A Tourist Back Home

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Hello everyone. Yesterday was a day of unpacking and appreciating our own home town and area. I'm going to send a number of local pictures. It is time for our green grass to turn brown and crops to ripen and days to shorten into fall. We have had a cool front pass through leaving lingering showers and much cooler temperatures. Today it will be +18 C and tomorrow more sunshine and +21 C.

In contrast to some of the spectacular sights we have witnessed in the last two weeks, my pictures today will be rather dull to most. But we live in a treasured area, ceratinly not without its chalenges, but one of the choice areas in all the world. This fact is reinforced to us the more we travel. We appreciate everywhere we go and the fine people we meet. They become part of the fabric of our lives. But we do like home and the folks we know so well here!

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Photos

Our Main Street - Not NYC Broadway
It can be busier than seen here but very sedate compared with NYC.

The View of our 'Central Park'
Complete with open area, tennis courts, skateboard park and picnic and playground area.

Just a peek through our trees
Not Niagara-on-the-Lake stuff for sure!

Our 1994 Olds '88'
Not a Washington DC diplomatic limo but ...

Our garden and the garage behind
The heat here made it come along nicely.

The neglected cucumbers
These are 20 old ones, too ripe but many other good ones there

Our Wendy's Dairy Bar
Not the Wendy's of every city we see but a good place to get the best hamburger and milkshake.

The Flower garden beside the pharmacy.
A little moment of beauty on our dull street.

The United Church of Canada
Not St. Paul's Cathedral, but pretty.

An Irrigation Pivot
Keeping the crops growing well in this rather dry country.

Not the Erie Canal
But our irrigation canal that is the life-blood of our area.

More of that canal
Controls the flow of water.

The Sugar Beet Crop
watered with a wheel-move pipeline

Those granaries, John Deere Tractors, and clouds
All under a pretty blue sky.

Starting to cut the grain
For harvest !

A Freindly Grasshopper
On my windshield, this grasshopper looks like an invading space creature.

Highway 36
Not a Freeway, Throughway, or Turnpike but busy with travelers and truckers.

Sunrise Motel
Not the Hilton!

Shell Gasoline
About $4.00 per USA gallon

Livestock Grazing in good grass.
Good Alberta Beef

Not Our House
But one of the beautiful homes in our town.