On the Easel

The Rocky Mountains will always have a place in my heart. Growing up, drives through the Alberta and Montana Rockies were a fixture of my childhood; sometimes stressful (driving to Kalispell in the winter comes to mind), but mostly nothing short of awe-inspiring. My brother lives in Kelowna with his family, and he took this photo from his deck overlooking Lake Okanagan. The mountains here aren't technically the Rockies (they're part of the Columbia Mountain System, if we're b

We were a dot in the prairies, within a sea of wheat and cattle as far as the eye could see. Perfectly flat. Everywhere. Except one. The Cypress Hills stood off in the distance as something wholly different.