It was a very nice smelling plant,
In Canada perhaps it could also be to get out and smell the spruce.
Managed to get out for two hikes last couple weeks, and it was nice as always to smell some of the sweet smells of the aromatic plants of the foothills and eastern slopes mountains.
I had maybe the best Lake Louise ski season in a while this year. The first few days going alone I was a bit nervous, but as the season went on and I returned for I think 4 or 5 weekend trips to ski and stay overnight at the hostel, The nervousness was slipping away. Of course it will always come back, probably, but at least I know a bit how the cycles go.
On the hill the amazing views, the feeling of flying through the air, flying over cliffs, flying over cornices, soaring over the beautiful white snow through the blue sky, climbing up mountains, standing on precipitous peaks, smiling and having fun, the birds chirping in the clean and fresh spring sky, laughing with me smiling with me, meeting sometimes people on the chairlift, having fun in the terrain park, trying some easy rails again flying off jumps soaring through the sky, even sharing a few runs with friends and family.
On my last run of the year when the chairs were all closed I stopped in the terrain park at a small S rail, and joined some other snowboarders who were hiking it up and down. Mt. Temple soaring up in the background, trying to ski and look up at the views at the same time, gloves off jacket off, skiing in a red t-shirt, staff and riders coming down on their last runs of the year. Two little butterflies floating by. Maybe a message from Dad and Aunty Alice...
"Then Adam received words from his Lord, for He Relented towards him, He is the Relenting and the Merciful"
فَتَلَقَّىٰٓ ءَادَمُ مِن رَّبِّهِۦ كَلِمَـٰتٍۢ فَتَابَ عَلَيْهِ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلتَّوَّابُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ
The photo is from two weeks before, close to where the base of the old Summit Platter used to be.
