I hit the jackpot. Not only was there a riot of colour but the sun matched up perfectly with the topography to set it all aglow.
Heading north and east from the city, I could see what looked like a rain cloud on the horizon but I didn’t really think much about it. It was pretty much all alone, a biggish grey blot surrounded by a few other smaller and fluffier clouds. There looked to be a thin curtain of precipitation hanging underneath it but it was hard to say for sure.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
But the cloud was dissipating quickly. Though the rain was still falling, it was slowing down and by the time I’d driven a couple of kilometres, it had stopped. But it left behind a calm coolness in the air and the scent of damp soil and cut grass. I could hear crows and blackbirds and even a meadowlark over the hum of running motors and distant cattle. By a stand of poplars, I could hear water dripping from the leaves.
Wispy clouds wafted across the bright blue sky as I continued east and I could see dust coming up from combines churning through fields of canola. The occasional flock of geese was flying around and families of partridge jumped up and spun away from the roadsides. The number of hawks had diminished considerably, most of them on their way south by now, but there were still a few Swainson’s around.Article contentGeese fly by a stand of poplars east of Irricana, Ab., on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
The poplars and Manitoba maples at an old farmstead I’ve photographed a hundred times weren’t quite as bright but on the other side of the valley where Serviceberry Creek meets the Rosebud, the colours were gorgeous again.Over here where it is more cool and shady there were the bright scarlets and peoples of osier dogwood and the soft yellow-greens of caraganas. Long willow leaves bounced in the light breeze, too, and a pheasant ran across the road to disappear into the thickets.
The only familiar shades were on the wolf willows and buffalo berries. Their leaves retain their silvery colour for as long as they stay on the branches but there was a bonus to that, too. Not only did their soft, shimmering greens add a counterpoint to all the intense colours, the neon reds of the buffalo berries added a completely new dimension.
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