Phil Beaver's

Travelogue Photo Diary

Fernie, British Columbia, Canada   April 2005

     I returned yesterday, April 18, 2005, from a quilting seminar in Canada, sponsored by Eleanor Cook at The Cotton Tree Quilt Shop on the historic main street in Fernie, British Columbia.  Established in 1889, the small town of 5,000 nestled in a brief, open area of the Canadian Rockies.  It was all a great experience:  the local folks, the town, the mountains.  I look forward to a return visit in 2006.

The flight seemed endless as we flew over the Rocky Mountains in northwestern Montana.

Eleanor Cook, The Cotton Tree Quilt Shop

    The following seven photos feature only some of the participating quilters attending the Fernie workshop. They came from as far away as near Vancouver and left a bit early for a long drive home, and before picture taking began. These pieces are not quite finished in the photos.

Anne

Beulah

Colleen

Donna

Donna

Jackie

Linda

Fernie, British Columbia, Canada  I stayed at the Park Place Hotel in Fernie.  It's the yellow building with the green roof at the left edge of the photograph.

An evening view from my hotel room.   My stay in Fernie came with plenty of rain, sleet, snow, and very little sun.

 As we drove from Fernie and back to the airport for my ride home, the scenery was overwhelming.  A real cowboy and his dog tended  a big herd of herford cows.

     The cowboy  came to me at the fence, and as he put it, "so the tourist could get a better picture."  Andy posed a moment with his horse and border collie.

 My four days in Fernie were wonderful, but time came to board a jet and head back to the U.S. 

We flew high above the mountains, into the clouds and beyond.

     I have two jobs scheduled in the Canadian Rockies for 2006.  I'm anxious to return, but for now Fernie is a memory, a good memory that will last for a very long time. 

Thanks, Eleanor, and thanks quilters for a day that will last longer than a day.  Phil Beaver