Urban Art with Architecture

I don;t know what they call this urban art form...but it's cool to watch. Gymnastics with architecture or something like that.

Boys Toys

Downtown with fountain

Buffalo Cafe

Summer In The City - keeping cool anyway you can

Building the Caille

Summer in the City - lunch

I do all my own stunts

1886 Cafe

This is a great little cafe located in the heart of downtown Calgary close to the river. It's called simply '1886 Buffalo Cafe' and it serves great breakfasts.
1886 is actually the date the Eau Claire & Bow River Lumber company was established making this one of the oldest buildings in Calgary. Dwarfed by the tower blocks surrounding it, this little place is a real survivor.
In 1884 (the closest year for which I can find records) Calgary's population was a grand total of 504 souls. Today the city is home to well over 1 million people and still growing. This is an amazing transformation from the Calgary of 1875 the year in which the first settlers (a couple of families only) and the Northwest Mounted police came to town!
It's fascinating to sit in this little cafe and look at the old photographs on the wall and try to imagine the Prairies when they were home to only the First Nations people and the buffalo. I often wonder if all the cahanges in between are really any improvement on what was here before.

Downtown at night

Apologies for missing a day...life is a little busy right now!

This shot shows downtown Calgary on a summer's evening If I remember I'll try to take another one of the same view in the middle of winter when it's -30c - it looks a little different then! This is 9th Avenue (I think). Calgary is laid out on a grid system for the most part. All the avenues run East/West and all the streets run North/South.