A Drive in the Country

There is a barn about a mile away that had both gable ends blown out by a tornado.  It is quite the interesting sight.  It looks like a frame and you can see clear through it.  My friend and I decided to take a drive to get a closer look but someone lives there so we just went for a country drive.

These are pictures of the Neville Cemetery.  It isn't terribly old but is a typical country cemetery in Saskatchewan.

After walking around and reading headstones we continued south toward hills and ravines.

One of the ladies in town has a secret fishing hole somewhere west of here, so we took the next road west.

If you are familiar with the Canadian prairies, you would know that every two miles East/West there is a road and every mile North/South is a road.  It is completely a grid and impossible to get lost.

We drove a couple of miles west and the road became less used until we got to a spot that was way too muddy for me to drive through.  It would be a long walk to get someone to pull us out.

But this is where the stream was.  We found it.  A nice little quiet stream winding through the little hills and grasses.

What a coup!  We also found lots of farmer's rock piles that we could take rocks for my friend's garden.  A rock pile is where the farmer piles rocks that are taken off the land so the crop grows better and the machinery gets through better.

Then we headed home on another grid road with new views.  We were certain that if we had been one day earlier the road would have been too muddy to be passable.  With the warm, windy spring weather it had dried enough to use.

All in all, a nice afternoon on the land.