"The Week", Heading to the Calgary Stampede

In Calgary it is known simply as, “The Week”. To people everywhere is is known as a city’s celebration of its Wild West roots. It is not just the cattlemen that slick up in their best boots, oilmen, bankers and citizens alike join in a raucous event. It is said that even the most uptight will find themselves screaming Yahoo! It is also said that nine months after the Stampede the birth rate in Calgary rises, dramatically.

These bovine VT beauties pictured above wouldn’t stand a chance up in Calgary during the Stampede. I have also got to wonder how this east coast, milk toast, country boy will handle events in Canada’s biggest cow town. It has been years since I sauntered up to the bar in my old cowboy boots!