Hey Everyone, welcome back to Coffee Talk/Snapshot Saturday.
It has been a week since I wrote a blog post and I apologize. Life here in Saskatchewan has been kind of busy getting my mom ready to move to a personnel care community.
It has been a while since we moved and I forgot just how many places one needs to change their address with. If I wasn’t standing in line this week I was certainly on hold listening to elevator music after listening to the menus and pressing the appropriate numbers to get to the department and person who could help me.
The joys of moving! One good thing though is that I am in my home province which is Saskatchewan. This is the province of wide open spaces, huge skies, wheat fields and being able to see for miles and miles and miles. The saying on their license plates is “Land of the Living Skies”.
The other day I picked Michael up from the airport and as we were driving down the highway towards home he stated that he had forgotten just how flat it is here. I guess for me it is never a surprise since I grew up looking at this landscape but for Michael who grew up in Ontario it is vastly different.
Michael snapped a couple of shots from the car window. Not bad for an iPhone in a moving vehicle. The top image is of us driving down the very straight highway. A road cannot get much straighter than this. The clouds in the sky were awesome. I have to say the skies have been fantastic since being back with multiple storms creating some amazing clouds and colour.
This photo that I will end with is of a Saskatchewan icon – the grain elevator. There are very few of the original wooden elevators left – the ones that every town along the railroad had. Nowadays they have been replaced with big huge terminals made of concrete – I guess a new sort of icon but just not quite the same.
Grain Elevator
Maybe I’ll get out in the next week and take a few more photos of my own of this great province where I grew up. There really is some great inspiration here for some amazing quilts.
Happy Quilting
Having been brought up in England, lived for many years in Ontario, both beautiful, I do love the Saskatchewan “Land of Living Skies”. I can’t wait to see the quilts inspired by your original home. Have you had time to visit quilt shops?
Hi Marnie,
I don’t think she was here one day before she hit her favourite quilt shop on Regina!
Haha, I was here almost a week before I went to the Peach Tree in Regina. A wonderful shop I might add.
LOL – It is always a stop when I visit my son and family in Regina.
Have you been to Moose Jaw yet? Shhh
No Marnie, I haven’t been to Moose Jaw yet.
Shop there all the time and if you can get toMoose Jaw there are 2 great shops there. The Quilt Patch gals are pattern designers and have written several books now. Quilters Haven is a neat shop that also carries patterns from another local. Chi chi has great flower patterns. Most of which there are samples in the shop. Both shops teach classes as well. Moose Jaw has a quilt show in Crescent Park every year with quilts hung in the trees. Moose Jaw is a great place if you can get there before you leave. The Spa calls regularl.
Marilynne, I usually go to the Quilt Patch and I see them when they are at CreativFest in Toronto, spring and fall. One of the owners is originally from Weyburn, my home town. Have not been to Quilter’s Haven I don’t think.
We passed through Saskatchewan Wednesday and Thursday. Stayed in Foam Lake which has a nice little quilt store. Got there at 5 to 5 so it was a quick shop. Didn’t want to be one of “those” customers! Can’t fit much on a motorbike, anyways….
Sally that’s too bad that your stop was so quick but at least you were able to stop. I guess there wouldn’t be much room for fabric on a motorbike.
Hi Jen
While you’re home, you should spend a couple of days and head North of Saskatoon and Prince Albert. There, we have lots of trees, bush, rolling hills and lakes – not so much of the typical flat prairie landscape from the southern half. We enjoy such a wide diversity in this wonderful province. Enjoy your stay at home.
Bonnie, I wish we had time to take a trip up that way as it is so different geography wise to this part of the province. Sask is a very diverse place which is great. Have a great Canada Day.