The prairie's big yellow finale is on. Goldenrod is peaking in ditches, field edges, and every unmowed corner of the city. And no, it isn't what's making you sneeze: its pollen is heavy and insect-carried, not wind-blown. Stand near a patch for one minute and count the traffic. Bees, hover flies, soldier beetles, late butterflies, all fueling up as summer winds down.
For a few weeks each fall the high slopes turn yellow and then gold, and the trees doing it are...
August is the best bat-watching month of the year in Calgary: this summer's pups are flying...
For a couple of hours the moon will pass behind the Earth, and you can watch it happen in real...
Watch the sky in the last light of the afternoon and you may notice magpies all flying the same...
Late August is when the mushroom year gets interesting, and the trigger is rain. A good soak...
The year's most dependable meteor shower peaked last week, but it doesn't switch off overnight...