekend Adventures
So…it snowed in Alberta this week. Happy first week of September! Twelve centimetres of the fluffy white stuff fell in the south and this event prompted me to explore a route I had been putting off for “a nice fall trip.” I have long wondered what...
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.