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Old Posted Nov 9, 2013, 8:28 PM
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Originally Posted by leftimage View Post
Holy crap is that farmland in the background?
That's quite a contrast. Personally, I like it a lot. Very eclectic.

Sometimes I get the impression Calgary forumers want to downplay the city's rural roots & boomtown feel, as if it's as an embarassing feature. I think it's cool.
That's probably true actually, but in this case... the first area that looks like farmland is the small valley that the Deerfoot Highway is in, and the second area is actually the massive YYC. The areas beyond that are a mix of residential with farmland and a power plant (the red smoke stacks) behind it. It just looks like farmland because the city has a semi-arid(semi-desert) climate, so the grass turns brown and looks like wheat by the end of summer. That is one of the things I find really cool about Calgary actually!
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