Being a Good Parent

This crow was keeping an eye on me while gardening at Alex's office. 

Whenever I moved towards the big spruce tree on the corner this good parent would move in a little closer and let out a "caw-caw-caw" as a warning that I was getting too close to the nest.  

Photographed in Medicine Hat, Alberta on May 21, 2022.

Ingebrigt S.D. No. 2896

Ingebrigt School is near Fox Valley, Saskatchewan.

I stopped here in the summer of 2021 when road repairs were being undertaken.  The foremost thought in my head was "are they going to knock down the old school in order to improve the road?"

Thank goodness the answer to my concern was "no."  Although, they did get awfully close...within just a few feet of the front steps.

Safe for the time being.

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Ingebrigt School

Photographed on November 5, 2021.

Bone Creek S.D. No. 646

An abandoned one-room schoolhouse north of Stone, Saskatchewan.

Traces of the original creamy-yellow paint with minty-green trim can be seen in this photo.

Someone cuts the grass in the schoolyard.

The view from the road.

Photographed on May 11, 2021.

Elena

A wedding photograph...

...mounted on a handsome grave marker for a young wife and mother.

Photographed in Saint Mary's Romanian Orthodox Cemetery near Kayville, Saskatchewan on May 26, 2022.

New Summer Coat

Bison always look pretty ragged when shedding their thick winter coats.  Won't be long now and they'll have new (and much lighter) summer coats.

Photographed near Frenchville, Saskatchewan on May 24, 2022.