#calgaryparks

[toknowbeauty]

🥶 #polarvortex #capturecalgary #shareyourweather It's how cold? 🥶 ______ "Get up. Get a routine. Get outside when you can. Move more. Focus on the day in front of you. (Not the month or year.) Don't live inside hypothetical catastrophes. Focus on what you can control. Even if it is your breathing. Don't beat yourself up for not baking banana bread." — Matt Haig #dailyhiveyyc #calgaryphotographer #calgary #calgaryalberta #calgaryparks #yycparks #snow #snowwalk #winterisbeautiful #winterwalk #winterwalker #winter #sunset #lifebelowzero #explorecalgary #yycsunset #calgarysunset #winterincalgary #igo2AU #covidcoping (at Calgary, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLGD9N6hE6W/?igshid=pbkop4coodoc

[toknowbeauty]

🌿 #foundspring Summer is coming ... ______ “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” ― Anne Frank #calgaryweather #shareyourweather #calgaryparks #yycparks #calgary #calgaryalberta #explorecalgary #springtimeincalgary #springincalgary #naturephotography #naturelovers #trees #explorealberta #outwalking #signsofspring #spring #calgarylife #yycliving (at Calgary, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cboc2CmLc5I/?utm_medium=tumblr

[toknowbeauty]

🤸🏽‍♀️ "Remember to play after every storm." — Mattie Stepanek #happyspring #firstdayofspring #capturecalgary #dailyhiveyyc #calgaryparks #yycparks #explorecalgary #summeriscoming #calgary #calgaryviews #calgaryalberta #springtimeincalgary #shareyourweather #playground (at Hawkstone Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CbYFkI7vqT_/?utm_medium=tumblr

[toknowbeauty]

🚶🏽‍♀️#parkbench #rest #calgaryparks I used to have a blog (before IG existed) where I took photos of park benches. Exclusively. 😁 Needless to say, it wasn't a hit ... but this week, I am revisiting my park bench project with some views from a couple that I came across during my walks this week. My focus this week was "rest" ... which isn't as simple as it sounds. I have a lot of complicated feels around the need to always be "productive" and to keep moving. But also recognize that there are times you need to stop and rest ... to heal, to process, to prepare, to reflect, to just BE without the bustle and the pressure ... just for a moment. Park benches are perfect for this ... The inscription on the #LostJacket bench reads: "In loving memory Lost jacket January 2021 — March 1st 2021. I know it's hard, life isn't easy these days. You need to understand that walking the earth was hard and it's better to fly. Look up and remember." 😅 ______ "Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest." — Mark Buchanan (at Calgary, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUydkdfJEJ3/?utm_medium=tumblr

[toknowbeauty]

🌈 #rainbow #afterthestorm I needed this! The promise of magic hidden in the light that is everywhere. This is the field I walk by often. I have always loved it's lonely, desolate feel. But it is changing. They are building new tennis courts and other amenities. A good change for the community. Construction has been going on all summer and my heart laments the transformation slowly taking form. The rainbow is a reminder to trust in the magic of the surprise that is always waiting for us after the tears have fallen. Some of my favourite neighborhood walk photos have been taken in this place and I have no doubt there there will be more [tennis 🎾 themed? 🤷🏾‍♀️] photos to come! Life twists and turns in unexpected ways. Trust in the magic of rainbows and follow the light wherever it takes you. Onward ... __________ ""Finding yourself" is not really how it works. You aren't a ten-dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people's opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. "Finding yourself" is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you." — Emily McDowell #dailyhiveyyc #yycparks #calgaryparks #calgarypride #yycpride #explorecalgary #rainbowphotography #sky #prairiesky #clouds #abstorm #calgary #calgaryalberta #explorecalgary #explorecalgaryparks (at Calgary, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTVT7xWh7FC/?utm_medium=tumblr

[repyyc]

Calgary is full of beautiful parks and pathways, and you’d be hard pressed to find a seasoned Calgarian who isn’t aware of the top five favourites: Fish Creek, Nose Hill, Glenmoreparks in calgary Reservoir, Confederation, and Bowness. But with a city as vast as Calgary—and over 10,000 hectares of parkland and natural areas—it’s easy to miss all the hidden gems nestled between our urban and suburban communities. If parks and pathways are an important aspect of your home-buying decision, you absolutely need to keep reading! Partnering with Kelsey Woods of @parksofcalgary, (photo credit to Kelsey Woods as well!) we’re sharing her favourite hidden gem parks in each quadrant, so you can explore more of where you live (or hope to live one day). Read the full blog at: https://www.repcalgaryhomes.ca/blog/calgary-parks-best-kept-secrets.html #repyyc #yyc #yycliving #cityofcalgary #calgaryparks #calgaryparksandrecreation @cityofcalgary @calgaryevents @curiocitycalgary @datenightyyc (at Calgary, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRxsUjUF3_9/?utm_medium=tumblr

[repyyc]

Quiz time! Can you name the community that backs onto this park? Bonus if you can name this park as well (Answer on picture five) #calgary #yyc #yycre #calgaryparks #calgaryalberta #calgarylife (at Calgary, Alberta) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRAIdLfliBt/?utm_medium=tumblr

[clintyn]

Nothing like cooking your lunch over a nice warm fire! #clintynstagram #getlost #YYC #calgaryparks #alberta #fishcreekpark (at Fish Creek Provincial Park Environmental Learning Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL0auNIs8jZ/?igshid=1awyrka30b6b0