Latest article for Travel Alberta

My latest piece for Travel Alberta is up here. It is all about springtime in Alberta’s Parks! Yes, spring is coming!

Spring?

 

Spring, ever hear of it? It is actually a little season that comes after winter. No? You haven’t? Oh, then you must be from Alberta.

 

I don’t mean to sound like a whiner, but jeesh! What is up with this snow and cold? I have springtime shoes I am dying to get out of storage and a brand new cotton purse I am eager to start toting around. I know winter lasts a long time here, I have lived here pretty much all my life after all, but it is the principle of the thing. I have put in my time. I have shoveled, sanded and chipped. I have layered, bundled and covered. I have scraped, swept and plugged in. I am DONE.

 

I know this is life in Alberta in the “spring.” I know better than to expect springtime weather at this time of year. I know we still have a ways to go before I see green grass. I can’t explain why I am so impatient this year. I just am.

 

And so I may just have to start taking things into my own hands. I may just have to stage my own little protest in my (futile) effort to move things along. Snow and ice be damned, I am putting on my sandals and sporting my new spring tote. I don’t care if I look like a shivering dork, I am a principled woman and sometimes a girl just has to take a stand.