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| FTLComm - Tisdale & Regina - April 6, 2005 Images by Timothy and Matthew Shire | |||||||||
Spring is a big deal in country where winter is even a bigger deal. This year we have put together 94 pictures that tell our story of the coming of spring. We have a few days before the mosquitoes show up and it will not be long until the grass starts to turn green and before we know it there will be leaves on the trees. The is a kind of magic to it all and you would have to be close to death not to notice the change it makes in everything. |
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| March 23rd Regina's resident geese are standing on Wascana Lake East of the Legislature building | March 24, leaving Wawota going North on the muddy grid road toward Kelso | March 24, Wawota grid and the Pipestone valley | The Pipestone valley North of Wawota March 24th | ||||||
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| March 24th on the Wawota grid a eagle feeding on a kill did not get in this frame but nests in the area | Reggie Fisk's farm North of Kelso, march 24th | March 24, a different view of Reggie Fisk's farm with snow in the fields | The Greenbank farm on the North side of Kelso | ||||||
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| March 24th looking south on the Wawota grid across the Pipestone | March 25th water starting to form in Tisdale in front of the Anglican Church | March 25th the streets in downtown Tisdale a free of snow | Sunday, March 27 on highway #6 between Watson and Raymore | ||||||
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| March 27th, the marvels of the drifted snow on the prairie north of Regina really told of a difficult winter. | March 27th, this is not an optical illusion the picture was taken from the highway with a telephoto lens showing the huge snow drifts along the highway. | Sunday March 27, heading west from Regina on highway #1 the snow just faded away as we moved west of Moose Jaw. This scene was somewhere east of Chaplain. | To the south a serious looking cloud formation swept over the country south of Chaplan and the salt flat south of the highway. | ||||||
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| Though still serious looking the sky over Morse was a bit in tatters early afternoon Sunday March 27 | Tuesday, March 29, just north of Tisdale one of the first crows I had seen this far north passec over the van and glided toward the Doghide. | Marh 29, though the snow was gone in Swift Current our yard still had loads of the stuff for the sun to decorate with shadows | March 29, this is our back yard and each day the sun was settling the snow that had been knee deep on the back lawn and garden. | ||||||
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| March 29, there was plenty of evidence that March had come in and gone out like a lamb. Certainly the sunlight in Tisdale made it seem that this was the case. | A neighbour's back yard began to flood on March 30 and it was time to get out the pump. | March 30 Mr. Tree was busy working on the elm trees in an ongoing effort to control Dutch Elm disease. | March 30 as Mr. Tree attended to the elms the snow remained along the sides of main street. | ||||||
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| March 30th a few of the regular Tisdale population of Canada gees showed up along the frozen Doghide. | On April 1 the Doghide no longer was a frozen thing and began to flow. | April 1st morning though the sun was warm the wind and just above freezing temperatures meant that gloves were still a good idea. | April 1st the water really began to slip down our street heading north out of town. | ||||||
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| April 1st the snow was vanishing very quickly. | April 1, back alleys became little streams. | Down town April 1st the new town square was looking pretty good. | April 1st, Matthew snapped a few images of Regina which had suffered through a difficult winter. Snow fall had not been managed well and the streets and sidewalks had been ice bound since fall. | ||||||
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| Regina seemed to be handling the first day of April in stride. | April 1st on Victoria Ave. looking west from Broad street with Sask Power on the left and the Saskatchewan Hotel nest. | April 1st. Th north wall of the SaskPower building looks pretty aged in this picture. Though I remember it under construction it is a full fourty-three years old. | April 1st, Regina's gasoline prices lead the province in moving up to 94.9¢ a litre while here in Tisdale it was still at 86.9¢. | ||||||
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| April 1 thirteenth avenue in Regina. | April 1st traffic flowing over the Albert Street bridge with the lake soon to melt and flood in some areas. Regina residents are looking forward to the newly engineered lake and the area around it this centennial year. | April 2 the storm sewer system in Tisdale handled the run off easily. | April 2, I had expected more water from the snow and ice in the yards and back alleys. | ||||||
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