Autumn in Calgary

Autumn has come to Calgary.

The trees have all begun to turn, at once, as though they too were giddily awaiting Labour Day to sport their Autumn fashions. They’re glowing delicious golds and reds and purples in the sunshine, and a few overly-eager ones have already spilled and sighed their dressings to the ground. The weather is hot, not like most Septembers, (keep your fingers crossed for N&S’s wedding!) and the air is rusty with smoke from forest fires somewhere. It smells wonderful and earthy, like October in Victoria. I loved the smoky air, the vivid orange pumpkin fields, the glowing banners of newly-flooded cranberry bogs, and the burgundy maple trees in Butchart Gardens and in front of the Empress Hotel. Autumn in Victoria is the most wonderful thing to see… too bad I’m in Calgary ;)

I went for a walk at lunch today and discovered a veritable treasure-trove of Mediterranean delights called “Kalamata Grocery.” Oh, the joy of it!!! Skinny little isles between shelves packed near-exploding with packages of delicious looking things with little-to-no English on the labels. Beautiful, amazing bottles of Pomegranate syrup, jars of Vanilla Preserve and bags plump with tiny pasta stars. A hundred kinds of olives in bins and jars, Feta, and stacks of sweets from marzipan to beautiful mystery boxes, all written in Greek. *sigh* I could have looked around for hours, but I limited myself to a bag of fresh Pitas, a bottle of Rose water and a tray of Anise cookies. Mmmmm, heaven.

That’s all for now! More soon…
~g~