Re-cycling

This summer I rediscovered my bicycle and my love of riding. Scenes like this are why. It's eight o'clock on a Monday morning and the rest of the world is still busy commuting as I arrive at the lake, ll Km from where I parked the car. {See map at http://www.maps.worldweb.com/VisitorMap.html?lti=1&lli=240623}

I would like to thank the Municipal District of Rockyview for maintaining the canal pathway and to the Western Irrigation people who built the canal in 1906. A lot has changed in the area since then but as you can see in the photo above, some of the original homesteads are still around.

After going around the south end of the lake I continued my ride down the gravel trail beside the canal. About 7 Km east of the lake the trail ends at a country road where I came across the Clayton Family Farm, homesteaded in 1901 just five years before the canal was built. I wonder how they feel about the ever expanding suburbia lurking just over the horizon. I know I always feel a certain sadness when I have to go back.