Balloon

High River, Alta. _ Jul 17, 2010 _ After watching Jamie Kinghorn's hot air ballon land on a nearby road, it didn't take long for the Hutterite children from High River Colony to pitch in and help the pilot remove the air from the ballon and pack it away. The balloons launched at the Joe English Fly_in at the AJ Flying Ranch east of Cayley. (Mike Sturk photo)

Balloon

High River, Alta. - Jul 17, 2010 - After watching watched Jamie Kinghorn's hot air ballon land on a nearby road, it didn't take long for the Hutterite children from High River Colony to pitch in and help the pilot remove the air from the ballon and pack it away. The balloons launched at the Joe English Fly-in at the AJ Flying Ranch east of Cayley. (Mike Sturk photo)

Cayley, Alta _ May 1, 2012 _ Rain=Happy _ Two days of steady rain have put a happy face on Southern Alberta farmers as horses graze near a barn with a happy face east of Cayley along Hwy. 2.(Mike Sturk photo)

Parkland Colony, Parkland Alta _ June 14, 2012 _ After school's out for the afternoon, boys and girls from the Parkland Colony southwest of Nanton head out to the colony's garden for weeding duty.Weeding onions and corn were the extracurricular activities of the afternoon. (Mike Sturk photo)

Parkland Colony, Parkland Alta _ June 14, 2012 _ After school's out for the afternoon, boys and girls from the Parkland Colony southwest of Nanton head out to the colony's garden for weeding duty.Weeding onions and corn were the extracurricular activities of the afternoon. (Mike Sturk photo)

Brant, Alta _ Feb. 23, 2013 _Carl Vanderploeg, his daughter Haley and sons Ryan and Caslo, move 89 head of cattle from their wintering pasture 8 kms west of Brant to their ranch east of Brant where the cows will calve during the next month. (Mike Sturk photo)

Cayley, Alta _ Sept. 23, 2014 _ Pause for a worthy cause _ Richard Walter (in truck) and Gerald Stahl (on combine) refuel a lineup of Cayley Hutterite Colony combines on a wheat field east of Cayley. (Mike Sturk photo)

Cayley, Alta _ Oct. 24, 2014 _ Warren Stephenson bales oats for green feed in a field west of Cayley with straw bales in the background . (Mike Sturk photo)

Longview, Alta _ Jan. 13, 2015 _ A bull moose runs along a fine line along Highway 22 at sunrise south of Longview. (Mike Sturk photo)

Longview, Alta _ July 21, 2015 _ A pair of mule deer bucks, this year's antlers still in velvet, stand by the edge of a canola field south of Longview. (Mike Sturk photo)

Cayley, Alta _ Aug. 17, 2015 _ Hutterites from the Cayley Colony combine a bumper pea crop into the evening. (Mike Sturk photo)

High River, Alta _ Sept. 2, 2015 _ Scott (in the truck) and Sheri Henry (on the combine) take advantage of a long stretch of good harvest weather to combine wheat in a field east of High River. (Mike Sturk photo)

High River, Alta _ Sept. 21, 2015 _ Hot air balloons fly near piles of grain in a field south of Okotoks. The balloons are in High River for the balloon festival and Canadian championships Sept. 23 _ 27.(Mike Sturk photo)

Cayley, Alta _ Oct. 10, 2015 _ Chris Vandals of Nelson Trucking checks his load of barley as another combine with a full hopper of barley approaches. Combining is still under way especially in higher elevations of the foothills southwest of High River where four combines harvest Cody Longson's barley field west of Cayley.(Mike Sturk photo)

Cayley, Alta _ Oct. 10, 2015 _ Combining is still under way especially in higher elevations of the foothills southwest of High River where four combines harvest Cody Longson's barley field west of Cayley.(Mike Sturk photo)

Cayley, Alta _ Oct. 11, 2015 _ A white_tailed deer, one of many residing in the cornfields, runs away as combines move closer. Combining is still under way especially in higher elevations of the foothills southwest of High River where four combines harvest Cody Longson's barley field. These barley fields are interspersed with corn fields to provide open areas for cattle which will eventually feed on the corn. (Mike Sturk photo)

Cayley, Alta _ Oct. 11, 2015 _ A white_tailed deer runs away from a cornfield as combines move closer. Combining is still under way especially in higher elevations of the foothills southwest of High River where four combines harvest Cody Longson's barley field. These barley fields are interspersed with corn fields to provide open areas for cattle which will eventually feed on the corn. (Mike Sturk photo)

Cayley Colony, Cayley, Alta _ March 11, 2017 _ Justin Stahl and his horse take his sister Angeline Stahl (front) and Bailey Walter on a snowy ride on the calving sled during a cold _23C day. (Mike Sturk photo)

Vulcan, Alta _ July 31, 2017 _ On one of the earliest combining dates in memory, Cayley Colony Hutterites combine 800 acres of peas northwest of Vulcan. (Mike Sturk photo)

Vulcan, Alta _ July 31, 2017 _ On one of the earliest combining dates in memory, Cayley Colony Hutterites combine 800 acres of peas northwest of Vulcan. (Mike Sturk photo)

High River, Alta _ Aug. 11, 2017 _ A hot air balloon passes in front of the sun as a farmer loads rye from his combine onto a grain truck southwest of High River. Red sunsets have occurred for a good part of the summer due to smoke from B.C. forest fires traveling into the province. (Mike Sturk photo)