Sleepless in Calgary
I hardly slept at all last night. I’ve been awake since 02:00, and at about 03:30, I decided to drive into Calgary to do some night photography.
I took the quiet way into the city rather than the freeway – didn’t see a single car for about 20 minutes, until I was well into Calgary.
I really like Olympic Plaza, and it offered lots of photo subjects.
Each of those tall pipes has either a date range (ie “1950-1959”) or a city park name on it. At the top is part of “Citius, Altius, Fortius” (Latin for “Faster, Higher, Stronger”), the Olympic motto.
Originally named the Husky Tower when it opened in 1968, the Calgary Tower is 191 meters tall (626 feet).
I invited myself for morning tea with Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards at the “Women are Persons!” Monument (a.k.a the Famous Five Monument).
The Dominion Bank building dates to 1911, and is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places (CRHP). Dominion joined with the Bank of Toronto to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank in 1955.
Trains run regularly all night through downtown.
The lights of downtown reflected in the waters of the Bow River, source of much of the city’s piped water. This was shot at 05:16.
St. Vladimir’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church is an impressive structure.
This looked like a good spot for a portrait of Ruby as a city girl 🙂
Downtown from the lovely park called Prince’s Island.
The first rays of sunrise start to light up the towers at 05:50.
Still killing time, I drove to the car dealership that I bought my car from, and put it back in the lineup where I first saw it. Yes, I am easy to amuse, but we don’t have car lots like that in the Yukon!
I then went for a good breakfast, and now am ready to get the family day underway 🙂
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