North of Regina, heading toward Saskatoon... zipping by fields of blue flax seed.
North of Regina, heading toward Saskatoon zipping by fields of yellow rape seed (Canola).
Wanuskewin Heritage Park, just north of Saskatoon. It is an aboriginally managed cultural park containing a buffalo jump, tipi rings and a medicine wheel.
Statue in front of the museum entrance of a woman scaring the buffalo in order to change direction (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Statue in front of the museum entrance. The buffalo the woman was scaring as they go stampeding toward the ravine (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Buffalo jump along the Saskatchewan River at Wanuskewin.
Flowers.
Tipis set up at the park (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Some sort of a rodent that scurried past us on the trail. It looked like a ferret.
A tipi ring, mowed and marked for visibility (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Wildflowers.
A storm coming?
The mosquitos were attacking us like crazy. I caught one flying around in this picture.. it's huge - and painful.
Info on the Buffalo jump. Read it.
Rain in the distance.
The Medicine Wheel, mowed for visibility.
Information about medicine wheels. Read it.
Hello.
A neighboring farm.
A tipi in the reconstructed area.
Some sort of a praire dog.
Gas sold at a bar. Cool.
The view of the Saskatchewan River from my hotel.
The welcome reception. Archaeologists (especially Canadian archaeologists) like beer (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Big fields. Big sky.
The homestead site to be surveyed with house cellar depressions and evidence of walls.
Before we survey, we removed much of the metal (after recording the location, of course!)
Members of the workshop getting ready to survey (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Green grass, people and big clouds.
Green, Yellow, Blue and White... and a pile of rocks.
Big Sky again.
Ok, so there wasn't much to take pictures of.
A picture of the only tree - we used it as a datum.
Resistivity (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Thistle.
Hello again.
The view for the day.
Doing a little magnetic walking (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Getting things prepared (photo by Ken Kvamme).
A tea pot.
The rise is a former structure location. The tea pot is a former water receptacle.
EM38 and me, we make a pair, as anyone can see (photo by Ken Kvamme).
More members of the workshop (photo by Ken Kvamme).
Pulling the radar antenna. The cows are getting curious.
Cows..
Very curious cows..
In the classroom.
McKinnon Ave. Yes, it is named after me.
Heading back to Regina.. this one was so good with the colors so we stopped on the highway to get the picture.
Sun setting behind this grain mill in Chamberlain, SK.. a stop for a drink on the way back to Regina.
Trucks coming south on Route 12 toward Regina.
Twisted Sisters Snack Shop - but of course!
