Weyburn, September 2012

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.