Fields near Fiske, SK
After three straight days of packing, we were on the road this morning, driving to Bickleigh to meet with Peter Halladay. He is visiting here from Australia, and we wanted to meet him. We will visit him again when we go to Australia this fall.
Despite the negative image that outsiders have of Saskatchewan, the drive through the country was beautiful. The country is a multitude of shades of green, interspersed with the golden yellow of canola in bloom. Ditches are purple with alfalfa. The light green of lentils contrasts with the dark green of more traditional crops like wheat. Dark leaved cottonwoods rim the sloughs. Grasses are topped with golden brown seed.
It is not hard to tell that it has been wet this year. The roads were rutted and soft, but even more obvious, the Bad Hills are green, and Bad Lake is full to the brim.