Highwood Pass

First, just let me say thank you so much for all the sympathy and good wishes from everybody.  I did feel a bit sorry for myself for the first few days... so it was great to know somebody cared.  Even my old golfing buddy (who is 91), remembered the surgery date and called to see how I was doing.  That was sweet of him.
I don't know if it is just me and how my body reacts, but, yesterday was the first day that almost everything didn't seem to hurt or ache.  Not just the arm.... that was okay after the first night.  There was really not much pain in the site of the surgery...but, it seemed like it even hurt my feet to walk.  I've been up and about of course, and even doing my outside walking...going my two kilometres......  but not really feeling myself.  Silly.  But... there you have it.  Hope I never have to have a big surgery.... although, no surgery seems a small thing when it is your own body does it?

Anyway... feel much more like my old self today... yaaaayy!!... don't see the surgeon til next week and wish it was today so we could check out the incision, remove sutures or whatever.  I still can't see anything...the steri strips are still firmly in place.  I don't even know if there are external sutures.
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Two weeks ago we drove over the Pass... before the winter gates close.   It is not open all year round.... they close it from December til mid June... probably as much because it would be very expensive to keep safe in snowy weather as it is for the animals.  But, this is the main reason.  Click to biggify and you can read it....

That's the road....waaaay down there..... in the middle of Kananaskis country, Alberta.... Peter Lougheed provincial park.  I got the pics from Wik

Now...for some of our own photos..

It was a beautiful blue sky day.... why I love living here.  Usually we have more of them than we have had the past few weeks...but, fall weather has returned after some rainy days and it is beeyoootiful.  Actually...it is the best time of year for golf...except for the wrist thingy....

What a day for a drive!

There were more motorcycles than cars out today... too bad the clutch is my left hand..... or we could have taken the bike. The past few days have been perfect motorcycling weather too.  Lots of bicycle riders and motorcycling on this particular stretch of highway.... and in the early spring...with the road still closed to four wheel traffic....the bicycle nuts just love freewheeling down the highway in big numbers...and belonging to all sorts of different types of bicycle clubs.  Okay, well, it is definitely not all downhill... (the summit is 7239 feet!) so there is a lot of pedalling and hill climbing...but, it must be something to see.

It didn't matter which way I looked there was beauty ... it felt like my head was on a swivel!

Couldn't stop for every view... and it did take hours...so ...there are some shots that have guard rails ... darn it.  Some that I wish we had stopped for...... hmmm... this one would be so perfect without that rail ... maybe next year.

ah.... that's better.... sort of.... closer though and not so much of a vista.... oh, well....

stopped at a pull-out where there was a hiking trail and lots of folks had driven to that point to then hike for several kilometres on a pretty cool and muddy trail.  There was some snow right down to the parking area ..

see? ... remnants of snow from the week prior....

Heading down the other side....

Hey... look Toto....we're still in Alberta...

 ... a nearby small town ....

.... and finally.... right close to home...a nearby street.....

thanks for coming along for the ride!  What a great day... and today is just as beautiful...all sunny and blue... but,....the leaves... well.... the wind has blown them off now...and they have become like cereal...all crispy and crunchy to kick through on my walks.......