It’s raining again today, and I still don’t have those rain barrels together – my Mom used to tell me “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Guilty! I could have watered my entire lawn and garden well into summer with our roof runoff during the mini-monsoon over the past three days.

Happy Earth Day 2013, and welcome to my first regular NLT blog post. Earth Day has, over the past 20 years, become for me a time of both reaching out and reaching in. The issues we face - as a community, a state, a nation, a world – are huge and it’s absolutely essential that we solve them, but to sustain the energy required, we must remember the words of Edward Abbey: “Do not burn yourselves out.”

Our twelfth Banff Mountain Film Festival event is a wrap! The films have been shown, the prizes distributed, and our donors thanked. All that’s left is reviewing the event to discuss how to improve next year’s show. Thank you supporters for making the Banff Mountain Film Festival so fun and festive!