Facing north from the south end of Slocan Lake, BC. Valhalla Provincial Park runs along the left (west) side of the lake.
Looking west from Medicine Hat, Alberta on a beautiful summer evening.
Somewhere along the southern route to BC from the east… along Hwy 13 (SK) / PR 501 (AB) between Govenlock SK and Manyberries AB. We try to go this way now - no traffic, and always the huge beautiful Prairie sky.
Same road… no fences, no ditch, no traffic. Just cattle… and that SKY.
One of the thousands of near ghost towns on the Prairies - home of NHL’er Patrick Marleau.
possibly Consul SK… looks like someone is starting a museum here
Some photos from a late 1970’s spring trip down the Birdtail River in western Manitoba.
Multiple class 2 to 4 rapids sections, freezing water, dangerous sweepers and thick brush along the overtopped banks made this a challenging trip, which we completed every year for six years in a row until work and family obligations intervened.
And who says you need a canoe! The cartop aluminum boat with makeshift ‘steering oar’ just fine.
A few photos of the “Covid Projects” completed in the last year…
underside of marble table - cherry wood
Sloping headboard made from cedar - sanded and treated with linseed oil.
Shadow Box style picture frame - cheap fir stained and varathaned - no screws, only glue
marble coffee table with cherry angled legs
Surplus ends, cut with 60 deg. angles so as to make a circular 6 sided planter base. No screws, just glue… I made a half a dozen of them.
Another marble table with tapered cherry legs - sanded and linseed oiled
“End of Bed” bench. Dark strip is reclaimed 75 year old cedar… the rest is new cedar. Finish - boiled linseed oil.
Planter boxes to add more garden space in the small back yard. Cedar from local “Enderby Cedar’ folks.
Sloping headboard - cedar finished with linseed oil… and a few of Lorraine’s very first acrylic paintings