It is amazing how different the weather patterns are just 2.5 hours west of Regina, where I have lived most of my adult life. I have always heard and known that Swift Current was part of a semi-desert area and catches the edges of chinooks from Alberta … but it is the wind! The wind is almost constant. To have only a breeze is a day of celebration. This will explain why they have a bunch of wind turbines just a half hour further west.
The photo above was taken at the begining of November as my brother Leslie and I were driving back from visiting our Mom in Moose Jaw. The dust is actually clay particles blowing off a now-dry shallow lake bed. We had about a quarter mile visibility for about thirty minutes of driving time.
I am taking these pictures with my cell phone, so they are not quite as good as they could be. Take a look at these tumble weeds! It was incredible to see these dried-up weed balls blowing across the highway. Click on this link if you would like to see more photos.
Note: We had snow just before Thanksgiving … then it melted! We really only got snow again on Dec 1st. It seems more harvesting got done in November than in October!
GREAT photos, Kristin! How neat to see this!
I was wondering John … did we not see something similiar to those tumble weeds when we cleaned out the parsonage this summer?????
I hope that is not some type of veiled reference to my housekeeping skills as the last full-time occupant of the parsonage!!
Okay … there might have been a few remnant kitty litter sand (not the cat parts!!) pebbles that the vacum cleaner missed … but dust bunnies? Never!
And Mary … I chuckle to myself everytime I rinse out the kitchen sink and wipe it clean!
NO! NO! NO!
Dust had accumulated because the parsonage had sat vacant . . . silly girl! I was trying – obviously failed! – to imply how long it’s been since you were in our parsonage!
Mary: It is a good thing we opened that back door or those tumble weeds would have been shoulder high
Mary – I wonder what life experience caused me to jump to that conclusion!
(There! An emoticon just for you!!)