Happy new year!

01 Friday Jan 2021

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It was a quieter evening than usual on Thursday night at Calgary’s Olympic Plaza, typically home to the city’s new year’s eve celebrations. With the public health emergency still ongoing, there was no big party and no official fireworks display to ring in 2021. Seen here are some of the Christmas lights at Olympic Plaza in the foreground, with Calgary’s Historic City Hall in seasonal colours in the background.

Merry Christmas

25 Friday Dec 2020

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Skaters enjoy the view of a giant Christmas tree and the surrounding cityscape at Olympic Plaza in downtown Calgary, earlier this month. Best wishes of the season to all!

Dear Santa

24 Thursday Dec 2020

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Santa Claus gets ready to take a peek at a last-minute Christmas wish before he checks his list twice and heads out on his annual visit. This scene was from a light show outside the Rio hotel in Las Vegas in December 2018.

Ho, ho … oh, oh!

20 Sunday Dec 2020

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Last year, I captured this Christmas display (from behind) in the door of a business in the Downtown Container Park in Las Vegas. Little did I know what kind of “oh, oh” we were all in for in the year to follow.

Frosty and friends

19 Saturday Dec 2020

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From a couple of years ago: Frosty the Snowman (I presume?) hangs out with his pals as part of one of many displays at a winter lights show outside the Rio hotel in Las Vegas.

Scarecrow Santa

18 Friday Dec 2020

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An excellent repurposing of a fall staple! Spotted in Calgary’s Sunnyside neighbourhood.

Party at the back

17 Thursday Dec 2020

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I’ve never wandered down the alley behind the businesses on Kensington Crescent N.W. in Calgary. Their back sides are definitely more colourful than their façades!

Quiet urban lagoon

14 Monday Dec 2020

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The low(ish) morning sun lights up the clouds and the skyscrapers looming over Prince’s Island Park in Calgary, as seen about 10 days ago, when it was feeling a little more like spring than winter.