Aging gracefully

It was so weird four days ago, on 15 February 2016! I drove SE of the city, E of High River, in the afternoon, hoping that I would not have another day where I'd come home without taking a single photo. The previous day, 14 February 2016, I had driven all the way NW of the city, hoping that there might be some sight of the Northern Hawk Owl. However, I was out of luck. Thankfully, it rarely happens that I take no photos during a few hours outdoors.

There was one area in particular that I wanted to explore. Many of the roads were backroads that I've never driven and I found it so hard to keep track of which direction I was driving. Easy enough when I was home looking at Google Earth, but a whole different story when I was out there.

One of the roads, that I had driven a couple of times before, took me past an old barn and homestead. I had a CD playing and a minute or two before I reached this barn, the song, 'Superman, where are you now?' started playing. The weird part is that this barn and old homestead were used in the first Superman movie in 1978! Talk about coincidence! This whole area had me totally in a 'Land of confusion', as singer Phil Collins would say in that song.

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I like to stop at this small, wooden church at Dinton and take a few photos. Felt good to have blue sky on this day. I will add a more distant photo of the church itself in a comment box below. This little church is open for services on the first and third Sunday of the month, at 9;00 am.. Nice that it is still being used.

"Although the tiny town of Dinton, AB does not appear on most maps, it now occupies a place in motion picture history. Locations Manager Darryl Solly was asked to find a “small unadorned church” for the del Mar wedding scene in the movie, Brokeback Mountain. The unassuming Anglican chapel at Dinton, built by prairie pioneers in 1906, shown here in these exclusive pre-production photos, was the perfect spot for Alma and Ennis to be married."

The movie stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway and Michelle Williams and depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983.

www.findingbrokeback.com/Albums/StThomasChurch.html

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