Day 176 -- thinking of home

Been thinking of Saskatchewan today -- a bit of home. The photo on my calendar for this month shows the landscape with fields in bloom -- the front is huge fields of lavender blue flax with sun yellow canola in the background. So gorgeous. It is relaxing to look at this picture.

I've lived in many cities -- Yorkton, Regina, Moose Jaw, Swift Current, and Saskatoon, and worked and visited many more cities and towns north to south and east to west. I miss the sound of the prairie. I surely miss the sky -- "where the skies are bigger than anywhere else" as Connie Kaldor has sung -- and with that immense sky comes the ability to see forever. I've stood on a bluff in southern SK near the US border and looked out into the states, where a US flag was flying on a flagpole; it was 80 km (50 miles) away. The dry air makes seeing long distances possible. I can feel so claustrophobic around trees and hills. They are gorgeous but I can't see and the sky is just a patch above my head. Watching storms travel across the land was something I did from when I was a toddler. Where I live now, the sky is noticeably darker about 10-15 minutes before the snow or rain showers begin.

So -- today I share with you a song that talks about my home town -- Moose Jaw, and others where I have lived or visited. The video shows a number of great photos of the city -- all familiar and close to my last SK home. Enjoy!

Running Back to Saskatoon -- The Guess Who