Highway 17 South
Field of Peas
Lots of bush
Oil tanks and pumpers
Trapshooting range
A tree farm
Range of Hills to the Well
Oil country
Looks like Texas
Mud riddled highway
First summer fallow seen
Horses; appaloosas
Battle River Valley
Wild flower countryside
Rich looking crops
Hawk or owl?
Wild country
Good roads amazing
Till hubby says,
Any place theres oil,
you cant bitch about the roads.
Sloughs as high as fence posts
Bush and rolling land
Cattle Country
Old Fashioned Farmyards
Close together
Windmills on Dugouts
And sloughs
Cattle gates
Prairie trails
Well fed hawks
Now no farmyards
Black Angus cattle
Small town
A railway avenue
A main street called Broad Street
Places for sale
A cattle trailer for a moving van
Next town Cutknife
Worlds largest tomahawk
Treed Streets
Beautiful
Hollyhocks by the front door
Majestic poplars
Line the way
In and out of town
Yellow Canola surrounds
First nations reserves
Further out
1909 school cairn
In the ditch
Foxtail
Butterflies
Carraghanas pushed into a pile
Clearing land again
Well tended farms
Flat land
Next town Unity
Bigger than we figured
Sifto salt plant
Buffalo farm
Lots of little ones
Cowboy country
Another town Wilke
Marshland
Ducks haven
A stone barn
Outlived its usefulness
A town called Biggar
Weather for ice cream
Sandra Schmirler Centennial Park
Walk around
See a McLeods Store
Four way stop he didnt see
Said he was paying attention to me
Looking at the Golf Course
And prairie malt
Barley turning yellow
Perdue Oasis
A few golf carts; no rvs
Years ahead of its time?
Elevator sign
Entrance to their town
Side of the highway
Sunflowers wave
All our way
Home.
– 27 July 2014 –
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