Lake Louise!

This is it! Lake Louise - an image you see on lots of things - calendars, postcards, Canada tourism publicity and now soon to be my screensaver. No picture does it justice. The day was cloudy, the trees dark, dark green, the lake still, the water almost black and the reflection magnificent.

As we were sitting by the lake, Ms Katie commented that the first time she visited the lake was 63 years ago on her and Al's honeymoon. Ms Katie and Al took the train from Winnipeg to Vancouver and one of the stops was Lake Louise.

A couple years later Ms Katie, Al and Terri made the trip driving a small car - a Morris Minor; slowing climbing up the hills and racing back down! Al liked going down too! More years later we drove as a family in a motor home, stopping in campgrounds nestled in the trees with bubbling brooks lulling us to sleep. And even more years later I made the trip with my own family.

As we laughed and enjoyed the memories that go along with those past trips, we acknowledge this is Ms Katie's last visit to the lake.

It is beautiful.
Sitting, looking at the lake, whether in pictures or in person, will never get old!