Weyburn, September 2012
As we left for Weyburn, we came across an increasingly common scene in St. Andrew's Heights: A house being moved to make way for a new build. This house is lucky. Most are just bulldozed. |
Wheat stalk sculptures along the Souris River in Weyburn |
John at Roche Percee. The rock is made up ofsiltstone and sandstone of the Ravenscrag formation. Lots of fossils of dead critters nearby, but NO Dinosaurs. It's Paleocene |
Concrete bridge at Roche Percee, Saskatchewan. The new pre-fabricated and pre-stressed concrete bridges may be more efficient, but can never be as picturesque. |
Oil development is often intense in south-east Saskatchewan. Several horizons can be tapped from the same small pad. |
The well maintained cemetery at Hirsch, Saskatchewan, east of Estevan. A colony for poor eastern European Jews was formed here, in the 1890s supported by Baron Hirsch. |
Many of the tombstones have a stump or truncated branch theme. They most often commemorate a life cut too short, here, Israel Berner, who died in Nov. 1918, at 20yrs (Spanish flu?) |
This tomb stone is draped with a prayer shawl. |
Ruth is always on the look-out for gardening ideas. This backyard in Weyburn caught her eye. |
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