Link to First Five Years of "Dora's Page", 2019-2024
Calgary had to go to watering restrictions not because one pipe broke, but because it had been allowed to become a crucial, critical, indispensable pipe. It was so vital because the "North Calgary Water Servicing Project" was cancelled in 2021, after 3 years of planning, and five million dollars in design and preparation work. Why the badly-needed, long-delayed project was cancelled remains a mystery - but what we know is that the organization was making other bad decisions of the same sort: cancelling growth projects when growth was continuing, and then actually accelerated.
A picture worth 10,000 words, Hugh's timeline demands some zooming in and panning around. But you can't get around the blue line showing ever-rising growth, while the green one shows $660M in needed projects being cancelled, the whole time. The crude oil price had come back even earlier - it may have been a "jobless recovery" in the oil patch, but the new citizens kept arriving, nonetheless.
2024 October 20: Streets of Valencia
2024 October 19: Space Hotel in Barcelona
2024 October 18: Restaurant of Lights
2024 October 17: Woman, Man, Duck in the Jardin
2024 October 16: Paris Stairs and Gardens
2024 September 20: Extra Day for Goodbye!
2024 September 19: Alan's Peahen
2024 September 18: "All Things Electric" Show IX: Odds and Ends
2024 September 17: "All Things Electric" Show VIII: Marine
2024 September 16: "All Things Electric" Show VII: Minimobility
2024 September 15: "All Things Electric" Show VI: Test Driving
2024 September 14: "All Things Electric" Show V: Electric @ Work
2024 September 13: "All Things Electric" Show IV: BIG Money
2024 September 10: "All Things Electric" Show III: Micromobility
2024 September 10: "All Things Electric" Show II: Luxury
2024 September 9: "All Things Electric" Show I: Not
2024 September 8: Two Views of Lion's Gate
2024 September 5: Tree Shadow Creates Mural
2024 September 4: Cutest Things in the Park
2024 September 3: Embracing the Aquarium
2024 September 2: The Ross Fountain
2024 September 1: Heron and Flower
2024 August 31: Pointing Up and Down
2024 August 29: Sunken Garden, Perfect
2024 August 28: Ride Around the Seawall, Busy
2024 August 27: New Otter Pups!
2024 August 26: Shakespeare; And, At the Aquarium
2024 August 25: Two Kinds of Coleus
2024 August 22: Development is Big
2024 August 20: Bluecrown Passionflower
2024 August 19: Ducks on a Log
2024 August 17: Seaside Fleabane
2024 August 16: More Ravine Trail
2024 August 14: Phone addiction at Beaver Lake
2024 August 13: Japanese Andromeda
2024 August 12: Plants with Veins
2024 August 3: One Ugly Flower
2024 August 1: Sunset the Colour of Blood
2024 July 31: Flowers I Misnamed
2024 July 30: Visit to the Sea
2024 July 28: Ready for their Closeup
2024 July 27: Spacing, Then and Now (Pandemic ends)
2024 July 25: Old House, Old Tree, Old Crow
2024 July 22: Lost Lagoon Scum
2024 July 20: 33rd Anniversary! Spiders and Spray
2024 July 17: Efficient Housing in West Kelowna
2024 July 6: Last Post for a Week: Lily
2024 July 5: Clearing Out Beairsto Bounty (II)
2024 July 4: Clearing Out Beairsto Bounty (I)
2024 July 3: Rose Garden is Back for 2024, Baby!
2024 June 30: Long Exposure at Bolton
2024 June 26-27: Splendor in the Grass
2024 June 25: Under the Canopy
2024 June 23: Catching Up With Allan
2024 June 22: I Got Back to Work!
2024 June 20: I Got Into The Newspaper
2024 June 19: Deer and Sticky Willie
2024 June 17: Alan's New Flowers: Busy Lizzie
2024 June 16: Flock Gathers Below My Podium
2024 June 15: Bell with an Ant
2024 June 13: Rugosa Rose, and Oh, Deer!
2024 June 11: Beairsto Backlog
2024 June 10: Resumption of Dora's Page with Alan!
2024 June 6: The Great Calgary Mainbreak of 2024
2024 June 5: Rainy Day Pictures
2024 May 31: Rose Garden Up and Running
2024 May 30: Beaver Lake Lily Pads
2024 May 28: Duck Couple with Two Ponds
2024 May 27: 12 Geese Parents, 20 goslings
2024 May 26: Yellow-White Iris
2024 May 27: 12 Geese Parents, 20 goslings
2024 May 24: Flowers from Alan and Loblaw
2024 May 23: Not-Dead Tree and the Lordly Goose
2024 May 22: Layers of Flowers at the Golf Course
2024 May 20: Streets of Flowers
2024 May 17: Two Gardens, One Ready, One Done