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Friday
June 5, 2015
This morning I had to pack some gear and catch a couple of buses to get across Calgary to Forest Lawn for the funeral of my sister Leonie's mother-in-law Doris Lyttle.
All her children except one were in attendance at the lovely Holy Trinity church and family friend Father Jack Bastigal officiated. Leonie's husband Brian did a reading and the thank-you's, while their son Kieran also did a reading. Many lovely tributes were made to the amazing woman that was Doris Lyttle, who always had a smile in the face of all adversities and always had great food on the stove.
There was a nice lunch in the church hall where I think I have convinced father Jack to visit Ecuador.... This was followed by a short graveside service where Doris was buried in the same grave as her husband Joe who had passed away many years before.
Then most of the family gathered at her son Joe's large acreage near Springbank and everybody enjoyed good drink, good food, and good company.
I am spending a couple of days at Leonie's, in the country, between High River and Longview. A mile from their home we had to brake hard because we had bookends of deer on both sides of the road. Finally they both got on one side and we were able to proceed.
Then 1/2 mile from home there was a horse family with a new chestnut foal that was begging to have his photo taken.
The night wasn't over with surprises because we had a serenade from 4 coyotes that was incredibly loud and caused a neighbour's herd of cattle to move away quite rapidly. Then the 4 coyote's showed themselves and ran up the back 40. As I was trying to catch a shot of two of them, I accidentally also caught a small hawk on a fencepost.... Gosh, I miss this country!!!
I hope you enjoy the photos. That was the day's excitement, Cheers, Al
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| Waiting for the #2 bus on 17th Avenue |
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| Waiting for the #1 bus downtown on 7th Avenue |
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| Taken through the bus window |
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| The Calgary Tower |
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| Funeral for Doris Lyttle today |
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| Joe and Doris Lyttle |
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| What a lovely setting |
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| Love the gorgeous array of Holy Trinity |
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| Another angle |
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| Father Jack & Kieran Lyttle |
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| Mostly the Lyttle family |
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| Jeff , Erin, Emma & Amy |
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| Baby Elliott |
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| A great photo of Mrs Lyttle as I remember her |
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| The service is about to begin |
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| Brian doing a reading |
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| Kieran doing a reading |
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| Father Jack doing the homily |
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| This gal Claudia had a terrific voice |
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| After the service |
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| The lunch after the service |
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| A nice view of the Rockies behind Calgary |
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| Part of the skyline of downtown Calgary taken from a moving car |
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| The final resting place. |
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| A white Cadillac hearse is a nice change from dreary black |
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| Pallbearers doing their job |
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| Getting flowers for the family to use |
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| Putting flowers on the coffin |
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| Doing the final descent |
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| Jeff, Nicole and girls |
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| Pallbearers posing |
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| Lovely mountain view on the Trans-Canada highway |
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| Joe's acreage does have a mountain view |
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| Nicole relaxing |
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| The kids ran themselves ragged |
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| Oops, missed the ball... |
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| Helping the kids color in the coloring book |
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| Keeping track of the athletes and activities |
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| One of the deer that got off the road |
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| Then he gave me a close-up |
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| Mare with chestnut foal, so cute |
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| Rockies view from Leonie's |
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| I love this kind of shot. |
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| Two coyotes and a small hawk in one shot! |
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| Coyote on the prowl... |
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| Another of my favourite scenes here. |
