A few miles northwest of Regina, SK., early morning on January 1st. (click for full size.)
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Beautiful.
Loved living there…. Miles and Miles of nothing but Miles and Miles… Watching your dog run away from home for 3 days, watching your golf ball bounce own the fairway for 15 minutes.
I lived in Regina from Sept ’83 to April ’86 before getting transferred out with my job. We lived in Normanview, on Dorothy Steet. I have very fond memories of the Queen City. Not only did I love the biking trail running the length of the City, which allowed me to pedal to work downtown, but I also loved the heat, the cold, the huge sky, and the smell of the place. Finally, I loved it there because my kids were preschoolers during that era. I remember the summer of 1984 was a scorcher!
One of the best progressive pat impressions I’ve ever heard.
You can see them coming from miles (KM’s) away.
Spent four winters stationed at Minot AFB, North Dakota. As a “youngster” I wasn’t all that “impressed”. Guess I had to get older and wiser to appreciate and miss the beauty of the prairie.
Kate, you can see my house from there!! (100 miles away).
I lived in Sask for too long between 1941-1979.. I can feel the cold in that picture that everyone thinks is unique…YES! there is a Warm alternative in Arizona, but Sask folks tough it out BSing themselves. The winter is a bitch… Suck it up and submit to cabin fever, or moderate it by Straight Scotch on the rocks…
JMHO
Look at all that room for windmills and solar panels.
Look at all that room for windmills and solar panels.
Sorry. As a Maritimer,if I want to see 100’s of miles of nothing and no horizon,I’ll stick to the Atlantic Ocean. At least I know intelligent life (fish) live there.
If you look far enough in the distance you can see the back of your own head.
BTW, how does one ski? 🙂 Seriously, it is its own kind of beautiful.
One ski? There are lots of ‘skis’ living in Saskatchewan. Bill Clinton was seen cruising the streets while Hillary was giving a speech in Saskatoon a couple of years ago. He had heard Saskatchewan was the “Land of the Livinskys”
If you see sun-dogs on either side of the sun stock up on milk, bread, and wood. I love it here, but as the bones get older it does feel better to stay in the warm.
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So I guess you have never seen a gopher dig a hole with a secret exit hole in case a badger decides time for lunch. Have you ever seen a wild prairie Lilly or spring crocuses rinsing out of the new spring prairie landscape.
Or perhaps the Canada Geese that head south from late September to November in large noisy v shaped
flocks every day. Or the magnificent snow geese flocks that arrive from the Arctic.
Then with snow still on the ground they rush back to create new families. Never mind the flocks of ducks, blackbirds robins and hundreds of species of song birds flycatchers , owls. Hawks of many species come back early to feast on the gophers . Moles get back to work tunnelling unseen. Crows come first and recycle all the winter kill.
I could go on but enjoy your view of water. Stay there.
Sorry nic…forgot the sarc tag/NOT….spoken like a true PEI ,I know your mom,I’m a libtard,spud(wouldn’t know a tater)Islander…with a lobster.Go figure it out.
Nice.
east coaster, I have many friends form those parts, and never realized that they had key board warriors, always thought they were real men, you’v proved me wrong on that
they ski downhill into the valley. or they pile up dirt on the edge of the valley and call it a hill.
stick to the Atlantic.
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I also live a few miles from the Atlantic beach, Ocean Isle NC.
Used to live about 20 miles from Grandfather mountain where my Scottish ancestors settled.
But my wounded bones can’t take the cold anymore- About a foot of snow predicted up there this weekend with 22 degrees.
Here it will be 57 degrees with some rain and mix later that night.
Getting ready to go watch the High Tide, maybe catch a flounder.
Ha.
–
Every now and then we drive over a railroad crossing hump and I think about the mountains.
Beautiful.
Loved living there…. Miles and Miles of nothing but Miles and Miles… Watching your dog run away from home for 3 days, watching your golf ball bounce own the fairway for 15 minutes.
I lived in Regina from Sept ’83 to April ’86 before getting transferred out with my job. We lived in Normanview, on Dorothy Steet. I have very fond memories of the Queen City. Not only did I love the biking trail running the length of the City, which allowed me to pedal to work downtown, but I also loved the heat, the cold, the huge sky, and the smell of the place. Finally, I loved it there because my kids were preschoolers during that era. I remember the summer of 1984 was a scorcher!
One of the best progressive pat impressions I’ve ever heard.
You can see them coming from miles (KM’s) away.
Spent four winters stationed at Minot AFB, North Dakota. As a “youngster” I wasn’t all that “impressed”. Guess I had to get older and wiser to appreciate and miss the beauty of the prairie.
Kate, you can see my house from there!! (100 miles away).
I lived in Sask for too long between 1941-1979.. I can feel the cold in that picture that everyone thinks is unique…YES! there is a Warm alternative in Arizona, but Sask folks tough it out BSing themselves. The winter is a bitch… Suck it up and submit to cabin fever, or moderate it by Straight Scotch on the rocks…
JMHO
Look at all that room for windmills and solar panels.
Look at all that room for windmills and solar panels.
Sorry. As a Maritimer,if I want to see 100’s of miles of nothing and no horizon,I’ll stick to the Atlantic Ocean. At least I know intelligent life (fish) live there.
If you look far enough in the distance you can see the back of your own head.
BTW, how does one ski? 🙂 Seriously, it is its own kind of beautiful.
One ski? There are lots of ‘skis’ living in Saskatchewan. Bill Clinton was seen cruising the streets while Hillary was giving a speech in Saskatoon a couple of years ago. He had heard Saskatchewan was the “Land of the Livinskys”
If you see sun-dogs on either side of the sun stock up on milk, bread, and wood. I love it here, but as the bones get older it does feel better to stay in the warm.
captcha: open please
So I guess you have never seen a gopher dig a hole with a secret exit hole in case a badger decides time for lunch. Have you ever seen a wild prairie Lilly or spring crocuses rinsing out of the new spring prairie landscape.
Or perhaps the Canada Geese that head south from late September to November in large noisy v shaped
flocks every day. Or the magnificent snow geese flocks that arrive from the Arctic.
Then with snow still on the ground they rush back to create new families. Never mind the flocks of ducks, blackbirds robins and hundreds of species of song birds flycatchers , owls. Hawks of many species come back early to feast on the gophers . Moles get back to work tunnelling unseen. Crows come first and recycle all the winter kill.
I could go on but enjoy your view of water. Stay there.
Sorry nic…forgot the sarc tag/NOT….spoken like a true PEI ,I know your mom,I’m a libtard,spud(wouldn’t know a tater)Islander…with a lobster.Go figure it out.
Nice.
east coaster, I have many friends form those parts, and never realized that they had key board warriors, always thought they were real men, you’v proved me wrong on that
they ski downhill into the valley. or they pile up dirt on the edge of the valley and call it a hill.
stick to the Atlantic.
–
I also live a few miles from the Atlantic beach, Ocean Isle NC.
Used to live about 20 miles from Grandfather mountain where my Scottish ancestors settled.
But my wounded bones can’t take the cold anymore- About a foot of snow predicted up there this weekend with 22 degrees.
Here it will be 57 degrees with some rain and mix later that night.
Getting ready to go watch the High Tide, maybe catch a flounder.
Ha.
–
Every now and then we drive over a railroad crossing hump and I think about the mountains.
BOOM! Sorry. Thought it was Japan.