Reflecting Farmers
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Who needs trees for a campground?
Humble, clean facilities, friendly hosts. Not a high level of privacy between sites.
Sage
I have no wise words.
Borderlands Lookout
My favourite selfie
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Looking over to Montana
Lighted paths
If you look into the valley you can see the path we climbed to our sunset watching perch on 70 Mile Butte
Low light highlights
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Three teepees late morning
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Overhead sunshine
The overhead sun almost washes out both colours and texture, as Eileen appears to be heading nowhere.
Three teepees late evening
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Sunset gazers
Altogether I believe there were a total of 11 people up on these buttes with us watching the sunset. There's plenty of space to be with your thoughts.
Darkness Flattens
As the sun dips below the horizon the landscape once again flattens.
South Saskatchewan Saskatoon Panorama
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Letters
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Eileen at Sunset
Wild Crocus on the green
Textures
So many textures!
Spring Dugout
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Aurora on the farm
Northern lights apex
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Aurora and dippers
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Farmyard Night Magic
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Evening Gradients
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Flying into the sunset
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Wingless hover?
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Eileen spies lillies
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Granaries
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Sperling Sundogs
Rose Thorns
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Crocus Backlit
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Hunting for Crocuses
Library
This building was the town library when I grew up. It was the Post Office before that. The librarian gave Don Schroeder and I each a huge envelope of old Canadian stamps that launched our Philatelic careers!
Backlit White on Green
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Em & Cow
Emily and her bovine buddies.
Kevin & Bucket
Kevin's checks an item off his bucket list.
Michaela & Cow
Michaela Pries-Klassen making a new friend.
On the way
Our launch location was just down the lane.
Launching humans into the air.
Spectators
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Prairie Lillies
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Prairie Lilies
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Stoney Knoll at sunset
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Stoney Knoll at sunset
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Stoney Knoll at sunset
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Oops
Fauna too. I was quite taken by the unusual tail wing pattern, until I realized this was 2 butterflies! Apparently butterflies can even fly in this "position". 😉
Wide spaces
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What I meant to shoot
Picture 2 of a 2 part set. This is the photo I was trying to take.
Serendipity
Another thing growing amidst others. The berries are a separate plant, but it looked like a Christmas table display just put there by nature.
Greens
I was struck by all the horizontal layers of shades of green.
Betrayal
The pebbles are actually quite tiny. Eileen is actual a full sized human. Cameras DO lie.
Mystery
Eileen knows the names of lots of the flowers we found. I do not.
Whitemud
The white areas are high quality clay used by numerous local potters. We have some pottery made from it. That's it from Cypress Hills. Grasslands follow in a few days.
Ravenscrag
Heading south and east from Cypress Hills, this looks like it's out of a western movie set.
Sidelight
There was so much magical light on many of our hikes.