A couple of quick snapshots taken on my drive home from Hanley, SK as the sun dropped low in the sky this afternoon.
The old bridge at Outlook. (Full size)
The highway looking north, near Swanson. (Full size)
A couple of quick snapshots taken on my drive home from Hanley, SK as the sun dropped low in the sky this afternoon.
The old bridge at Outlook. (Full size)
The highway looking north, near Swanson. (Full size)
Hot and cool colors together. Always gets attention, doesn’t it?
Very nice, Kate. And NO SNOW.
It’s the end of November. Where’s the snow?
We used to pass through Outlook on the way from Moose Jaw to the farm Mum grew up on near Dodsland. I remember that bridge and the Esso station in Rosetown where dad always stopped to get us a chocolate bar.
We’ve only had a dusting so far.
Saskatchewan! – Lots to see and nothing blocking your view.! God how I love this province!
Hows the fishing under the bridge?
No visible pump jacks in the fine photos Kate.
However it must be gratifying to know that great country is floating on oil.
Three feet of snow in the lea of Lake Huron, Ipperwash area, eight inches in Woodstock an hour drive away.
Kate,
That thing looks like a railway bridge but, that’s one heck of a grade coming off of the end of it. What is it, and is it still in use?
Thanks for the memories Kate. Worked on a farm one summer near Macrorie.
It’s an old highway bridge, the incline was the roadway. The valleys here were created by glacial melt and the sides tend to be abrupt, so when we do encounter a climb, it can be a rather steep one (especially on older secondary highways).
Headed west out of Wpg by train just after the sun set. The cloudless cobalt sky tinged by the pink aura of the sun was quite striking. Reminded me of the Mojave desert sans mountains.
Looks kind of flat, if you look to the South West, can you see the Grey Cup??
Looking at that road surface I see where some of that new royalty money could be spent. Nice photos.
There’s no sign of ice in that river but there are no ducks or geese in the sky. Are the migrations finished for the year? We used to hunt birds until everything froze over.
Damn, that is flat. To my Ontarian eyes, it looks almost surreal.
I’ve been in Saskatchewan just once, to photograph an aboriginal artist for a magazine I once worked for. He picked me up with a buddy of his in his Cadillac at my hotel in Regina, and drove me out to the town where he lived. I was awestruck by the … well … flatness. I commented on it, and his buddy in the back of the land yacht said “Oh, that’s nothing. You should go to North Dakota; it’s much flatter there.”
I expressed my amazement – how could you get any flatter than this?
“Easy. No trees.”
I never really got over how big the sky and how flat the horizon was when I worked in Saskatchewan. My sweetie, who grew up just up the road from you in Biggar, once in a while feels hemmed in by the mountains and even the sea.
Great pics. Thanks.
Snow will be there soon.
I guess If I had to live somewhere that flat I’d stick a pistol in my mouth and scatter my grey matter all over the featureless landscape. What kind of a freak could stand such a place?
well…I guess we know the answer to that.
Great pics Kate!
I envy your lack of snow…………
Kate
I love the colours you got out of the bridge, very nice photo. By posting the two pictures together you have shown two sides to the aria around Outlook, one very flat and the other very steep. I just drove that road two weeks ago but was so busy getting to were I was going I forgot to enjoy the view. Next time I will make a point of slowing down and enjoying the trip.
Did you take in the Hanley dinner theatre? The cast was great this year.
jebus could you post a few pictures of were you live? Perhaps your definition of beauty is different from others, but that gives you no right to call someone a freak because of were they live. I was born in the Vermillion Hills south of were Kate’s pictures were taken. I was not fond of the aria so I moved North to were there are more trees, others stayed behind because they love the land they are on. It doesn’t make them or me a freak, it just shows that there is diversity in our world and I consider that a good thing.
BTW in the aria the picture was taken if you called a woman a freak to her face you would get the crap beaten out of you…
by the woman. Grow up and learn some manners, hiding behind a computer doesn’t give you the right to be rude.
Well Jebus since you offered I’m sure there are quite a few here that will help you load the pistol.
I’m not one of them of course and I would like to tell you a little secret. Beauty is found most often when one is not looking for it. Its one of life’s little joys.
Proof positive that Saskatchewan DOES have mountains. They’re just all the same height (read: flat) heh! Nice pics, Kate!
Great shots Kate. Having lived in Outlook for 6 years that old highway bridge is a very familiar sight as is the old railway bridge a bit further up the river.
Bob in Chaplin
If there is one series of images that stays with me from travels in Saskatchewan, it’s the beauty of valleys that curl around the lakes and rivers.
They look like the flanks of large dormant animals, powerful even in sleep. The play of light across their tawny sides is a visual delight.
Man, I thought S. Louisi-Yana was flat.
Geeez Kate, you could chop up and bury/hide quite a few pesky Liberals out there in those flats and the authorities would never find them, 😉
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I think I saw my dog in that second photo. He ran away from home three years ago when we lived in the Jaw 😉
Great pics Kate. Like the look of no snow in November. Not to often in Sask. and Alta. we have this happen. Hope there enjoying the snow in the East. Thanks to global warming we can still set outside in the sun, +10*c where I live at 1300hrs. Haven’t even turned the furnace on yet, wood stove is quite sufficient to keep the old house warm.
Forgot to add Congrates to the Stampeders for their Grey Cup win. Come home Stanley, “you know you want to”.
Hey, I crossed that bridge when I came to it.
That was when I worked inside the penstocks on the Gardiner Dam. We were grouting them.
I haven’t seen the dam since it was finished so if you are ever around it, maybe you could get some pics of it too?
Pretty please?
Nice bridge pics too.
Beautiful picture. Bridges have to be one of the most beautiful human constructions. The second picture looks similar to either of the Dakotas. Looooooooong vistas.
“scatter my grey matter all over the featureless landscape.”
You flatter yourself. Judging by your post, the resulting mess would probably amount to that created by a grasshopper hitting the windshield.
Jeez, a woodpecker would have to pack a lunch.
Call Suzuki …. there’s obviously a lot of global warming in SK!!
Jebus – Kate posts two beautiful pictures that anyone with an ounce of aesthetic sensibility would appreciate, and all you can do is find fault with the local geography.
Christmas is coming up – you going to try to spoil that too, Grinch?
What kind of camera, if I may ask?
I carry a small 6 megapixel just in case I see something interesting (also good for documenting Windows blue screens of death every few weeks) but now I see that there’s a new 14.7 MP version in the same size format, amazing.
It’s an old Hewlit-Packard Photosmart digital.