April Snow in Big Oil Town

So I’m walking along this road the other day …

When out comes this fellow, moseying along …

Turns out there was three of them …

And I’m walking back toward the lodge …

Past the groovy little windmill …

And the outdoor hot tub …

And the big wooden fish …

To the view from my window …

Obviously, I’m being followed …

Here, one leaves their shows at the door …

The Eighth Annual St John the Baptist Pan-Orthodox Men’s Retreat in Caroline, Alberta (near Calgary) …

Where, thanks to these chairs, Retreat Masters have to yell a lot …

Or spike the drinks with caffeine to stave off snoozing …

One guy’s local, the other came up from Texas …

Ukrainians, Romanians, OCA Catechumens, Lebanese, and me …

Calgary Olympic Park …

Riding through downtown Calgary …

To the Sunday evening Pan-Orthodox Lenten Vespers at St Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Church …

Repent, the Kingdom of God is as hand!

Through the prayers of St John the Forerunner, O Lord be merciful to us and save us!