I take a shortcut down gravel roads when I drive to and from North Battleford. There is a tremendous amount of water laying in the fields and ditches this spring – I had to double back on one part of the trip as the highway was closed by flooding.
The colours on the prairie are fabulous at this time of the year – this evening I stopped to take a few photos. Enjoy!
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Nice snaps!
Just one month till my wife begins to obsess about twisters… So much fun asking her “Do you see rotation?” 😀
I did not know that you were from the prairies. The images you sent us are so vivid and brings back many memories for me from the sixties.
Kate,
Sharp mind, sharp eye. It don’t get no better.
How nice, there’s lots of water. It’s a springtime preoccuption in Saskatchewan to wonder how the water situation is and how the farmers will be affected.
I used to be a school bus driver in rural Saskatchewan. Some advice from those days:
You know you shouldn’t continue down a road, if you’re chasing the ducks out of the “potholes”.
Anyone else got Saskatchewan “pothole jokes”?
A few years ago I was on an excursion to Zambia, being the only Canadian from rural Saskatchewan, I was the only one on the trip who dared take a turn at driving. The African potholes were fewer and farther between than our provincial “highways”.
Nice pics Kate!
Out here in B.C., the cherry blossoms are starting to appear. Sure does dress up the countryside.
Brings back memories of Greenheads and Pintails swimming in the roadside ditches so close you could almost reach out and touch them.
News update from Hamilton on federal dollars. I was getting worried about The Spec’s reporting until now. More secret dealings – have at it Kate
“Although TradePort has received almost $10 million from Ottawa, the city says it has never been paid a share. In fact, the city wouldn’t know what a proper share would be because it has never exercised its right to access TradePort’s books.”
I wonder if there is a Valeri connection to this?
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1144619554759&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1014656511815
P.S. great pics
I kinda answered my own question…
“One of Bill C-27’s opponents was the Liberal party’s Stan Keyes, the former Hamilton West MP. In fact, Keyes was a member of the Standing Committee on Transport, and former parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Transport.”
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1144619554461&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1014656511815
Valeri was a Minister of Transport but not sure if THIS Minister of Transport.
LIUNA – part owner of the airport had been classified by the FBI as having mob affiliations – but not really sure if that applies here
You make me wanna go fishing again.
Too bad where I live now we just have the dinky little brook trout.
I sure do miss the monster pike who’ll bite pretty much any lure. For a wee lad, the fight with those monsters was one helluva rush!
Looks like my gandmas old farm. Are you around Theodore?
Looks like my sister in laws’ home area. Are you around Richard? They are always complaining that they have not enough moisture in the soil in the spring. Maybe this year they will have a good year. Nice to see those pictures. I just love the scenery of the prairies in Saskatchewan: the clear skies, and the fields reaching all the way to the horizon.
great shots.
give us an update in a few weeks when you get that faint green blur that suddenly springs to green in about a week.
waiting for the heat here in Calgree Albirda.
Hey bigcitylib.
If you have roots in that soil there may be hope for you yet.lol
Yep, that’s a sure sign of spring on the prairies. I almost miss that rite of spring where cabin fever and the smell of something other than snow fills the air. Okay, besides the feedlot. With the water also comes a set of prairie high heels, where you seem to grow with every step in the mud.
My fondest spring thing was to see the crocus and gophers popping up all over the countryside, along with birds flying north.
Great pictures. Are you just using a digital? It looks like you are using a filter for some of the water shots.
Can’t tell if you guys in Saskabush have buds on the cactus yet like we do on AB.
See the gophers in gum boots bailing out their holes in the low areas? 😉
Waterfowl wonderland!!!
Thanks Kate!
I lived in SW Manitoba for twenty years, and these pics are powerfully nostalgic. By the way, the water is “lying” not “laying” in the fields. Tut tut….
Scrub grass and scrub bushes wishing they were trees. Yawn. Digital cameras are a boon to all that is mediocre, mundane and well …. flat.
Memories!
Thanks so much for these pictures:)
I haven’t been back to sask in 25 years. That side of the family eventually got out of farming. I remember driving up to the farm and seeing bitterns by the side of the road. Their colored more or less like a wheat field, and when their frightened they stick their heads straight up and freeze. Not to effective in a ploughed field.
A POTHOLE on Hwy 16 (The Yelowhead)est of Hinton, Alberta which had to be dug out was about 30 ft. long and one lane wide. it wa dug out about 6ft. and then filled. This is the trend this year
A POTHOLE on Hwy 16 (The Yelowhead)est of Hinton, Alberta which had to be dug out was about 30 ft. long and one lane wide. it wa dug out about 6ft. and then filled. This is the trend this year