I spent 8 hours in a booth painting tow-trucks today, along with a two hundred mile round trip to get to the customer's shop in North Battleford and back. I don't have a lot of energy for blogging. But I did stop on the way home to take some photos. The trees are covered wtih hoarfrost, so the world here is rather monochromatic at the moment.
Until the sun begins to set...
(The bottom two pictures will open to full size if you click on them.)
And speaking of a monochrome world - there is a blizzard warning, expected to move in after midnight. Should be back to regular blogging tomorrow....
The last two kick ass. :-)
The top pic is very intense, and quite beautiful.It would make a very dramatic painting.
Wow, Kate... those are beautiful. I might be inspired to do one of my watercolors based on those. : )
Kate:
You seem determined to post pictures that will make this expat burst with homesickness and nostalgia.
I think I'd better get the old CD player going and give "Bobcaygeon" and "Thompson Girl" a few spins...
Keep those photos coming!
JJM
Another expat agrees - keep em coming
Come on now people. We all know that Saskatchewan is flat, ugly and boring.
Oh, maybe it isn't!!!
Great pics, they show some of what all Saskatchewanians (including me) love about our province.
saskatchewan,saskatchewan,oh how i miss thee,the sights the sounds ,the smell of a new can of gopher poison just opened,the smell of grasshoppers cooking on my truck radiator,the sound of the phone ringing everytime the lighting struck the line,driving on frozen lakes snowdrifts at the top of the trees formed so hard from the wind.
Tears coming to my eyes,oh the longing to return to the places of my youth,way to many memories,mostly good,wonderful friends.
Look what your pictures did to me,shame on you.
Achingly beautiful scenes. There is a God.
As the sun sinks toward the horizon, sunlight enters the atmosphere at a much lower angle and consequently must pass through much more atmosphere before being seen by an observer. Air molecules scatter away the shorter wavelengths of light (violet and blue) and the only light which penetrates through the atmosphere are the longer wavelengths of light (yellow, orange and red) which produce colorful sunsets. Because of the refraction of sunlight by the atmosphere itself, the sun will appear to be higher in the sky than it actually is. The combination of refraction and scattering of sunlight by atmospheric particles is responsible for producing twilight, the brightness in the sky we observe even though the sun is below the horizon.
The size and concentration of atmospheric particles in the path of incoming sunlight determine the type of sunset observed. When sunlight encounters very few particles in the atmosphere, most wavelengths of light reach the observer's eyes with almost equal intensity. The reduced scattering produces the white or yellow sunsets commonly observed in the Rocky Mountains, where the atmosphere typically contains fewer dust and assorted particles.
As incoming sunlight passes through a more dense atmosphere, shorter wavelengths of light (violet and blue) are efficiently scattered away by particles suspended in the atmosphere. This allows predominantly yellow and red wavelengths of light to reach the observer's eyes, producing a yellowish-red sunset.
When there is a high concentration of particles in the atmosphere that are slightly larger than air molecules (like smoke, dust, and pollutants), shorter and intermediate wavelengths of light (violet, blue and yellow) are scattered away. Therefore, only the longer wavelengths (orange and red) reach the observer's eyes, giving the sun a orange-red appearance.
When incoming sunlight encounters a heavy concentration of particles in the atmosphere, the shorter wavelengths of light (violet and blue) are scattered away, resulting in a red sunset. Red sunsets are often observed from a beach because of the high concentration of salt particles suspended in the air over the oceans. These particles effectively scatter shorter wavelengths of light, producing red sunsets. Dust and ash particles injected into the atmosphere by volcanic eruptions can also cause red sunsets.
It's pollution, moron.
I'd be curious about your theory as to what type.
The photo was taken about 30 miles south of North Battleford, Saskatchewan. Looking west, of course.