“Long days in the sun picking Saskatoon berries!” is a quote from a book my daughter loves, and one she repeated over and over again on our afternoon at Prairie Berry Farm. She loved zipping between the rows, pausing at one tree to pick it clean before deciding she suddenly
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It feels like something from a movie scene. A place that’s a little bit other-worldly, a little bit new age, a little bit vintage – and entirely breathtaking. The Aga Khan Garden at the University of Alberta Botanic Garden is a showstopper. Just beyond the Garden’s main gate, is the
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A girlfriend and I were discussing our love/hate relationship with spray parks. Truth be told, there’s very little “hate”: We love them, our kids love them (for the most part – more on that later) and they’re a great way to burn some energy on a hot summer day. But…
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“Mommy, there’s a park over there!” “No, honey, that’s just a construction zone. I think you’re seeing some of the construction workers’ equipment.” For weeks, we went through this every time our travels took us past a newly-developed area in Sherwood Park… until one day I took a closer look
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We have nicknames for just about every park. There’s “Colour Park”, “Really Big Park”, “Alphabet Climbing Wall Park” and “Mouse Cheese Park”, just to name a few. There are very few parks we call by their real names. Bonnie Doon Playground is one of the exceptions to our rule. When
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I’ve been hearing it a lot over the past few months. Sometimes from friends, or family members, or even people at the gym (who tend to whisper it, in an attempt to hide the fact they might ever stray from a perfectly healthy diet!). They always say the same thing,
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We visit a lot of parks. A LOT. We plan a park visit into nearly every outing, cramming a little play time in whenever we can. My kids have simple tastes when it comes to parks – as long as they have a teeter-totter or a merry-go-round, they are instantly
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We are park junkies. It doesn’t matter where we go, or what we are doing, we almost always factor playgrounds into our outings. And they all have nicknames. Mouse Cheese Park. Beehive Park. Colour Park. The Really Big Park. Not the most clever names, to be sure, but my girls
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The pillowcases full of Halloween candy have been carefully sorted through by mom and catalogued, compared among siblings and inventoried like the treasure it is. But now comes the hard part. What do you do with it all? We have compiled ten of the most popular ideas for dealing with
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  Saskatchewan may be the Land of Living Skies, but Alberta is no slouch when it comes to expanses of Prairie skies! The wild blue yonder is a thing to behold at any time of day, but once the stars come out is when the sky really shines! (I’m sorry,
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