White beauty
When the clouds roll in
Fancy silo with stairs
The Famous Five from a distance
A sky filled with clouds
Rolling hills and distant peaks
Soothing simplicity
Clouds, reflected
Old barn in winter
An old barn in winter
A little eye-catcher
Lapland Longspur? No, a female Red-winged Blackbi…
One of my favourite barns
Meadow Vole for a tasty snack
Lying on a bed of hoarfrost
Stubble pattern
Rural decay
Old house next to metal silo
New "barn", Granary Road
A sunrise sky that lasted till sunset
Under a Chinook arch
King of silos
Two male Snowy Owls in the same field
You never know where you'll see a Snowy Owl
Before winter arrived
A white world
Prairie life in winter
When the world turns white
summer stubble
Disappearing into nothingness
Hoar frost tree and vanishing fields
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
A frosty prairie view
Fields of golden stubble
Layers and stripes
Stubble, Dow Road
Here comes the rain
Five Swans a-swimming
The olden days
Springtime on the prairie
Trumpeter Swans
The day before Christmas
Follow the lines
Sunrise over the mountains
Stripes
Sunrise pink
Zoomed to the max
Gray Partridge
Some white patches have eyes : )
An early Christmas present, 2013
Gray Partridge
Old prairie homestead
The beauty of golden stubble
Old and new on the prairies
A beautiful setting
Wide open spaces that go on forever
Stripes of colour
Fun in the sun
Christmas Eve day on the prairies
Barns
The Old Metal Barn
Windbreak, Woodlot
Light through the storm clouds
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As you might guess, this photo is being posted only for the record, not for its technical merit! Though it might look rather like a large lump of snow or a discarded plastic bag that has blown into the farmer's field, this really was a Snowy Owl, lol. Taken at full zoom (48x) then cropped, I really don't know how my daughter spotted the tiny white speck way off in the distance. We were both so happy to at least see a Snowy Owl yesterday, 21 December 2015, even though we had hoped to find a much closer one.
Finding a Snowy was not the only purpose in our minds, though - and thank goodness, last year, my daughter and I did see and photograph beautiful Snowies that were nice and close. Yesterday was our Christmas get-together, and we had a great day, in beautiful sunshine and in one of my favourite areas to explore. We had first planned to go NE of the city, but my daughter, waiting for her surgery on 11 January 2016, didn't feel up to travelling that far. Once she has recovered from her surgery, we can always go NE of the city and try for owls again.
So, plans changed and instead, we went to the Saskatoon Farm for breakfast. Afterwards, we then went a bit further, to drive some of the roads east of High River, hoping to possibly find a Snowy Owl. We went as far as Mossleigh, where we stopped to take a few quick photos of the three grain elevators and then found a group of several old barns that I don't remember seeing before. They were off the main road, but fortunately the narrow gravel road had enough snow packed on it that the drive was very smooth. From there, we also stopped at the little wooden church at Dinton, seen in my next photo.
Later in the afternoon, we couldn't resist the temptation to call in at Glamorgan Bakery on the way home and buy a few Christmas goodies, followed by a desperately needed food shopping trip. I just hadn't had a chance to go grocery shopping and had run out of even basic things. This was a huge relief, especially as I have a very long day tomorrow, taking part in the Drumheller area Christmas Bird Count. Actually, last year, we saw several Snowy Owls on the long drive to and from the Badlands of Alberta, so maybe I'll be lucky tomorrow.
Thanks so much for a great day out, Rachel. The best kind of day, as far as I am concerned : ) Many thanks, too, for the beautiful, very carefully chosen (as always!) Christmas gifts. Love the owl that looks rather like a furry, stuffed children's toy, that is in fact a wonderful heat pad (that you warm in the microwave), full of lavender. Haven't used it yet, but it will feel wonderful on my neck and shoulders that are painful from whiplash, thanks to the woman driver who suddenly came out of a parking lot exit and cut across my lane of moving traffic about three weeks ago! Nothing I could do, as I couldn't stop in time to avoid impact. So, I'm looking forward to having an owl on my shoulder : )
Finding a Snowy was not the only purpose in our minds, though - and thank goodness, last year, my daughter and I did see and photograph beautiful Snowies that were nice and close. Yesterday was our Christmas get-together, and we had a great day, in beautiful sunshine and in one of my favourite areas to explore. We had first planned to go NE of the city, but my daughter, waiting for her surgery on 11 January 2016, didn't feel up to travelling that far. Once she has recovered from her surgery, we can always go NE of the city and try for owls again.
So, plans changed and instead, we went to the Saskatoon Farm for breakfast. Afterwards, we then went a bit further, to drive some of the roads east of High River, hoping to possibly find a Snowy Owl. We went as far as Mossleigh, where we stopped to take a few quick photos of the three grain elevators and then found a group of several old barns that I don't remember seeing before. They were off the main road, but fortunately the narrow gravel road had enough snow packed on it that the drive was very smooth. From there, we also stopped at the little wooden church at Dinton, seen in my next photo.
Later in the afternoon, we couldn't resist the temptation to call in at Glamorgan Bakery on the way home and buy a few Christmas goodies, followed by a desperately needed food shopping trip. I just hadn't had a chance to go grocery shopping and had run out of even basic things. This was a huge relief, especially as I have a very long day tomorrow, taking part in the Drumheller area Christmas Bird Count. Actually, last year, we saw several Snowy Owls on the long drive to and from the Badlands of Alberta, so maybe I'll be lucky tomorrow.
Thanks so much for a great day out, Rachel. The best kind of day, as far as I am concerned : ) Many thanks, too, for the beautiful, very carefully chosen (as always!) Christmas gifts. Love the owl that looks rather like a furry, stuffed children's toy, that is in fact a wonderful heat pad (that you warm in the microwave), full of lavender. Haven't used it yet, but it will feel wonderful on my neck and shoulders that are painful from whiplash, thanks to the woman driver who suddenly came out of a parking lot exit and cut across my lane of moving traffic about three weeks ago! Nothing I could do, as I couldn't stop in time to avoid impact. So, I'm looking forward to having an owl on my shoulder : )
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