Winter / Spring 2025

It's almost summer and I realize I never really wrote anything down for the past winter and spring. We managed two big trips, Arizona and Costa Rica, which I already covered here and here. I forgot however to keep this blog/journal up to date on the day to day life. Not that exciting I know but I need to remind myself while the blog is outward facing in reality its more just a personal journal to remind myself the when's and where's of what I've been up to. So what have we been up to?

Tooting in the new year

Birthday's!

Seems so far off but the new year brings new birthdy's to celebrate! For Eva's b-day we went to Baker Creek Lodge to xc ski aournd the Lake Louise area.

We were treated with some fantastic early season snow.

Snow at 'the lake'

Eva taking a selfie

How selfies are taken...

Brian thinking he's fast but really goes quite slow up the hill

Fresh snow!

Eva mid ski

and enjoying a post ski read!

Next it was time to travel to Emerald Lake Lodge for Brian's birthday

Morning view

Eva enjoying some more snow...

While Brian takes a photo...

...said photo.

Frosty!

Brian makes a fire

Happy birthday couple!

It's a moose!

With all the skiing it's time for a post ski sauna!!!

Somewhere or is it somewhen??? Brian finds time to travel to Boston to celebrate his mother's 80th b-day!

No snow = no ski!

With such great early season promise, the winter of 2025 will not exactly go down as a winter that brought in the snow. After some early season adventures who thought we would be done?!

Winter?

With the lack of snow Brian took the opportunity to finally import the Van. What an adventure that turned out to be...

Officially Canadian!

Random:

Hot tubing

Pizza making

and early season Ghost climbing

Spring

Spring flowers

Spring marks the end of the teaching year for Eva - it's also the time of year she travel back home to Germany, where she

visits with her father

see old friends

and climb in the Elbsandstein

Meanwhile back in Canada....

Brian chills in the garden

eats ice cream

and goes climbing

some cracks in Castlegar

slabs outside Slocan

mainly just enjoying some sun!

It's also a good time of year to see a Teddy!

Astrophotography

Through out all of this Brian continues to enjoy taking photos of the night sky

Brian with his telescope

lunar eclipse

Crescent moon

Lunar occultation of Mars, Mars briefly passes behing moon

Whirlpool Galaxy

Rosette Nebula

Milky Way over Rundle

Milky Way over Vermillion Lakes

Brian, bored, creates his own light show....

All while Ted enjoys the best campsite in the worst campground in Banff

Time to roll into summer!

Till next winter!