Reader Steve Smith sent along a link to photos he took this summer while on a trip through our fair province.
Except for the burrowing owls, the birds are from Frank Lake in Alberta – an annual stop of ours. I was amazed at the giant prairie agricultural engine that was producing like crazy. We really liked the small ranching/farming towns like Consul, Ceylon, Cadillac, East End, Val Marie, Carlyle, Oxbow, Shaunavon. Rosetown etc. My only previous experience of Saskatchewan was Prince Albert – forestry project.
And they’re fabulous. What talented readers we have. Enjoy!
Absolutely stunning photos. Thanks for posting. Saskabush Tourism should be using them.
Did east&west of Grasslands Nat Park early Aug. Fire ban despite mushroom growth, mosquitoes, firepits. Didn’t stop some resourceful visitors.
SW Sask can be quite hilly, a nostalgia trip on some narrow two lane roads.
Nice work!
For lots of excellent photos of Saskatchewan, check out this woman and her “Chasing Yesterday” site.
https://www.chasingyesterday-sk.ca/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMf-_9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEyYXZEd0Y0a1ZyMHFnb3lqAR5tAXMRSAzo7U9q5QtP9ZumVDIUw97bLDi-zSjAtyI9Oa3z_Zm_Yn4RxpgeZA_aem_Q8qTK1vqoPda7GgIFIKprw
Nice that she got those church photos before the noble, peaceful, harmonious, FN “victims” burned them to the ground.
Amazing photos! The third photo looks like the Liberal Party Headquarters in Saskatoon.
Frank Lake? Did they name it after the magazine? Or is it just down the road from the much less attractive Mealymouth Lake?
lol l miss Frank. they publish 2 of my letters to the editor. one was about how Maxime’s friend was a former biker chick now into the role of jet setter gf available.
l concluded ‘you can take the biker chick out of the biker club but you cant take the biker club out of the biker chick’.
he left a brief case of secret documents at her place. she musta been one speeeeectacular lay to create that level distraction.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/woman-who-dated-bernier-had-links-to-biker-gang/article959264/
2008 l still remember !!! ha ha!!!
Nice. I believe whomever named Montana “The Big Sky Country” hadn’t yet visited Sask. Wow! There’s literally no escape from lightning on the plains, is there? Do you treat every electrical storm as an emergency and seek shelter?
“Truck Trip” … nice touch. No one will ever post “EV trip across Sask.”
I loved watching the storm clouds roll in and seeing the lightning storms attack us while we watched from the front steps. Mom would say we’re going to be struck by it about 1/2 the time, and no surprise that we all survived unscathed…
This is closely related to how we feel about lightning storms:
https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/2017/06/05/canadian-man-mows-lawn-tornado-behind-him/14857520007/
Terrific photos Steve Smith! so familiar..
About the same way I feel about earthquakes …
Escape is possible, but requires a lot of digging. I can remember a visit to the ranch of one of my father’s cousins on the plains of the far Western Dakotas when we were treated to a tour of the family root cellar. While essential to food preservation its secondary function was shelter from tornadoes.
Yeah, not to bad for ‘a barren wasteland incapable of supporting human life.’ A frame of mind not all that different from modern Eastern Canadians.
are you saying eastern canaduh is a barren wasteland ? lol
Oh, where’s that Willys wagon? It looks like it has parts I need for the one I’m doing a resto-mod on! (In Saskatoon) LOL
That caught my eye too! Sweet classic truck!
And probably cheaper than the LR Defender I covet
Been working on mine for three years now (not spending as much time on it as I should). But I may have it on the road for the August 2026 ‘Show & Shine’ in Saskatoon.
brother of mine a very skill autobody mechanic had model T very gradually restoring. he got the chrome stuff rechromed and had just taken delivery one visit. iirc he took my pa for a drive, *he* owned one in his day.
On my first road trip (at 18) from Toronto to Vancouver with a couple of buddies we camped out somewhere in Saskatchewan and witnessed the most incredible lightning storm I have ever seen.
Also, for a while when I lived in Alberta I rented a place almost identical to the pictured abandoned homestead. It wasn’t caving in of course and it had a beautiful wood burning stove.
Very nice!
You want more Saskatchewan?
Watch “CORNER GAS” episodes. Now in reruns, but very addictive. Lots of scene bits on YouTube.
Where groceries come from.