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St. Patrick's Day in the Artist's Café
St. Patrick's Day in the Artist's Café on Chicago's Michigan Avenue near the Art Institute of Chicago.
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One rock in the Alberta badlands
The landscape just a short walk from the protected hoodoos site along Highway 10 is just as stunning as the better-known site. Here a lone rock sits surrounded by striated hills.
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hoodoo columns, Drumheller, Alberta
Hoodoos are as dramatic closeup -- where their columns reveal textures created over millennia -- as they are seen silhouetted against the sky.
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a lone hoodoo near Drumheller, Alberta
The classic hoodoo -- a weathered column of soft sedimentary rock topped by a much harder, protective stone.
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inside the world's largest truck
The 4-ton wheel of the Titan Terex off Highway 3 in Sparwood, British Columbia, is just right for a 7-year-old.
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The World's Biggest Truck
The Terex Titan, now retired from service and on view in Sparwood, British Columbia, is 235 tonnes when empty, 66 feet long, and -- when the dump box is doing its job -- 56 feet tall.
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picnicking by the Frank Slide
When Turtle Mountain collapsed in 1903, it took with it the railway line and a good portion of the population of Frank, Alberta. Today, over 100 years later, it is the site of an interpretive centre, complete with a small picnic ground.
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the Frank Slide
Visitors to the Frank Slide can stay in the full safety of the interpretive centre above the slide -- or they can venture down along the trails carved through the slide itself, and see up close what 74 million tonnes of rock looks like.
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Buffalo Plains
We drove west across the plains of southwest Saskatchewan and southern Alberta until the mountains began to loom before us. Here, at the edge of the foothills, we climbed up to the cliff of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, where a museum now tells the story of centuries of the Blackfoot bison kill, and I turned to look back east once more. The world stretched on forever there in front of me, much as it must have done for thousands of years, and it took my spirit out with it. We turned back west and kept driving, through the mountain ranges and out to the sea, but nothing else -- not mountain peaks or gorges or the ocean's edge -- was ever quite so grand as this place of forevers.
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The interpretive centre at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
The Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre, gently set into its surroundings by architect Robert LeBlond, carries the viewer up through the history of the site, of the First Peoples who have lived there for millennia, and of local buffalo hunt practices.
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Stephanie Fysh has been a member since 5 January 2008 and goes by StephanieFysh.
Currently in Toronto, Canada.
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I am a Toronto-based editor and photographer with a thing about the erotics of the built world, of our selves, and of the photograph. And I am going to see the whole world before I die.
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