It almost looks peaceful. You would never know that the evening before people were scanning the skys to the west for any sign of a threatened tornado, or that the thunderstorm that did come through left enough hail blanketing the ground that it could have been mistaken for a winter snow storm rather than a summer thunder storm.
Damage from the hail ranged from little, to entire fields laid flat. Just like somebody had just come through with a giant lawnmower. 
The Wild Gailardia, or Brown Eyed Susan which it is incorrectly know as, is common along the road sides of the dry prairie regions of Alberta in July and August. 
Horse Thief Canyon near Drumheller, Alberta.
This isn’t a recent photograph, its actually a scan from a 35 mm slide from the 70’s. It’s one of the images that we used in a interpretive presentation that we developed at Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park. The location, which at the time was private property, and is now part of Writing-On-Stone is just down stream from the Coffin Bridge.
