Women's Day Walking

Happy almost Spring everyone. Even though the 150 Canadian Women quilt program is completed we are still posting about other women that are pioneers on the facebook group 150 CW Quilt Along. Be sure to join if you haven't already done so. This week, we posted about the Australian jockey, Wilhelmina Smith, alias Bill Smith. She rode as a man for two decades and no one new until after her death.

You can find the article on Australia's first female jockey here.

Today Mother Nature in all her glory gave us a taste of Spring. My hiking group winter walk was around one of Calgary's little gems, Bowness Park and the Bow River. You cannot see very well, but the ice is about 2 ft thick in this area. The river barely iced up last year and is sure making up for it this year. The snow on the cookhouse roof is barely hanging on. When the sun finally is high enough in the sky to melt it there will be a major avalanche.