Greetings From the Skies and Fields of Saskatchewan!

I think the picture says it all, pretty much.

Looking north across a rye field, seeing the sky dance from above latitudes even higher than the one on which we were standing.

This is one of those things that peeps south of the border don't get to see very often, and certainly not the folks in Florida.

I secretly speculate that this is the REAL reason the Amerikanskis bought Alaska.......

.......as good a reason as any, I guess.

I have to say.

I was worried that I wouldn't be able to fit "Saskatchewan" into the title bar's space allowance.

I guess you gotta have a big name to balance only having 15 CITIES,(16, if you count Flin Flon...yes, there is a place called Flin Flon, there is also Moose Jaw and Saskatoon), and 145 towns.

LOTS of "ghost towns", a fair number of First Nation,(Native), reserves. Right around 195 reserves.

Seems it's just too stankin' cold and arid for the whites , so they shoved many of the plains peoples into the parts of Saskatchewan that they weren't planting rye on. And a lot of plains people got forced north from what is now USA plains land.

The only good Indian is a frozen one, ya know.

But anyway.

Saskatchewan is bigger than Washington, Oregon, and part of California combined.

It is desert and prairie and forest, it is a place of extremes; the hottest temps in summer in the 90's to 100's,(I corrected all that C stuff to F stuff, since my 5 followers are from USA...), and the high daytime temps in winter are around 2 degrees,(F again)..... The hottest temp ever recorded in Canada was in Saskatchewan, and so was the coldest. There is no ocean or major lake or major mountain range to temper the climates much.

I say climates, because Saskatchewan stretches from the sub-arctic to the top of Montana and North Dakota.

It can get very windy here, especially on the dune-lands.

But, just as the desert is beautiful, just as the deep forest is wild and serene, this is so of Saskatchewan.

It's well worth freezing one's katookies off to be here.